The station began broadcasting on Monday, January 23, 1989. The original owners were longtime Toledo radio personality Buddy Carr and his wife Carolyn.
95.7 began with an Adult Contemporary format with the call letters WRED . The station was known as Red 96. In July 1989, the format was changed to Oldies.
Sometime later, Oldies was dropped for a full-time simulcast of Toledo classic country music station WTOD 1560AM.
WIMX transmitter site and former studio building at 1201 Fremont Pike, Woodville, Ohio. The building at the right of the tower served as its studio location from its beginnings in 1988 to 1993.
Y95.7
In 1993, Booth American, who was the owner of WKKO K-100 at the time, Entered into local marketing agreement (LMA) with the owners of WRED. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) duopoly had recently relaxed rules to allow a broadcaster to control 2 FM stations in a single market. WRED's operations, now under Booth's control, moved to the same facility as WTOD and WKKO on Arlington Avenue in South Toledo. However, the antenna and transmitter facility (and a since-vacant studio building) remained in Woodville.
On August 30, 1993, the format was changed to Country, branded as "Young Country Y95.7", and changed call letters to WYHK. The LMA deal ended in 1995, and Booth America purchased the station outright.
Mix 95.7
On March 20, 1996, the format was changed to Urban Adult Contemporary as "MIX 95.7". The callsign changed to WIMX. WIMX was later purchased by Cumulus Broadcasting in 1997. However, they were forced to sell WIMX due to FCC ownership limits. The station was sold to Riverside Broadcasting. Riverside Broadcasting then sold WIMX to its current owner, Urban Radio Broadcasting in April 2003 .
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WLQR was a commercial radio station that was licensed to Toledo, Ohio at 1470 AM, and broadcast from 1954 to 2016. The station broadcast with a power output of 1,000 watts. It had a different signal pattern during the day than it did at night, using a directional antenna. The transmitter and four towers were located on Pickle Road, east of Toledo, in Oregon, Ohio. The studios at the transmitter site are no longer in use, since the WLQR/WTOD studios have been moved to the Cumulus Toledo-Cluster facility in South Toledo.
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KONO is a commercial AM radio station in San Antonio, Texas. Owned by Cox Radio, it airs an oldies radio format focused on 1960s and 1970s hits. KONO's studios are located in Northwest San Antonio near the South Texas Medical Center complex. The transmitter site with two towers is located on Creekview Drive, near the Salado Creek Greenway and Interstate 35.
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