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WFEA (1370 AM) is a radio station in Manchester, New Hampshire.
[edit] History
WFEA has been broadcasting continuously since 9:00 a.m. on March 1, 1932, making it New Hampshire's oldest radio station. It has always had the same call letters. During its long life, WFEA has had 10 owners. Knight Quality Stations owned the radio station from the late 1970s until 1991. Saga Communications of New England LLC has operated WFEA since April, 1991. Saga also operates 95.7 WZID FM and 96.5 WMLL FM, licensed to Manchester and Bedford, respectively.[1] Over the years, WFEA had a diversified format evolving into Top 40 in the early 1960s. The format evolved into more of a Hot AC format by the mid 1980's and a straight Adult Contemporary format by 1989. In 1990, the adult contemporary format was dropped in favor of a satellite delivered Adult Standards format.
[edit] Programming
WFEA employed an Adult Standards music format from 1990 until sometime in 2002. This included such artists as Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, The Carpenters, Peggy Lee, Barry Manilow, Nat "King" Cole, Dean Martin, Kenny Rogers, Connie Francis, The Lettermen, Neil Diamond, Elvis Presley, Jack Jones, Barbra Streisand, and others. The station played an occasional big band song as well. In 2002, the format focused less on adult standards artists and more on baby boomer pop artists. While the station still plays all the artists mentioned in this paragraph, some more softer songs by oldies type artists, Motown singers, and 70's soft rock artists are being played as much as the standards artists. Today, the station, though it is still referred to as "Adult Standards" by distributor Dial Global, sometimes sounds like many soft AC stations from the 1980s.
WFEA broadcasts the Manchester Wolves arena football league games, and the University of New Hampshire Sports Network covering football, volleyball, hockey, basketball, etc.
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