WVMJ
adult contemporary hit radio station in Conway, New Hampshire, United States
WVMJ (104.5 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station broadcasting a CHR format, known as "Magic 104". Licensed to Conway, New Hampshire, the station serves the Mount Washington Valley of Northeast New Hampshire and the Sebago Lake Region of Maine. On weekends, it carries American Top 40 hosted by Ryan Seacrest, and syndicated by Premiere Networks.
The station is owned by Mt. Washington Radio & Gramophone, L.L.C. Programming is simulcast on FM translator station W251BD on 98.1 MHz in Berlin, New Hampshire.
History
Before the station was built, its construction permit was assigned the call sign WMLY on June 28, 1989. It took several years to sign-on but finally began broadcasting on October 23, 1995. It took the callsign WBNC-FM. As WBNC-FM, it aired a country music format simulcast with co-owned WBNC (1050 AM). On December 17, 2001, it changed callsigns to WVMJ. WVMJ changed formats to contemporary hit radio and its moniker to Magic 104 on December 26, 2001.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “WVMJ” as adult contemporary hit radio station in Conway, New Hampshire, United States. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7956900. Authority coordinates are 43.947, -71.140. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1989, 1995, 1050 and 2001.
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This entry incorporates text from “WVMJ” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.