WDCX (AM)

WDCX (990 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Contemporary Christian format to the Rochester, New York, USA area. The station is licensed to Kimtron, Inc. which is owned by Donald Crawford, and is a sister station to WDCX-FM in Buffalo and WLGZ (a station that previously occupied this frequency) in Rochester.

History

What is now known as WDCX has its roots in an earlier radio station, one on a different frequency. In 1947, WRNY signed on at 680 kHz as a daytime-only station (sharing a clear channel with CFTR, which was only about 100 miles away from Rochester as the crow flies). It signed on an FM sister station (FM 97.7, later 97.9) primarily to give the station a night signal, but WRNY-FM was gone by 1955. From 1957 to 1965, like most stations of the era, WRNY ran a top 40 format under the call sign WRVM ("Rochester's Voice of Music"). In 1965, the top 40 was gone and in its place was a country music format under its new call sign, WNYR. Country music lasted 22 years on the channel; a new sister station, WNYR-FM (now WRMM), signed on in the late 1960s, this time becoming permanent. The AM station moved from 680 kHz to 990 kHz over the course of the first week in July 1979, allowing the station to broadcast 24 hours a day. In 1987, when a national movement putting country music on FM led to the establishment of WBEE-FM, WNYR lost its advantage to WBEE and gave up on country music.

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WDCX

WDCX may refer to:

WDCX (AM), a radio station (990 AM) licensed to Rochester, New York, United States

WDCX-FM, a radio station (99.5 FM) licensed to Buffalo, New York, United States

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WDCX-FM

WDCX-FM (99.5 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a brokered Religious format. Licensed to Buffalo, New York, USA, the station serves the Buffalo and parts of Southern Ontario, including Toronto. The station is currently owned by Kimtron, Inc., a division of Crawford Broadcasting. Its studios are located in the Allentown neighborhood north of downtown Buffalo, and a transmitter site is located in Boston, New York, southeast of Buffalo.

At 110,000 watts effective radiated power, WDCX is tied with WTSS (also in the Buffalo market) for having the strongest FM signal in the northeastern United States. Since 2012, WDCX has also simulcast on WDCZ (AM 970).

WDCX is one of the oldest religious stations in the nation. It signed on for the first time on February 18, 1963 and has been owned by the Crawford family for its entire existence.

WDCX-FM broadcasts in HD Radio.