WLXO (105.5 FM, "105.5 Hank FM") is a

radio station Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radio ...

with a

classic country Classic country is a music radio format that specializes in playing mainstream country and western music hits from past decades. Repertoire The radio format specializes in hits from the 1950s through the early 1980s, and focus primarily on innov ...

format. Licensed to

Mount Sterling, Kentucky Mount Sterling, often written as Mt. Sterling, is a list of Kentucky cities, home rule-class city in Montgomery County, Kentucky, Montgomery County, Kentucky. The population was 6,895 at the time of the 2010 U.S. census. It is the county seat of Mo ...

, United States, the station serves the Lexington-Fayette metro area. The station is currently owned by Clarity Communications, Inc.

History

The station was assigned the call letters WMST-FM and signed on May 28, 1968, as an adjunct to

WMST WMST (1150 AM / 106.9 FM) is a radio station serving the Lexington-Fayette metropolitan area with an adult standards/soft AC format fed from Westwood One's Adult Standards satellite feed and is under ownership of Gateway Radio Works, Inc. 115 ...

(1150 AM). On October 19, 2000, the station changed its call sign to WMKJ with an

oldies Oldies is a term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, doo-wop, surf music (broadly characterized as classic rock and pop rock) from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the 1980s, as we ...

format known as "Magic 105.5", playing music of the 1960s and 70s. On May 7, 2010 105.5 rebranded as "Rewind 105.5" with 1970s and 1980s

classic hits Classic hits is a radio format which generally includes songs from the top 40 music charts from the late 1960s to the early 2000s, with music from the 1980s serving as the core of the format. Music that was popularized by MTV in the early 1980s ...

. This was not a major musical change for the station, but resulted in the station dropping most of the music of the 1960s, although some remains. The

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were changed to WWRW, which used to be the call letters of a radio station licensed to Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin from 1968 to 1994 (now WGLX). On March 9, 2020, iHeart sold WWRW to Clarity Communications for $340,000. The sale was consummated on September 3, 2020. On October 1, 2020, Clarity Communications dropped the

format from WWRW and began broadcasting

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as “Christmas 105.5“. WWRW had been redirecting listeners to

WGKS WGKS (96.9 FM) is a commercial radio station broadcasting a classic hits radio format and calling itself "KISS 96-9". Licensed to Paris, Kentucky, United States, the station serves the Lexington-Fayette media market. It is owned by L.M. Communica ...

, which had changed to broadcase classic hits on September 22. On December 25 at Noon, WWRW flipped to classic country, assuming the format of WLXO, as "105.5 Hank FM", the two stations simulcasting until WLXO introduces its own format at a later date. The WLXO call sign moved to 105.5 six months later.

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* {{Country Radio Stations in Kentucky LXO Classic country radio stations in the United States 1968 establishments in Kentucky Radio stations established in 1968 Country radio stations in Kentucky Mount Sterling, Kentucky