WBMX
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WBCN (AM)
WBCN (1660 AM, "America's Pulse 1660") is a radio station licensed to serve Charlotte, North Carolina. The station is owned by Beasley Broadcast Group. The studios are located on South Boulevard in Charlotte's South End and a transmitter is located in West Charlotte.
WBCN is licensed to broadcast in HD on 1660 AM.
History
The station signed on in December 2003 as WFNA to help improve the signal range of Charlotte's original all-sports station, WFNZ, airing some of that station's programming. WFNZ must power down to 1,000 watts at night, rendering it all but unlistenable in some parts of the market.
The station was assigned the call letters WBMX on July 29, 2009. It was assigned the WBCN call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on August 12, 2009. The assignment of the WBMX and WBCN call letters came as CBS Radio prepared for a radio station shuffle in Boston. WBCN, Boston's longtime rock station, was set to move to a digital-only platform, while WBMX was slated to move from 98.5 FM to WBCN's old position at 104.1 FM. This swap was being made to create a sports talk station at 98.5 FM. On August 5, 2009, Mix 98.5 in Boston switched its call letters from WBMX-FM to WBZ-FM, the call letters of the new sports station. The WBMX calls were parked at WFNA, while WBCN aired for its final days. Shortly after midnight on August 12, 2009, WBCN signed off, and the WBCN and WBMX call letters were switched to complete the process.
WBMX (FM)
WBMX, known on-air as "Mix 104-1," is a radio station with a hot adult contemporary format in Boston, Massachusetts. The format started at 98.5 FM on February 9, 1991, and moved to 104.1 FM, replacing WBCN, on August 12, 2009, to allow for the launch of WBZ-FM at 98.5 the next day. Its studios are located in Brighton, and its transmitter is atop Prudential Tower.
The call letters WBMX (standing for Black Music EXperience) were originally assigned to 102.7 on the FM dial in Oak Park, Illinois (serving Chicago) from 1973 to 1988. (That station frequency is now home to R&B station WVAZ). The call letters were then assigned to 640 AM in Zeeland, Michigan until 1991, when they were transferred to 98.5 FM in Boston to reflect the station's "Mix" branding.
History
Origins at 98.5
The WBMX intellectual property originated on the 98.5 FM frequency, which signed on in October 1948 as WNAC-FM under the ownership of the Yankee Network division of General Tire and Rubber, which also owned WNAC (then at 1260 AM, now occupied by WBIX; moved to 680 AM in 1953) and WNAC-TV (channel 7, now occupied by WHDH). The station originally transmitted from WNAC-TV's tower in Medford, using a transmitter originally used for the Yankee Network's FM station on Mount Washington (which was originally considered a Boston station, but was eventually refocused to Portland, Maine), which operated from December 18, 1940, to September 1948 (when it signed off due to increasing costs and a lack of listener interest). As at most FM stations, WNAC-FM initially served as a full-time simulcast of WNAC. The station, along with General Tire's other broadcast holdings, came under the General Teleradio banner in 1952; the division became RKO Teleradio Pictures in 1955 and RKO General in 1959.
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