WIXY (100.3
MHz) is a
commercial FM radio station broadcasting a
country music radio format.
Licensed to
Champaign, Illinois, United States, the station serves the
Champaign-Urbana area. The station is currently owned by the Illini Radio Group subsidiary of Saga Communications under licensee Saga Communications of Illinois, LLC. The
radio studio
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s and offices are on West Bradley Avenue in Champaign.
WIXY has an
effective radiated power (ERP) of 13,000
watts. The
transmitter is on County Road 1700 East at County Road 900 North in
Philo, Illinois.
HD Radio
WIXY broadcasts using
HD radio
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technology. It also had an
FM translator, W221CK, on 92.1 MHz in Champaign. During late 2009, these ran a new "WIXY Classic" country format. In early January 2010, that format swapped with WXTT "eXtra 99.1" in Savoy; 99.1 changed its
call sign to
WYXY and picked up WIXY Classic, and the 92.1 WIXY-HD2 subcarrier and 92.1 translator changed branding to "WXTT eXtra 92.1" The translator for WXTT later switched to 96.9 W245DP. The active rock format is now known as "eXtra 96.9."
In May 2012, WIXY signed on an HD3
digital subchannel
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, and began airing a
Top 40/CHR format branded as "Hits 99.7" (in reference to translator W259BG (99.7 FM), which dropped its simulcast of WIXY-HD2). On April 22, 2021, WIXY-HD3/W259BG changed to a
soft adult contemporary format, branded as "EZ 99.7".
History
The call letters WIXY have been used off and on in other U.S. cities, most notably in
Cleveland, Ohio
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; that station later became
WCCR. The current FM station was assigned the WIXY
call sign by the FCC on December 13, 1991. WIXY began broadcasting on June 1, 1992.
See also
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WYXY — sister station 99.1 WIXY Classic
References
External links
Saga Communications StationsWIXY.com
— official 100.3 analog/HD1 site
EZ 99.7 FM
— official 100.3 HD3 and 99.7 W259BG website
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