WBNW is a business talk radio

Talk radio

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 station

Radio station

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 in the Boston market. The station is owned by Money Matters Radio, Inc. and is licensed to Concord, Massachusetts

Concord, Massachusetts

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. It is simulcast on sister station WESO

WESO

WESO is a radio station broadcasting a Business Talk/Lifestyle Talk format, simulcasting sister station WBNW in Concord, Massachusetts. It previously broadcast a country music format as "The Spirit 970" until October 2008. Licensed to Southbridge, Massachusetts, USA, the station serves the...

 in nearby Southbridge, Massachusetts

Southbridge, Massachusetts

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Its flagship program, Money Matters with Barry Armstrong, is syndicated to several other stations in the Eastern United States

Eastern United States

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 through the Money Matters Radio Network.

History

The station first took to the air as WADN in 1989 with a folk music

Folk music

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 format. The format was relocated to weekends at the end of 1996 in the wake of the previous WBNW

WEZE

WEZE is an AM radio station in Boston, Massachusetts on 590 kHz. The station is owned by Salem Communications and airs Religious programming.- History :...

dropping business (with such programming beginning to air through 1120 on weekdays at that time) before being cancelled in April 1997. However, the station did not take the WBNW call letters until 1998, when Money Matters Radio, Inc. bought the station.