WQXE

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WQXE
WQXE Quicksie 98.3 FM Color Logo.svg
Broadcast area Elizabethtown, Kentucky
Frequency 98.3 MHz
BrandingQuicksie 98.3
Programming
Format Hot adult contemporary
Affiliations Westwood One
Ownership
OwnerSkytower Communications-E'town, Inc.
WGGC, WULF
History
First air date
November 24, 1969 (at 106.3) [1]
Former frequencies
106.3 MHz (1969–1972)
100.1 MHz (1972–1992)
98.5 MHz (1992–1995)
Call sign meaning
QuiXiE
Technical information
Facility ID 26017
Class C3
ERP 8,500 watts
HAAT 162 meters
Transmitter coordinates
 37°43′18″N86°2′10″W / 37.72167°N 86.03611°W / 37.72167; -86.03611
Repeater(s) 92.9 W225BS (Elizabethtown)
Links
Webcast Live Stream
Website wqxe.com

WQXE (98.3 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a hot adult contemporary format. Licensed to Elizabethtown, Kentucky, United States, the station is currently owned by Skytower Communications-E'town, Inc. and features programming from Westwood One. [2]

Contents

History

Although the station's construction permit was first issued sometime in 1968, the station actually signed on the air at 106.3 MHz on November 24, 1969. [3] The station was originally owned by businessman Bill Evans. Evans decided to give the station the nickname "Quicksie", after a Georgia-based radio station with that nickname that he heard while attending Elkins Radio School. [4] The station has been operating with an Adult contemporary format for all its years on the air.

According to a snapshot at the LKYRadio.com website, the station had broadcast certain high school football and basketball games featuring teams representing Hardin County-area schools, along with some games involving the Bowling Green-based Western Kentucky University Hilltoppers football during the 1970s, which have since moved to WIEL and WTHX. [5]

In April 1972, the station moved from their original frequency of 106.3 MHz to 100.1 MHz. The station then moved to 98.5 MHz in 1992 [6] The move to 98.5 was not without controversy as Bowling Green-based classic rock station WDNS in Bowling Green, then broadcasting at 98.3 MHz, had announced plans to increase its signal power the previous year, which would've caused adjacent-frequency interference. [7] The move to 98.3 MHz in 1995 coincided with the time that WDNS moved from 98.3 to their current frequency of 93.3 MHz.

On October 14, 2019, WQXE was named Kentucky Broadcasters Association Excellence in Broadcasting Radio Station of the year. Owner and founder Bill Evans accepted this honor. [8]

In-house reporters broadcast seven newscasts daily with locally written and produced content. On Sundays from 12p to 2p WQXE airs Rick Dees and The Weekly Top 20.

Coverage area

WQXE serves areas of west-central and north-central Kentucky, mainly in areas between Cave City and Louisville, and into parts of southernmost Indiana. The station can be heard as far south as the Mammoth Cave tourist area and Brownsville, as far west as Morgantown, Beaver Dam, and just short of Owensboro, as far east as Lebanon, Kentucky, and as far north as an area just north of the Jeffersonville and Corydon areas in Indiana. Hence, WQXE can also be received in the Metropolitan Louisville and Jefferson County area. [9]

Translators

In addition to the main station, WQXE is relayed by an additional translator to widen its broadcast area.

Call sign Frequency City of license ERP (W) Class FCC info
W225BS92.9 FM Elizabethtown, Kentucky 250D‹The template FMQ is being considered for deletion.›  FMQ

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References

  1. ↑ 2010 Broadcasting Yearbook, page D-239
  2. ↑ "WQXE Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  3. ↑ 2010 Broadcasting Yearbook, page D-239
  4. ↑ Nash, Francis M. (1995). Towers Over Kentucky: A History of Radio and TV in the Bluegrass State. ISBN   9781879688933.
  5. ↑ Welcom to LKYRadio - Classic Louisville, Kentucky Radio Page
  6. ↑ "History – Quicksie 98.3" . Retrieved 2020-02-16.
  7. ↑ Reagan, Stan (August 4, 1991). "FM radio stations making changes". Park City Daily News . Bowling Green, Kentucky – via Google Books.
  8. ↑ News-Enterprise, The. "WQXE recognized in state as Station of the Year". The News-Enterprise. Retrieved 2020-02-20.
  9. ↑ "Radio Station Coverage Map".
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