WFXN (AM)

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WFXN
WFXN FoxSports1230 logo.png
Broadcast area Greater Quad Cities
Frequency 1230 kHz
BrandingFox Sports 1230
Programming
Format Sports
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
KCQQ, KMXG, KUUL, WLLR-FM, WOC
History
First air date
 1946 (as WQUA)
Former call signs
  • WQUA (1946–1983)
  • WMRZ (1983–1990)
  • WLLR (1990–2003)
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 43199
Class C
Power 1,000 watts unlimited
Transmitter coordinates
 41°28′54.12″N90°31′49.49″W / 41.4817000°N 90.5304139°W / 41.4817000; -90.5304139
Links
Public license information
Webcast Listen live (via iHeartRadio)
Website foxsportsradio1230.iheart.com

WFXN (1230 kHz) is a sports formatted AM radio station licensed to Moline, Illinois. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. with studios located in Davenport, Iowa. The station is known as "Fox Sports 1230".

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AM 1230 broadcasts at a power of 1 kW with transmitter located on 7th Street in Moline between 30th and 32nd Avenues. [2]

History

The station originally signed on September 23, 1946, as WQUA. Like its main competitor, KSTT (which signed on just two months earlier), the new station had a wide range of local programming, news and sports, plus played popular music of the day.

From the 1950s until the late 1970s, WQUA ran a Top 40 music format, and introduced the area to personalities such as Spike O'Dell, Paula Sands and Jim Albracht. [3] WQUA and KSTT battled in the ratings as the most-listened-to station for years.

WQUA later went through various format changes. In late 1983, the station dropped adult contemporary and adopted an oldies format, using the call letters WMRZ with General Manager John Haggard, Program Director & Middays; Chad Stevens, Mornings; Dan Lucas, and Afternoons; Marty McCrae and Sandy McKay. Two years later it was sold to WLLR-FM. Then, on January 2, 1990, the station began simulcasting WLLR's FM signal, and did so for 13 years. Prior to the station's adoption of the all-sports format, and thereafter, AM 1230 offered sports programming, primarily of Illinois Fighting Illini college athletics and Western Big 6 high school sports.

The current sports format and call letters were first used in April 2003.

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References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WFXN". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ "41°28'54.0"N 90°31'49.0"W".
  3. ↑ http://www.qctimes.com/articles/2008/07/29/features/salute/doc488f1b62eb354331818261.txt Willard, John, "New book explores pioneering Quad-City radio station" Quad City Times, July 29, 2008.


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