WFXY is a radio station

Radio station

Radio broadcasting is a one-way wireless transmission over radio waves intended to reach a wide audience. Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast a common radio format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast or both...

  broadcasting a Hot Adult Contemporary format to the Middlesboro, Kentucky, USA area. The station is currently owned by Country Wide Broadcasters, Inc. and features programing from Fox News Radio

Fox News Radio

Fox News Radio is an American radio network programmed by Fox News Channel.- History :In 2003, Fox News began syndicating one minute radio updates to radio stations via syndication service Westwood One. On June 1, 2005, Fox News Radio employed 60 people and provided five minute newscasts at the top...

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History

WFXY signed on in 1969, with the call letters WAFI at 1560 kHz. Programming included a full-service format with pop and country music. In the late 1970s, the station moved to a full-time Top 40 format and changed to the current frequency in order to add nighttime service. Currently, WFXY broadcasts from a tower site on Bloomsbury Avenue in Middlesboro, 24 hours per day.
The 1490 kHz frequency was originally occupied by station WMIK

WMIK (AM)

WMIK in Middlesboro, Kentucky, operates on an assigned frequency of 560 KHz with a daytime power of 2500 watts. Pre-sunrise and nighttime power are reduced 500 watts and 45 watts respectively. The landmark radio studio is on the 19th Street Extension and Highway 441...

 in Middlesboro from its sign-on date in 1948. WMIK, now a Southern Gospel

Southern Gospel

Southern Gospel music—at one time also known as "quartet music"—is music whose lyrics are written to express either personal or a communal faith regarding biblical teachings and Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music...

 station, moved to its present frequency at 560 kHz after the station's owners purchased Middlesboro station WCPM in May 1950. WCPM signed off the 1490 kHz frequency which remained unused until 1977. During that year, the stations frequency and call letters were changed; WAFI at 1560 kHz became WFXY at 1490 kHz. A few months later, WFXY moved its tower and transmitter from a location off US-25E to its present location.

In late 2005, WFXY and its parent company, Countrywide Broadcasters, Inc., were acquired by Joshua Wilkey, a North Carolina

North Carolina

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 businessman who moved to Middlesboro to run WFXY and sister station WANO. The station has since dropped the satellite format it was airing (Westwood One

Westwood One

Westwood One was an American radio network and was based in New York City. At one time, it was managed by CBS Radio, the radio arm of CBS Corporation, and Viacom and was later purchased by the private equity firm The Gores Group...

/Dial Global

Dial Global

Dial Global is a radio syndication company. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Triton Media Group and is a sister company to Townsquare Media, both of which are owned by Oaktree Capital Management....

's "Bright AC") in favor of local DJs and automation.