WNIR

WNIR - branded WNIR 100 FM - is a commercial FM talk radio station. WNIR is licensed to Kent, Ohio, and serves the Akron metro area. Owned by Media-Com, Inc., the station airs mostly local shows in the day and evening, while carrying nationally syndicated personalities Jim Bohannon and Mike Gallagher at night. The WNIR studios are in Franklin Township, while the station transmitter is located on Holiday Drive near Interstate 76 in Brimfield. In addition to a standard analog transmission, WNIR is available online.HistoryThe station first signed on the air on February 19, 1962, as WKNT-FM. It shared its call letters with its sister station AM 1520 WKNT (now WJMP) which signed on two years later, and most programming was simulcast on both stations. The stations were owned by the publisher of the Kent Ravenna Record-Courier newspaper and primarily served the Portage County area with an adult contemporary radio format.