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WFNX was an alternative rock radio station in Boston, Massachusetts, that operated as a commercial broadcast radio station from 1983 until July 24, 2012, and as an internet-only stream from October 30, 2012 to March 19, 2013. WFNX was owned by the Phoenix Media/Communications Group and was promoted as the broadcast cousin of the ''Boston Phoenix'', the Boston area's former alternative media newspaper. The station ceased broadcast following the shutting down of the ''Boston Phoenix'' the previous week. WFNX broadcast on 101.7 MHz from atop One Financial Center in downtown Boston, and simulcast on WFEX in Peterborough, New Hampshire at 92.1 MHz. Phoenix Media sold the rights to the 101.7 frequency to Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia), which turned it into an "Adult Hits" format under the call letters WHBA; the frequency is now occupied by country music station WBWL. Phoenix Media also sold the 92.1 frequency in Peterborough to Blount Communications Group, which uses it to simulcast WDER, a Christian music radio station.〔(Blount Communications list of stations )〕 The WFNX call letters are now used by a radio station in Athol. ==History== 101.7 FM began as the FM outfit of WLYN in November 1947. WLYN-FM for years simulcast WLYN during the day and had its own programming after the AM signed off at sunset.〔(Boston Phoenix: WFNX 1983-2012 )〕 By the late 1970s, WLYN-FM had begun broadcasting ethnic programming in the midday hours, with drive times still simulcast with the AM. In 1981, WLYN-FM began broadcasting a nighttime block of new wave music, which eventually became a 24/7 alternative music format in 1982, known as Y102. The midday ethnic programs were moved to the AM where they continue to air to the present day. In the spring of 1983, WLYN-FM was sold to the Phoenix Media/Communications Group. On April 11, 1983, WFNX's first Program/ Operations Director and morning drive DJ, Judith Brackley, signed the new station on the air. WLYN-FM became WFNX, and Brackley and her air staff gradually changed the format from the classic rock of the previous owners to an eclectic alternative/progressive format that included new wave, "deep cuts", British punk, and a sprinkling of jazz and reggae. The first song on WFNX was "Let's Go to Bed" by The Cure. It was one of the first American commercial stations to play alternative rock as a full-time format. At 7 pm on August 29, 1991, WFNX DJ Kurt St. Thomas gave Nirvana's album ''Nevermind'' its world premiere by playing the album from start to finish.〔(This Day In Music -29 August 1991 ) Guardian.co.uk〕 Nirvana's 1993 ''Nevermind It's an Interview'' limited-edition promotional release on Geffen Records was produced and engineered at the station by Kurt St. Thomas and Troy Smith. The original interview sessions were recorded by St. Thomas the night of Nirvana's first appearance on NBC's ''Saturday Night Live'' in 1992. The station sponsored a free Green Day concert at the Hatch Memorial Shell in Boston on September 9, 1994. An estimated 70,000 to 100,000 showed up, which WFNX, the Metropolitan District Commission and the Massachusetts State Police were not prepared for. The concert ended 20 minutes into Green Day's set when the crowd became uncontrollable, leaving 100 people injured, 24 of whom were sent to local hospitals, and 31 were arrested.〔(The 40 greatest concerts in Boston history: 6 ) ''The Boston Phoenix''〕〔(Green Day Riot ) CelebrateBoston.com〕 WFNX has a long history of breaking new bands,〔 and being the first in the country to play artists such as Nirvana, The Killers, Franz Ferdinand, Florence and the Machine, Foster the People, Mumford and Sons, and many more. WFNX became the first commercial radio station to broadcast Allen Ginsberg's ''Howl'' on Friday, July 18, 1997 despite U.S. Federal Communications Commission Safe Harbor laws. Beginning in 1998, it had a translator, W267AI on 101.3, to broadcast to the downtown Boston area on account of WFNX's weak signal there prior to the 2006 upgrade. Following the transmitter move and signal upgrade, W267AI was taken off the air. Simulcasting on another 92.1 MHz station, WPHX-FM in Sanford, Maine, ended in August 2011. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WFNX」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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