WUSX

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WUSX
Simulcasting WGMD, Rehoboth Beach
Broadcast area Salisbury-Ocean City
Frequency 98.5 MHz
Programming
Format Talk
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
  • Mark Giuliani
  • (Datatech Digital LLC)
WGMD
History
First air date
1972 (1972) (as WSUX-FM at 98.3)
Former call signs
  • WSUX-FM (1972–1991)
  • WECY-FM (1991–1995)
  • WSUX (1995–1998)
  • WGBG (1998–2016)
  • WGBG-FM (2016–2018)
  • WKHI (2018)
Former frequencies
98.3 MHz (1972–1998)
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 4340
Class A
ERP 6,000 watts
HAAT 98 meters
Transmitter coordinates
 38°36′47.4″N75°35′10.7″W / 38.613167°N 75.586306°W / 38.613167; -75.586306
Links
Public license information
Webcast Listen live
Website www.wgmd.com

WUSX (98.5 FM) is an American radio station licensed to Seaford, Delaware, and serving Salisbury, Maryland, Ocean City, Maryland, Southern Delaware, Virginia, and the rest of Delmarva, with studios and cluster offices located in Salisbury. Its tower is located in Seaford. WUSX simulcasts a talk radio format with WGMD (92.7 FM) in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.

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History

WSUX-FM 98.3 signed on the air in February 1972, carrying the programming of WSUX (1280 AM).

Previous studios were located along U.S. Route 13 in Seaford, Delaware. The station originally transmitted at 98.3 FM before moving to 98.5 FM in 1998. Previous formats included an easy listening format with call signs WSUX-FM (Sussex County) and WECY-FM (Easy).

On August 17, 2018, the station's WGBG-FM call sign and classic rock format moved from 98.5 FM to WKHI (107.7 FM) in Fruitland, Maryland, and 98.5 continued to simulcast 107.7 under a new WKHI call sign, until a new format was announced. [2] The station changed its call sign again on August 24, 2018, to WUSX.

On September 17, 2018, WUSX split from its simulcast with WGBG-FM and began stunting towards a new format to launch on September 21, 2018, at 5 pm. [3] On September 21, 2018 at 5 p.m., WUSX flipped to a gold-based country music format, branded as "US 98.5".

On November 30, 2021, WUSX was purchased by Mark Giuliani's Datatech Digital, LLC and changed format on December 1 from country to a simulcast of talk-formatted WGMD from Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. [4]

Former personalities

Transmitter

The transmitter is a class A transmitter, 6,000 watts, HAAT 98 meters, located in Seaford, Delaware. Facility ID 4340. Located on coordinates 38°36′47″N75°35′12″W / 38.61306°N 75.58667°W / 38.61306; -75.58667

References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WUSX". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ K107.7 Gives Way to Big Classic Rock Delmarva Radioinsight - August 17, 2018
  3. ↑ US98.5 Launches In Delmarva Radioinsight - September 18, 2018
  4. ↑ US 98.5 Salisbury Flips To WGMD Simulcast Radioinsight - December 2, 2021
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