WMXQ & WMQX (96.7 FM, licensed to Alexandria, Indiana

Alexandria, Indiana

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) are simulcasting radio station

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s broadcasting a Classic rock

Classic rock

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 format. The stations serves the Muncie

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-Marion area. The stations are currently owned by Backyard Broadcasting Indiana Licensee, LLC

Backyard Broadcasting

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. The station carries the nationally syndicated radio program Nights with Alice Cooper

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The current air lineup is as follows...

6-10am - MAXimum Music Morning Show with Randy Rankin

10am-3pm - Jaybo and the MAX Midday Show

3-7pm - Rockin' Ride Home with MacKenzie Lee

7pm-mid - Nights with Alice Cooper

History

The station was assigned the call letters WWWO on 1986-01-16. On 1999-06-16, the station changed its call sign to the current WHTY.

WMQX began in 1979 as WAXT "97 Country" located at a former truck terminal on West State Road 28 in Alexandria

Alexandria, Indiana

Alexandria is a city in Monroe Township, Madison County, Indiana, United States. It is about northeast of Indianapolis. It is part of the Anderson, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area...

 and was founded by Bellefontaine, Ohio-based Triplett Broadcasting which fell into bankruptcy in the mid-1980s prompting the sale of the station.

WMXQ (as WWWO with a rock format) began as a construction permit for a Hardford City FM station in the late 1960s but never came on the air initially due the financial difficulties of the former WBMP in Elwood (now WIKL) which was to have founded that station, hence it remained dormant (and silent) until 1986.

On July 13, 2009 WHTY and WHTI changed their call letters to WMXQ and WMQX, respectively, to go with their "Max" branding.