WXEX (AM)
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| City of license | Exeter, New Hampshire |
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| Broadcast area | Seacoast Southern New Hampshire & Southern Maine. |
| Branding | Classic Rock 92.1 |
| Slogan | The radio station to listen to featuring the great hit Rock 'N Roll tunes from the late 60's through the 90's. |
| Frequency | 1540 kHz |
| First air date | 1966, current format March 2009 |
| Format | '60s, '70s, '80's, 90's Rock 'n' Roll |
| Power | 5,000 watts day 2,500 watts critical hours 3 watts night |
| Class | D |
| Facility ID | 53386 |
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| Callsign meaning | Greater Exeter area |
| Former callsigns | WKXR (1966-1982) WMYF (1982-1998) WGIP (1998-2009) |
| Owner | Aruba Capital Holdings, LLC (operated by Port Broadcasting LLC under a Local Marketing Agreement) |
| Sister stations | WXEX-FM |
| Website | WXEXradio.com |
WXEX (1540 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a 1960s, 1970s and 1980s rock 'n' roll plus Motown music format. It is licensed to Exeter, New Hampshire, USA, and covers the New Hampshire Seacoast region. The station's license was acquired locally by Andy Hartmann and Steve Thomas under the name of Aruba Capital Holdings, LLC.[1][2] The station currently simulcasts with WXEX-FM Sanford, Maine.
History
The AM 1540 frequency in Exeter went on the air in 1966 as WKXR under the ownership of Frank Estes, who also owned WKXL in Concord, New Hampshire.[3] Estes sold the station in 1978,[3] and on March 10, 1982, the station was renamed WMYF;[4] by the 1990s, the station held an adult standards format.[5]
In 1998, after Capstar acquired WMYF from CBS Radio[6] (which had obtained the station after its purchase of American Radio Systems[7]), the station began to simulcast the news/talk format of WGIR, a sister station in Manchester, New Hampshire;[8] a call change to WGIP followed on October 2.[4] The WMYF call letters would later be moved down the AM dial to 1380, where they remain today.
After WGIP was placed into the Aloha Station Trust in 2008 as a result of the privatization of Clear Channel Communications[9] (who acquired the station after several mergers), the station was sold to Aruba Capital Holdings, LLC in 2009.[10] After Aruba closed on the sale on March 9, 2009, the call letters were changed to WXEX[4] and the WGIR simulcast was discontinued.
In August 2011 the station entered into a simulcast of co-owned WXEX-FM Sanford, Maine.
On April 14, 2015 WXEX owner Aruba Holdings LLC entered into a local marketing agreement with WNBP/WWSF owner Port Broadcasting LLC whereby the latter assumed operational control of WXEX and WXEX-FM.
On August 20, 2015 WXEX and its FM sister station shifted their format from classic hits to classic rock, branded as "Classic Rock 92.1".[11]
On August 31, 2015 the WXEX stations merged with the Port Broadcasting stations and Garrison City Broadcasting's WTSN and WBYY to form Coastal Radio Partners, with Port Broadcasting assuming immediate oversight of all stations in the partnership.[12]
References
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- ↑ Local radio stations merge to form new broadcast group Judi Currie, Fosters Daily Democrat, August 31, 2015
External links
- Query the FCC's AM station database for WXEX
- Radio-Locator Information on WXEX
- Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WXEX
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