Radio WSMN-AM (Nashua's News & Talk)

WSMN (1590 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a news/talk format. Licensed to Nashua, New Hampshire, USA, the station serves the Manchester area. The station is currently owned by Absolute Broadcasting LLC and features programing from Talk Radio Network and Westwood One.

WSMN signed on March 9, 1958. Original owner Merrimack Valley Broadcasting System sold the station only one year later, to 1590 Broadcasting Corporation. By 1971, WSMN had a middle-of-the-road format, mixed in with talk; this format remained in place through the decade.

During the mid-1990s, WSMN attempted a country music format; however, this format became less viable for the station after Boston country station WKLB-FM moved from 96.9 FM (now WTKK) to 99.5 FM (now WCRB), and it reverted to adult standards in December 1997. This was short lived; in March 1998, the station flipped to news/talk, though some timeslots were temporarily filled with adult contemporary music for a time. Initially locally-oriented, in June WSMN began adding nationally-produced programming, including Talk America shows and business news from Bloomberg Radio. Two years later, Tom O'Brien signed a local marketing agreement to take over the station's operations.

WSMN was forced off the air February 1, 2005 after losing the lease to its transmitter and studio site on West Hollis Street (Route 111). The license was sold to Absolute Broadcasting, owner of WSNH (900; now WGHM) that July, and the station returned to the air in October from the WSNH tower, running a low-power special temporary authority signal. Initially simulcasting WSNH's ESPN Radio programming, the station began shifting back to a news/talk format in early 2006.