WQXE

WQXE
City Elizabethtown, Kentucky
Branding 98.3 Quicksie
Frequency 98.3 MHz
First air date November 24, 1969 [1]
Format Hot Adult Contemporary
ERP 8,500 watts
HAAT 162.0 meters
Class C3
Facility ID 26017
Transmitter coordinates 37°43′18.00″N 86°2′10.00″W / 37.7216667°N 86.0361111°W / 37.7216667; -86.0361111
Callsign meaning QuiXiE
Former frequencies 101.1 MHz (1969-1992)
98.5 MHz (1992-1996)
Affiliations CNN Radio, Westwood One
Owner Skytower Communications-E'town, Inc.
Sister stations WGGC, WULF
Webcast no
Website wqxe.com

WQXE (98.3 FM) is a radio station broadcasting an Adult Contemporary format. Licensed to Elizabethtown, Kentucky, USA, the station is currently owned by Skytower Communications-E'town, Inc. and features programing from Westwood One.[2]

History

Although the station's construction permit was first issued sometime in 1968, the station actually signed on the air at 100.1 megacycles on November 24, 1969.[3]

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 were since moved to WIEL and WTHX.[4]

The station moved to 98.5 MHz in 1992, and stayed at that frequency until moving to their current 98.3 MHz frequency in 1996. The move to 98.3 during that year coincided with the time that classic rock station WDNS in Bowling Green moved from 98.3 to their current frequency of 93.3 MHz.

The "Quicksie" branding has been used by the station since the 1990s. In house reporters broadcast ten newscasts daily with locally written and produced content. WQXE is an affiliate of The Weather Channel. On Sundays from 12p to 2p WQXE airs Rick Dees and The Weekly Top 20. Greg & Hollie In The Morning have been the live, local morning show on WQXE "Quicksie" 98.3 since April 2004. Web streaming for WQXE is available at www.wqxe.com. WQXE Quicksie 98.3 offers free downloadable apps at iTunes and Google Play. As of 2016, WQXE is the top rated station in Hardin County, Kentucky.

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. WQXE can be received in the Metropolitan Louisville and Jefferson County area.[5]

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. ↑ Welcom to LKYRadio - Classic Louisville, Kentucky Radio Page
  5. ↑ http://www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=WQXE&service=FM&status=L&hours=U


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