Channel X Radio
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. Please improve this article if you can. (October 2006) |
 |
This article does not cite any references or sources. (October 2006) Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed. |
| Channel X Radio | |
| WCXU/WCXX/WCXV/WCXH | |
| City of license | Caribou (WCXU) Madawaska (WCXX) Van Buren (WCXV) Monticello (WCXH) Fort Kent (W276AY) |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Aroostook County, Maine |
| Frequency | 97.7 MHz (WCXU) 102.3 MHz (WCXX) 98.1 MHz (WCXV) 780 kHz (WCXH) 103.1 MHz (W276AY) |
| First air date | 1986 |
| Format | Adult Contemporary |
| Power | 20 kW (WCXU) 1.75 kW (WCXX) 6 kW (WCXV) 50 watts (W276AY) 5 kW day/60 watts night (WCXH) |
| Class | C3 (WCXU) A (WCXU) A (WCXV) D (WCXH) |
| Owner | CanXus Broadcasting Corporation, Allan Weiner (WCXH only) |
| Website | www.channelxradio.com |
Channel X Radio is a network of American radio stations in Aroostook County, Maine. With studios in Caribou the stations are heard through various transmitters throughout Aroostook County.
[edit] History
The CanXus Broadcasting Corporation was founded in Maine in May, 1986. Shortly after that, CanXus submitted an application to put a 3,000 watt transmitter on the Green Ridge Road, or on the Caribou/Fort Fairfield town line. On November 15th, 1986 at 6:00 p.m., WCXU, Caribou began operation on frequency 97.7 MHz. The studios and offices were in a single-wide trailer while the transmitter was 400 feet away.
With a 3 kW signal and a small transmitter, people north of Caribou couldn't get the signal clearly enough or at all. Madawaska was the first place to get a translator. On January 30, 1988, WCXX 102.3 Madawaska began atop 11th Avenue Extension in a tiny studio. The signal goes all the way to Caribou. WCXX rebroadcasts WCXU.
Because of the valley like nature, and the small power that WCXX transmits, the signal is degraded in most of Fort Kent. In late 1994, CanXus applied for W276AY on 103.1 MHz FM. This very small signal is located near the Northern Maine Medical Center and reaches only Fort Kent and surrounding towns.
At the same time WCXU doubled its power to 6 kW, then later increased the output to 20 kW. Now the signal can go all the way to Houlton and Fort Kent in a 45 mile radius.
Since then, the transmitter building has doubled in size, the transmitter has become a little bigger (now HAAT of 90 m) and in 1998, Channel X moved to its new studio-office with state-of-the-art computerized broadcasting equipment.
In late 2006 WCXV in Van Buren began to simulcast Channel X Radio. It originally broadcasted at a lower power until December 27, 2007 when WCXV began broadcasting at the full 6 kW. Recently CanXus changed their Construction Permit to decrease its HAAT to 1 m.
Also in the summer of 2007, Channel X began broadcasting on WCXH 780 kHz, previously known as WREM 710 kHz in Monticello, the first AM station of the network. WCXH is owned by broadcaster Allan Weiner, who also owns shortwave broadcast station WBCQ in Monticello. Weiner is leasing his AM signal to Channel X Radio, and has applied to launch a new signal at 94.7 MHz FM as well,[1] where the Channel X format will likely move.[2]
[edit] Current Programming
Current Programming on Channel X include local sports, a morning show with Mark Stewart and Dougless Christisen, an afternoon show with Gordon P. Glew and Phill Shaw Neal, and DJ's Jake Ball and Peter Edwards.
[edit] References
Query the FCC's AM station database for WCXH
Query the FCC's FM station database for WCXX
Query the FCC's FM station database for WCXU
Query the FCC's FM station database for WCXV
Query the FCC's FM station database for W276AY
Radio Locator Information on WCXH
Radio Locator information on WCXX
Radio Locator information on WCXU
Radio Locator information on WCXV
Radio Locator information on W276AY
|
||||||||||||||||||||
