WFNX /

WFNX is a New England commercial alternative rock radio station and Boston's only locally owned commercial radio station. Colloquially referred to as "FNX", the station began broadcasting on Monday, April 11, 1983. It was one of the first American commercial stations to play alternative rock and has become a leading radio station for breaking new alternative music. WFNX broadcasts on 101.7 MHz from the top of One Financial Center in downtown Boston and is also simulcast on two other New England radio stations, both broadcasting on 92.1 MHz: WFEX in Peterborough, New Hampshire (serving Manchester, NH) and WPHX-FM in Sanford, Maine (serving Portsmouth, NH and Portland, ME). WFNX is owned by the Phoenix Media/Communications Group and promoted as the broadcast cousin of the Boston Phoenix, the Boston area's long-running alternative media newspaper. 101.7FM 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. 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