WMTK

WMTK

City of license	Littleton, New Hampshire
Broadcast area	Northeast Kingdom/Grafton County, New Hampshire
Branding	106.3 The Notch
Frequency	106.3 MHz
First air date	February 23, 1985
Format	Classic Hits
ERP	390 watts
HAAT	383 meters
Class	A
Facility ID	72212
Owner	Vermont Broadcast Associates, Inc.
Webcast	The Notch 106.3 On-Line!
Website	106.3 The Notch

WMTK (on air as 106.3 The Notch) is a classic hits formatted station located in northern New Hampshire. It is co-owned with WSTJ, WKXH, WGMT and WQJQ.

WMTK is the first local commercial FM station to sign on in the North Country of New Hampshire and Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. The station signed on with a country music format, a local morning show, with local news and weather inserted throughout the day. The satellite country music service came from Transtar, which eventually became Unistar and is now part of Dial Global. The station was never owned with Littleton's first radio station, WLTN, so Littleton had two stand-alone radio stations at the time. WMTK was known initially as "K 106.3", though over time became known as 106.3 WMTK. The studios were located at historic Thayer's Inn on Main Street.

As a Class A signal with a very high antenna location on the Manns Hill WLED-TV tower, WMTK has a coverage area that extends well beyond the Littleton area.

For years, WMTK used to compete with St. Johnsbury's WNKV 105.5 FM for both advertisers and listeners. When WMTK and WNKV (now WKXH Kix 105.5) came under common ownership (VBA), WMTK was flipped to a broad-based classic rock/classic hits variant that is still being programmed today. While still transmitting from Mann's Hill in Littleton, the studios were consolidated in the VBA broadcast building co-located with the WKXH and WSTJ studios on Concord Avenue in St. Johnsbury when Thayer's Inn needed the studio space for hotel purposes. The WMTK website is www.notchfm.com and they can be found on Facebook via 106.3 The Notch.

External links

Query the FCC's FM station database for WMTK

Radio-Locator information on WMTK

Radio stations in the Northeast Kingdom/Northern New Hampshire market

By AM frequency	1230 1340 1400 1490 1490

By FM frequency	88.5 90.5 91.5 92.1 93.7 94.9 95.7 96.1 96.7 97.1 97.7 99.1 100.3 101.3 101.9 102.3 103.7 105.5 106.3 106.9 107.1

By callsign	W270BR WCKJ WDOT WEVC WGMT WHOM WJSY-LP WIKE WKDR WKXH WLTN WLTN-FM WMOO WMOU WMTK WNYN-FM WOTX WOXX WPKQ WQJQ WSTJ WVPA WVTI WWLR WXXS WYKR-FM

Defunct	WAOT-LP (98.3 FM)

Vermont radio markets Burlington Montpelier–Barre–St. Johnsbury Rutland–White River Junction Other Vermont radio regions Northeast Kingdom New Hampshire radio markets Concord (Lakes Region) Lebanon Manchester Portsmouth–Dover–Rochester Other New Hampshire radio regions Northern New Hampshire See also List of radio stations in Vermont List of radio stations in New Hampshire Portland Radio Sherbrooke / Estrie Radio

Coordinates: 44°21′14″N 71°44′20″W / 44.354°N 71.739°W / 44.354; -71.739

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