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
More web sites about WMXD:
- Wikipedia (no article as of 4/2006)
- Air checks, Detroit Radio Flashbacks
More Technical Information:
- engineering data
- station details
- FCCInfo.com
- Recnet Broadcast Query
- Coverage area (Radio Locator)
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)
Old logo gallery:
Thanks, DetroitRadioFlashbacks.net
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