WYXY is a radio station licensed for
Savoy, Illinois
Savoy is a village in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. The population was 8,857 at the 2020 census.
History
The village was named after Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy, who had paid the area a visit in 1861. Henry M. Dunlap (1853-1938) ...
on 99.1 MHz and owned by Saga Communications' Illini Radio Group.
WYXY formerly had the callsigns WIAI then WXLS. It was sold from IAI Broadcasting to Saga Communications in 2004 and changed its callsign to WXTT. During that time, the station was known on-air (popularly) as Extra 99.1. In early January 2010, the WXTT format was moved to 100.3
WIXY
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 G ...
-HD2 and its analog
translator
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92.1
W221CK
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 Gr ...
in Champaign and the "WIXY Classic" format that was being tested on those stations was moved to 99.1. On January 9, 2010, 99.1 changed its callsign to WYXY.
WYXY had an associated
broadcast translator
A broadcast relay station, also known as a satellite station, relay transmitter, broadcast translator (U.S.), re-broadcaster (Canada), repeater (two-way radio) or complementary station (Mexico), is a broadcast transmitter which repeats (or tran ...
, 99.7 W259BG
Champaign, Illinois
Champaign ( ) is a city in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. The population was 88,302 at the 2020 census. It is the tenth-most populous municipality in Illinois and the fourth most populous city in Illinois outside the Chicago metropo ...
, which was W256BN until December 9, 2009, and before that was W250AT since July 8, 2004.
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Champaign County, Illinois
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