Branding Classic Rock 92.1 Class D Frequency 1540 kHz Format Rock and roll Sister stations WXEX-FM | First air date 1966 Facility ID 53386 City of license Exeter Area New Hampshire, Maine | |
Broadcast area Seacoast Southern New Hampshire & Southern Maine. Power 5,000 watts day
2,500 watts critical hours
3 watts night Owner Aruba Capital Holdings, LLC (operated by Port Broadcasting LLC under a Local Marketing Agreement) Slogan The Seacoast area’s Good Times & Fun Radio Station | ||
WXEX (1540 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Classic Rock format. It is licensed to Exeter, New Hampshire, USA, and covers the New Hampshire Seacoast region. The station's license was acquired locally by Andy Hartmann and Steve Thomas under the name of Aruba Capital Holdings, LLC. The station currently simulcasts with WXEX-FM Sanford, Maine and also via FM Translator in the Greater Seacoast New Hampshire and Southern York County Maine area on FM 97.1.
History
The AM 1540 frequency in Exeter went on the air in 1966 as WKXR under the ownership of Frank Estes, who also owned WKXL in Concord, New Hampshire. Estes sold the station in 1978, and on March 10, 1982, the station was renamed WMYF; by the 1990s, the station held an adult standards format.
In 1998, after Capstar acquired WMYF from CBS Radio (which had obtained the station after its purchase of American Radio Systems), the station began to simulcast the news/talk format of WGIR, a sister station in Manchester, New Hampshire; a call change to WGIP followed on October 2. The WMYF call letters would later be moved down the AM dial to 1380, where they remained until 2016 (that station is now WPLA).
After WGIP was placed into the Aloha Station Trust in 2008 as a result of the privatization of Clear Channel Communications (who acquired the station after several mergers), the station was sold to Aruba Capital Holdings, LLC in 2009. After Aruba closed on the sale on March 9, 2009, the call letters were changed to WXEX and the WGIR simulcast was discontinued.
In August 2011 the station entered into a simulcast of co-owned WXEX-FM Sanford, Maine.
On April 14, 2015 WXEX owner Aruba Holdings LLC entered into a local marketing agreement with WNBP/WWSF owner Port Broadcasting LLC whereby the latter assumed operational control of WXEX and WXEX-FM.
On August 20, 2015 WXEX and its FM sister station shifted their format from classic hits to classic rock, branded as "Classic Rock 92.1".