WQSO  WQSO (96.7 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Rochester, New Hampshire, United States. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. and airs a news/talk format serving the Portsmouth-Dover-Rochester media market which also includes part of Southern Maine. The transmitter is on Rochester Hill Road (New Hampshire Route 108) in Rochester. It has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 3,000 watts. WQSO broadcasts in the HD Radio hybrid format. The HD-2 subchannel carries an adult hits format known as "The River." Nearly all programming heard on WQSO comes from sister station WGIR in Manchester, New Hampshire. WQSO separates from WGIR for its own local commercials and some weekend paid brokered programming. Weekdays begin with a news and interview show, "New Hampshire Today", hosted by Jack Heath, also heard on several other stations in the state. The rest of the schedule consists of nationally syndicated shows, including "The Glenn Beck Program", "The Rush Limbaugh Show", "The Sean Hannity Show", "The Dave Ramsey Show", "Ground Zero Radio with Clyde Lewis", "Coast to Coast AM with George Noory" and "This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal". Weekend feature programs on money, health, law, technology and the "Paul Parent Garden Club", as well as best-of editions of weekday programming. Some weekend shows are paid brokered programming. Syndicated weekend shows include "The Tech Guy with Leo Laporte", "Sunday Night Live with Bill Cunningham" and "Somewhere in Time with Art Bell". Most hours begin with world and national news from Fox News Radio, followed by New Hampshire news from local reporters. WQSO is co-flagship of the Wildcat Sports Network along with sister stations 930 WPKX and 610 WGIR. The network airs college football, hockey and basketball from the University of New Hampshire. On October 29, 1979, the station signed on as WWNH-FM. It changed its call sign to WXKZ in 1983, to WCYT in 1986, to WKOS-FM on December 18, 1987, to WWEM on December 17, 1990. In March 1994, the station adjusted its format slightly from adult contemporary to "The Perfect Mix of Soft Rock", playing soft rock and Americana music. The call sign was changed to WSRI on April 3, 1995, coinciding with a format flip to adult album alternative.