WXEX

WXEX may refer to:

WXEX (AM)

Coordinates: 42°59′23.00″N 70°56′14.00″W / 42.9897222°N 70.9372222°W / 42.9897222; -70.9372222

WXEX (1540 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a '60s, '70s & '80's rock 'n' roll plus Motown music format. It is licensed to Exeter, New Hampshire, USA, and covers the New Hampshire Seacoast region. The station's license was acquired locally by Andy Hartmann and Steve Thomas under the name of Aruba Capital Holdings, LLC. The station currently simulcasts with WXEX-FM Sanford, Maine.

History

The AM 1540 frequency in Exeter went on the air in 1966 as WKXR under the ownership of Frank Estes, who also owned WKXL in Concord, New Hampshire. Estes sold the station in 1978, and on March 10, 1982, the station was renamed WMYF; by the 1990s, the station held an adult standards format.

In 1998, after Capstar acquired WMYF from CBS Radio (which had obtained the station after its purchase of American Radio Systems), the station began to simulcast the news/talk format of WGIR, a sister station in Manchester, New Hampshire; a call change to WGIP followed on October 2. The WMYF call letters would later be moved down the AM dial to 1380, where they remain today.