WMHX (105.1 FM "Mix 105.1") is a

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and serving the Madison metropolitan area. The station is owned by

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and broadcasts a

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. From mid November to December 25, it switches to all

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History

On April 20, 1992 the station first

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as WYZM, owned by Janice and Ronald Felder. The station was known throughout most of the 1990s as

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station "The Big Y-105". The station was the first country FM competitor to

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. It became WBZU ("105-1 The Buzz") in November 2000, launching a 1980s music format with a 5,000-song marathon without interruption. Over time, the station started to sprinkle hits from the 70s and 90s into its format, with an eventual emphasis on

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from all three decades. On May 5, 2005, the station became WCHY and rebranded as "105.1 Charlie FM" ("We Play Everything"), adopting an adult hits format very similar to the

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-branded stations, with a wide-ranging list of popular music from the 70s, 80s, and 90s, along with occasional music from the 1960s and 2000s. In later years, "Charlie FM" would feature commercial-free weekday morning music blocks (8–11 a.m.) as well as "No-Repeat Work Weeks", in which no song was repeated for the entire 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Monday-thru-Friday work week. Aside from airing the syndicated ''

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'' show between March 2009 and May 2010, "Charlie FM" used no regular roster of live

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s, with prerecorded voiceovers serving as the continuity element. (The WBZU call letters would be parked at 910 AM in Scranton, Pennsylvania.) On September 4, 2012, at 2 p.m., after playing a half-hour of "goodbye"-themed songs (ending with *Nsync's "

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" and

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.'s "

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"), WCHY flipped to a

format as "Mix 105.1", launching with Carly Rae Jepsen's "

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". (The station would change its call sign to WMHX on September 20, 2012.) In announcing the change, Entercom-Madison VP/Market Manager Michael Keck stated that "There is a hole in the adisonmarket for a station like Mix;" indeed, Madison had lacked a Hot AC-formatted station since

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("Mix 92.1") dropped the format for

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in 2004. "Mix 105.1" aimed to position itself musically between popular competitors

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(Top 40) and

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( AC) with a playlist emphasizing current musicians including

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, and

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."Mix 105.1 Debuts,"
from RadioInsight, originally reported 8/15/2012 and updated 9/4/2012

Former logo

File:WCHY.JPG, WCHY

References

External links

* {{Entercom MHX Hot adult contemporary radio stations in the United States Audacy, Inc. radio stations