WFXN-FM
WFXN-FM (102.3 FM) — branded 102.3 The Fox — is a commercial classic rock radio station licensed to Galion, Ohio. Owned by iHeartMedia, Inc., WFXN-FM is the local affiliate for The Bob & Tom Show and The House of Hair with Dee Snider. The WFXN-FM studios are located in Mansfield, while the station transmitter resides in Galion. Besides a standard analog transmission, the station is available online via iHeartRadio.
WFXN-FM primarily serves the Mid-Ohio counties of Richland, Crawford, and Morrow, but also extends its signal by using a single full-power repeater. Licensed to Loudonville, Ohio, repeater WXXF (107.7 FM) provides additional coverage to the Mid-Ohio counties of Holmes, Ashland, and Wayne.
History of WFXN Galion
WFXN-FM began as WQLX on November 8, 1974. At first, WQLX simulcast WGLX/Galion (1570 AM) was owned by Harry Gray's Radio Galion. After only owning the station for one year, Gray had a heart attack at the age of 58, the control of the station was transferred to Joseph Billow until a sale could take place. In 1976, Maumee Valley Broadcasting owned by Ray Malone for $166,000. Malone would own the station along with sister WGLX/Galion and WNDH-FM/Napoleon before selling in 1996 to Dean Stampfli's Ashland/Knox Broadcasting for $161,000. In 1997, Ohio Radio Group (nee Ashland/Knox) changed the station's callsign to WGLN. On October 2, 2000, Clear Channel purchased Ohio Radio Group which included WQIO Mount Vernon, Ohio, WMVO Mount Vernon, Ohio, WWBK Fredericktown, Ohio, WBZW Loudonville, Ohio, WNCO-AM Ashland, Ohio and WNCO-FM Ashland, Ohio . Over the next two years, the station callsign changed three times: in 2002 to WFXN; in 2003 to WXFN-FM; and again in 2003, to WFXN-FM.
WFXN (AM)
WFXN (1230 AM) is a sports radio-formatted radio station licensed to Moline, Illinois. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. with studios located in Davenport, Iowa. The station is known as "Fox Sports 1230".
AM 1230 broadcasts at a power of 1 kW with transmitter located on 7th Street in Moline between 30th and 32nd Avenues.
History
The station originally signed on September 23, 1946 as WQUA, and was the second AM radio station based in the Illinois Quad Cities. Like its main competitor, KSTT (which signed on just two months earlier), the new station had a wide range of local programming, news and sports, plus played popular music of the day.
During the 1950s, WQUA played early rock n roll music, and introduced the area to personalities such as Spike O'Dell, Paula Sands and Jim Albracht. For years, WQUA and KSTT battled in the ratings as the most-listened to station.
WQUA later went through various format changes. In 1983, the station adopted an oldies format, using the call letters WMRZ. On January 2, 1990, the station began simulcasting WLLR's FM signal, and did so for 13 years. Prior to the station's adoption of the all-sports format, and thereafter, AM 1230 offered sports programming, primarily of Illinois Fighting Illini college athletics and Western Big 6 high school sports.
