WFXO

WFXO
City Stewartville, Alabama
Broadcast area Sylacauga, Alabama
Branding 98.3 Fox FM
Slogan The Greatest Hits Of All Time
Frequency 98.3 MHz (also on HD Radio)
Translator(s) 106.5 W293CQ (Sylacauga, relays HD2)
First air date 1959
Format Classic hits
HD2: Classic hits "Yea! 106.5"
ERP 2,700 watts
HAAT 151 meters (495 feet)
Class A
Facility ID 704
Transmitter coordinates 33°04′20″N 86°10′08″W / 33.07222°N 86.16889°W / 33.07222; -86.16889Coordinates: 33°04′20″N 86°10′08″W / 33.07222°N 86.16889°W / 33.07222; -86.16889
Former callsigns WMLS-FM (1978-1986)
WAWV (1986-2001)
WTRB-FM (2001-2008)
WTXO (2008-2012)[1]
Owner
(Marble City Media LLC)
Sister stations WRFS (FM), WLMA, WYEA
Webcast Listen Live
Listen Live (HD2)
Website wfxo.fm
yea1065.com (HD2)

WFXO (98.3 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Classic Hits format.[2] Licensed to Stewartville, Alabama, United States, it serves East Central Alabama. The station is owned and operated by Marble City Media LLC.

Originally licensed in Sylacauga, WFXO-FM first signed on as WMLS-FM in Dec. 1959 and moved to Ashland in 2004. On July 19, 2016, the Federal Communications Commission approved Marble City Media LLC’s purchase of WFXO-FM from Williams Communications Inc., and the transfer was completed on Aug. 1, 2016. On Oct. 24, 2016, the FCC approved the station’s relocation back to the greater Sylacauga area with a license in Stewartville. The station ceased operation in Ashland on Nov. 24, 2016, and began broadcasting from the Sylacauga area on Dec. 4.

The station's format initially flipped to Contemporary Hit Radio, then moved to classic hits on January 1, 2017.

Marble City Media LLC also owns and operates stations primarily serving Sylacauga-Childersburg-Talladega and Alexander City-Dadeville-Lake Martin-Wetumpka-Montgomery and has a construction permit to build a new FM station in Waverly, Ala., to serve the Auburn-Opelika area.

WFXO-HD2

On May 25, 2018 WFXO began airing the "Yea! 106.5" classic hits format on its HD2 subchannel. (That format moved from WYEA 1290 AM Sylacauga, which switched to country.)[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.
  2. ↑ "Station Information Profile". Arbitron.
  3. ↑ Alabama Broadcast Media Page
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