WIXY is a radio station

Radio station

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 broadcasting a country music

Country music

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 format. Licensed to Champaign, Illinois

Champaign, Illinois

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, USA, the station serves the Champaign-Urbana area. The station is currently owned by Saga Communications

Saga Communications

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 of Illinois, LLC and features programing from CNN Radio and Motor Racing Network

Motor Racing Network

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.

eXtra program format

The station has an HD radio

HD Radio

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 subcarrier, and also has an analog broadcast translator, W221CK, on 92.1 at Champaign. During late 2009, these ran a new "WIXY Classic" country format. In early January 2010, that format swapped with WXTT "eXtra 99.1" in Savoy; 99.1 changed its callsign to WYXY

WYXY

WYXY is a radio station licensed for Savoy, Illinois 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...

 and picked up WIXY Classic, and the 92.1 WIXY-HD2 subcarrier and 92.1 translator changed branding to "WXTT eXtra 92.1"

History

The call letters WIXY have been used off and on in other U.S. cities, most notably in Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland, Ohio

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; that station later became WWMK

WWMK

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. The current station received WIXY as its first callsign on .

External links

• WIXY.com — official 103.1 analog/HD1 site
• eXtra 92.1 FM — official 103.1 HD2 and 92.1 W221CK website