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South Florida Radio History: A Short History of WEXY Radio Contact us if you're interested in advertising on a relevant page! Entire site copyright 1996-2008 by David Citron All rights reserved. This page first posted on Univox November 2003. Updated June 27 2008. Also updated this week: FAU's Jim Rosetti Promotes Networking on WWNN

About Gospel Station WEXY 1520 and its predecessor, Country Station WIXX 1520 kHz, Oakland Park, Florida
BACK ISSUES OF SOUTH FLORIDA RADIO NEWS	Christian radio station WEXY (1520) in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, is known locally for its many brokered Christian radio programs. The South Florida Radio Pages need your support! Thank you! WEXY was sold in 2002 and it seems to have a lot more brokered non-religious content than before. It's estimated to have 75% religious content and 25% everything else. Did you know that WEXY used to be a country music station WIXX, competing with two other wountry/western stations on the AM band? Previously known as WIXX, its slogan in the 1970s was "Top Gun In Broward ... WIXX" with gunshot sound effects during the short pause. (I'm amazed that I remember such obscure trivia!) Back then, they were in a storefront office on the north side of West Oakland Park Boulevard in Oakland Park. Today, WEXY's almost across the screet, in a storefront office on the south side of West Oakland Park Boulevard, which is actually in the city of Wilton Manors. IMHO, WIXX was weak competition for south Florida's big country stations of the era: WWOK (1260) in Miami and WGMA (1320) in Hollywood. WEXY Hosts Oakland Park Dog Park In 2006, the City of Oakland Park established a dog park on the WEXY transmitter site, which the city leases to the station. See WEXY 1520 Transmitter Site Going To Dogs in section 1 of January 2007 South Florida Radio News.

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