WMXD FM 92.3 Detroit

Slogan/Positioner: Mix 92.3

Format: Adult Urban Contemporary

Web site: www.mix923fm.com

E-mail: visit web site

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Power/Height/Class: 45,000 watts / 479 feet / B, directional
- Coverage area (FCC)

Broadcasts in digital/HD

  • Secondary stream format (HD2): Religious; Gospel

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More Technical Information:

Call Sign History:

  • WMXD: 12/1/1989
  • WVAE: 12/28/1987
  • WNTM: 5/15/1986
  • WCXI-FM: early 1980's
  • WTWR:
  • WCAR-FM: 1964
  • WLIN: sign on, 1962

Call Sign Origin: The Mix, Detroit

On Air Date: November 2, 1962

Owner: Clear Channel

Telephone: (313) 965-2000

Notes/History:

  • 8/30/2000: AMFM/Clear Channel merger closes
  • 10/1999: AMFM to merge with Clear Channel
  • 8/1994: Chancellor Media acquires station. Chancellor and Evergreen later merge to form AMFM
  • 4/1994: Booth American Company merges with Broadcast Alchemy to become Secret Communications
  • 1994: Purchased by Booth American from Fritz Broadcasting. Booth now owns WJLB-FM, WMXD-FM.
  • 1989: WMXD is 'The Mix', Format evolves into Urban Adult Contemporary with Urban Oldies mixed in
  • 1987: WVAE is 'The Wave', New Age / Jazz
  • 1986: WNTM is 'Ninety-two Music', Hot Adult Contemporary
  • 198x: Drops 'Tower 92' and becomes country WCXI-FM to compete with 106.7 WWWW-FM.
  • by 1979: Owner is Fritz Broadcasting
  • 19xx: WTWR is 'Tower 92', Contemporary Music
  • 1964: Hy Levinson purchases the station for $70,000 and it becomes the sister station of WCAR AM 1130.
  • 1963: Studios moved to downtown Detroit atop an apartment high rise (Lafayette Plaisance) and the format was cahnged to all jazz.
  • 11/2/1962: WLIN FM signs on with studios on Fort Street in Lincoln Park and transmitter, a used/re-built RCA BTF-3B, feed a 3-bay antenna on top of the Cadillac Tower in Downtown Detroit. Art Lebermann, WLIN's first Chief Engineer, built WLIN's studios and installed the transmitter.
  • 1961: David Kelly forms Downriver Broadcasting, Inc. and purchases the construction permit for a 10,000 watt FM on 92.3 from Sleepy Stein (a San Francisco jazz DJ) and Henry Mancini for $10,000 (including transmitter and antenna). The concept of the station was to provide a "full service" format to the downriver area.


Transmitter location:

Wayne County: Cadillac Tower building (Downtown Detroit)

 


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