Large Transport; Low Wing; 2 Turbojet Eng
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Workload; Time Pressure; Distraction; Communication Breakdown
No Specific Anomaly Occurred All Types
General None Reported / Taken
ATC Equipment / Nav Facility / Buildings
Since MHT does not have a digital ATIS; you have to get the ATIS on the ATIS frequency of 119.55. MHT shares this frequency with an ATC Tower; which sounded like TEB. With all the communication that the Tower was doing with the aircraft using that very busy airport I; as PM; was off the Number 1 radio for over five minutes in order for me to get the complete ATIS. The only alternative was for me to delay getting the ATIS until I was less than 100 miles from MHT as that was when the interference from the ATC Tower ended.
An air carrier Captain descending into MHT reported an airport Tower; possibly TEB; interfering with ATIS on 119.5 when the aircraft is further than 100 NM from MHT.