WFXA-FM

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WFXA-FM
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Broadcast area Augusta, Georgia
Frequency 103.1 MHz
BrandingFoxie 103 Jamz
Programming
Format Mainstream urban
Ownership
Owner
WAKB, WTHB, WAEG
History
First air date
1968 (as WZZW)
Former call signs
WZZW (1968-1985)
Call sign meaning
We're FoXie Augusta
Technical information
Facility ID 15848
Class A
ERP 6,000 watts
HAAT 92 meters
Links
Webcast Listen Live
Website foxie103jamz.com

WFXA-FM (103.1 MHz) is a mainstream urban radio station in Augusta, Georgia known as Foxie 103 Jamz. The station is licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to broadcast with an effective radiated power (ERP) of 6,000 watts. The station is owned by Perry Broadcasting. The station's studios (which are shared with its other sister stations) and transmitter are co-located at the aptly named intersection of Broadcast Drive and Radio Station Road in North Augusta, South Carolina.

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History

The station signed on in 1968 as WZZW with an automated beautiful music format. It was one of the first stations in the Augusta market to broadcast in full stereo. The station flipped to urban on February 1, 1985 as WFXA. In 2001, the station was purchased by Radio One.

WFXA was formerly home to the syndicated Doug Banks Morning Show and was the only Radio One station to carry the show. When former owner Radio One sold their Augusta cluster to Oklahoma City-based Perry Broadcasting in August 2007, Doug Banks was dropped for The Rickey Smiley Morning Show .

On January 11, 2008 at 2:58 pm WFXA relaunched itself, changing its branding from Foxie 103.1 Jamz, "The People's Station" to 103 Jamz The Fox, The Hip-Hop & R&B Leader".

Around the end of 2009, WFXA once again started identifying as Foxie 103 Jamz. Its direct competition is WPRW and WIIZ. In January 2020, when The Rickey Smiley Morning Show was sent to sister station WAKB when The Tom Joyner Morning Show went off the air for good, It was replaced by the new syndicated urban morning show The Morning Hustle.

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