WCLX

WCLX
City Westport, New York
Broadcast area Champlain Valley Region
Branding Farm Fresh Radio
Frequency 102.9 MHz
First air date January 1995 (1995-01)[1]
Format Contemporary Hit Radio
ERP 6,000 watts
HAAT 92 meters (302 ft)
Class A
Facility ID 72034
Transmitter coordinates 44°13′14.00″N 73°24′35.00″W / 44.2205556°N 73.4097222°W / 44.2205556; -73.4097222
Former callsigns WVZP (1992)
WADQ (1992-1996)
WMEX (1996-1998)
Owner Sun Signals LLC
Sister stations WRIP, WQQQ, WMEX, WJZZ
Website www.farmfreshradio.com

WCLX (102.9 FM) is a radio station owned by Sun Signals LLC[2] located in Westport, New York, United States, serving the Champlain Valley region of central Vermont and the Burlington, Vermont market. WCLX programs contemporary hit music.

History

The station was granted the call letters WVZP on September 2, 1992; on October 1, the call letters were changed to WADQ (for "Adirondack"). The station signed on in January 1995.[1] On September 16, 1996, the station took on the call sign WMEX; during this time, the station had a classical music format, with the slogan "Where classic call letters mean great Classical Music." In the late 1990s, WMEX gradually morphed into Burlington's Album Station, adopting the present call letters on February 10, 1999 when owner Dennis Jackson relinquished the historic "WMEX" call letters to Boston's 1060 AM. The WMEX calls subsequently moved to New Hampshire and then to Martha's Vineyard; as of April 2017, the call letters are used by WMEX in Boston and WMEX-LP in Rochester, New Hampshire.[3]

From 1999 to September 2009, WCLX featured a Free-form FM Classic Album Rock format known as 'The Album Station', programmed by then-husband and wife team Diane Desmond and Russ Kinsley, who had also established several earlier versions of the format on a variety of Vermont stations throughout the 1980s. During their tenure at 102.9, WCLX focused on modern-day blues-influenced bands and progressive rock bands of the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Broadcasting & Cable Yearbook 2009 (PDF). 2009. p. D-392. Retrieved April 30, 2017.
  2. ↑ http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/sta_list.pl?Facility_id=72034 FCC FM query for WCLX Ownership
  3. ↑ http://www.fccinfo.com/CMDProFacLookup.php?calls=WMEX&tabSearchType=Historic+Call+Search>
  4. ↑ http://www.7dvt.com/2005/raised-radio Seven Days article "Raised Radio"
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