The 106.3 allocation in Nashua was originally assigned to
WOTW-FM, which went on the air in March 1948, lost its license in 1977, and continued operating under an interim operator from 1978 to June 30, 1985. After the revocation of the licenses for WOTW-FM and
WOTW (900 AM) and a nine-year licensing process, Gateway Broadcasting Associates was granted authority to build a new FM station in 1986; Gateway, controlled by Mario DiCarlo, selected the
call sign WHOB in reference to the station's
honey bee logo, which was intended to symbolize that it would be "an industrious station". Following several delays, WHOB signed on at 6a.m. on October 19, 1987. In its early years, WHOB primarily focused on the Nashua area, and had shifted to
hot adult contemporary by 1999, when DiCarlo retired and sold WHOB to Tele-Media. Tele-Media sold WHOB, along with
WNNH in
Henniker and
WLKZ in
Wolfeboro, to
Nassau Broadcasting Partners in 2004. Nassau dropped the hot AC format in favor of the "
Frank FM"
classic hits format (the second Nassau station, after
WFNK in
Lewiston, Maine, to do so) and the WFNQ callsign on March 17, 2005. The station, along with 16 other Nassau stations in northern New England, was purchased at bankruptcy auction by WBIN Media Company, a company controlled by
Bill Binnie, on May 22, 2012. Binnie already owned
WBIN-TV in
Derry and
WYCN-LP in Nashua. The deal was completed on November 30, 2012. On June 1, 2015, WFNQ shifted its format to
classic rock. It switched back to classic hits in 2018. On April 1, 2019, WNNH in Henniker began simulcasting WFNQ, bringing the station's programming to areas north and west of Manchester, including Concord. On May 24, 2019,
WLNH-FM in
Laconia and
WBYY in
Somersworth began carrying WFNQ's programming, but with separate advertising, forming a regional network. The "Frank FM" network transitioned to a hot adult contemporary format during 2021; during this transition, on September 3, 2021, WNNH left the network and launched its own
active rock format. After morning host Marc Nazzaro (who used the air name "DJ Nazzy") was laid off from "Frank FM" in January 2023 as part of a refocus of Binnie Media's resources on its
news and talk programming, vice president of programming Heath Cole told the
Concord Monitor that "the music format that we do will change". On February 1, 2023, WFNQ, along with the rest of the "Frank FM" network, again returned to a classic hits format; the stations also dropped their remaining on-air staff, who were reassigned to other positions within the company. ==HD Radio==