WXQW

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WXQW
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Broadcast area
Mobile metropolitan area
[[Frequency|FrequencTemplate:Pluralize from text]]660 kHz
BrandingJox Mobile 660
Programming
FormatSports
AffiliationsESPN Radio
Ownership
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History
First air date
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Former call signs
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  • WMOE (1964)
  • WMOO (1964–1988)
  • WLIT (1988)
  • WBLX (1988–1996)
  • WHOZ (1996–1998)
  • WDLT (1998–2007)
  • WWFF (2007)[1][2]
Former frequencies
1550 kHz (1964–1988)
Technical information[3]
Licensing authority
FCC
2541
ClassD
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  • 10,000 watts (day)
  • 19 watts (night)
Transmitter coordinates
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WebcastListen live
Websitejoxmobile.com

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WXQW (660 AM) is a radio station licensed to Fairhope, Alabama, and serving the Mobile metropolitan area. The station is owned by Cumulus Media with studios on Dauphin Street in Midtown Mobile. WXQW carries a sports format, carrying local programming from WJOX-FM in Birmingham.[4] The station's transmitter is sited in Daphne, Alabama.

The station began as a country & western outlet in 1964, later broadcasting contemporary Christian music, children's radio, urban contemporary gospel, all-news radio from CNN Headline News, blues music, and syndicated talk formats in its years on the air.[1][5][6][7]

History

Launch

In the early 1960s, Springhill Broadcasting, Inc., applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a new AM radio station in Mobile which would be powered at 50,000 watts. It would broadcast on 1550 kHz as a daytime-only station, required to go off the air at sunset.[1] The FCC granted the company a construction permit to build this new station and assigned call sign WMOE while construction was under way. Springhill Broadcasting was initially led by Marvin Burton as president and Samuel R. David as both vice president and general manager.[1]

Assigned the new call letters WMOO, the station began licensed broadcast operations in 1964 with a country & western music format.[2][6][8] By 1969, Samuel R. David took over as president of license holder Springhill Broadcasting.[9] Under his leadership, Springhill Broadcasting reached a deal to sell WMOO to Trio Broadcasters, Inc. (George Beasley, president) which was consummated on December 17, 1969.[10] The new owners flipped the format from country to southern gospel music with some Christian talk and teaching programs. This format was maintained through the 1970s and into the 1980s.[10]

Move to 660 kHz

In March 1981, Trio Broadcasters, Inc., applied to the FCC to make extensive changes to the broadcast license for WMOO.[11] The company applied to change the community of license from Mobile to Fairhope, to convert from daytimer status to a 24-hour operation with reduced daytime power plus nighttime service at 1,000 watts, to change broadcast frequency from 1550 kHz to 660 kHz, and to move the reconfigured antenna system to a new location just outside Daphne, Alabama.

The FCC accepted the filing on May 15, 1981, and finally granted a construction permit for these changes on September 26, 1984. This permit was scheduled to expire one year later, on September 2, 1985.[11] After a long series of modifications and extensions, the station completed construction and applied for a license to cover these changes in August 1988.[12][13][14][15][16][17] The FCC granted this request and the station began licensed operation on the new frequency from the new location with new operating hours and power levels on November 10, 1988.[17] As part of these changes, the station requested a new call sign from the FCC. It became WLIT on January 24, 1988. That change proved short-lived as the station switched its call sign to WBLX on July 4, 1988.[2]

The new WBLX was sold shortly after it was completed. Trio Broadcasters, Inc., reached a deal to sell the station to Central Life Broadcasting of Alabama, Inc., in September 1988. The FCC approved the sale on November 2, 1988, and the transaction was formally consummated on May 11, 1989.[18]

1990s

Less than a year later, in April 1990, a deal was reached to sell WBLX to April Broadcasting, Inc. The FCC approved the sale on July 23, 1990, and the transaction was formally consummated on October 31, 1990.[19]

On October 4, 1996, the station's call sign was changed to WHOZ when the station flipped to children's radio as a network affiliate of Radio AAHS. The new format made its formal debut with a promotion at Bayfest on October 5, 1996.[7] WHOZ became the first radio station in the Mobile metropolitan area to air a radio format designed for children.[7] Unable to compete with Radio Disney, the entire Radio AAHS network discontinued programming in January 1998.[20]

Cumulus era

On January 21, 1998, the FCC assigned this station the WDLT call sign.[2] Cumulus Media agreed to purchase WDLT from April Broadcasting, Inc., in November 1999. After a legal challenge to the sale was dismissed, the FCC approved the sale on November 30, 1999, and the transaction was formally consummated the same day.[21]

Nine years later, the station was briefly assigned the call letters WWFF on September 21, 2007. It switched to the current WXQW on December 31, 2007.[2] This WXQW call sign was most recently used by a sister station (now WHRP, 94.1 FM) in the Huntsville, Alabama, market.

Switch to talk

Logo as a talk station

On October 12, 2015, WXQW changed its format from urban gospel (simulcasting WGOK 900 AM in Mobile) to talk radio. It mostly carried nationally syndicated conservative talk shows from Westwood One, a subsidiary of Cumulus Media. They included Dan Bongino, Chris Plante, Ben Shapiro, Mark Levin, Michael J. Knowles, Red Eye Radio, America in The Morning and First Light. From Fox News Talk, Brian Kilmeade was heard in middays. National news from CBS News Radio began each hour.

Change in power

On January 20, 2016, WXQW was granted an FCC construction permit to decrease the night power to 180 watts.[22] On January 4, 2017, WXQW filed an application for a construction permit to decrease night power to 19 watts. The application was accepted for filing on January 20, 2017.[23]

In July 2025, WXQW changed its format from conservative talk to sports radio as "Jox Mobile". It carries Alabama-centered sports shows from co-owned WJOX-FM in Birmingham, with ESPN Radio airing nights and weekends.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Directory of AM and FM Radio Stations in the U.S.". 1964 Broadcasting Yearbook. Washington, DC: Broadcasting Publications, Inc. 1964. p. B-6. Retrieved September 4, 2011.[dead link]
  2. ^ a b c d e Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database. Retrieved September 3, 2011.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Facility Technical Data for WXQW". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  4. ^ RadioInsight.com/headlines "WXQW Brings Jox to Mobile" July 11, 2025
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."AM Technical Profile: WXQW". Alabama Broadcast Media Page. Retrieved September 3, 2011.
  6. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Country Music". Billboard. February 13, 1965. p. 48. Retrieved September 4, 2011. After many delays, including even a change in call letters, WMOO, Mutual Broadcasting System affiliate, went on the air here recently to give Mobile its first high-power radio station. The 50,000-watt daytimer plays all country music.
  7. ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Brantley, Mike (October 5, 1996). "'Radio AAHS' plays for children; WHOZ-AM becomes first station in area to feature a format aimed at young listeners". Mobile Register. p. 1. Retrieved September 4, 2011.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Directory of AM and FM Radio Stations in the U.S.". 1965 Broadcasting Yearbook. Washington, DC: Broadcasting Publications, Inc. 1965. p. B-6. Retrieved September 4, 2011.[dead link]
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Directory of AM and FM Radio Stations in the U.S.". 1970 Broadcasting Yearbook. Washington, DC: Broadcasting Publications, Inc. 1970. p. B-7. Retrieved September 4, 2011.[dead link]
  10. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Facilities of Radio". 1979 Broadcasting Yearbook. Washington, DC: Broadcasting Publications, Inc. 1979. p. C-6. Retrieved September 4, 2011.[dead link]
  11. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Application Search Details (BP-19810309AN)". FCC Media Bureau. September 26, 1984. Retrieved September 4, 2011.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Application Search Details (BMP-19850919AG)". FCC Media Bureau. January 17, 1986. Retrieved September 4, 2011.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Application Search Details (BMP-19860314AF)". FCC Media Bureau. June 13, 1986. Retrieved September 4, 2011.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Application Search Details (BMP-19861112AG)". FCC Media Bureau. October 6, 1987. Retrieved September 4, 2011.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Application Search Details (BMP-19880318AF)". FCC Media Bureau. April 11, 1988. Retrieved September 4, 2011.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Application Search Details (BMP-19880610AD)". FCC Media Bureau. July 18, 1988. Retrieved September 4, 2011.
  17. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Application Search Details (BL-19880817AE)". FCC Media Bureau. November 10, 1988. Retrieved September 4, 2011.
  18. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Application Search Details (BAL-19880923EB)". FCC Media Bureau. May 11, 1989. Retrieved September 4, 2011.
  19. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Application Search Details (BAL-19900424EB)". FCC Media Bureau. October 31, 1990. Retrieved September 4, 2011.
  20. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."ABC Radio Loses Contract Lawsuit". The New York Times. October 1, 1998. Retrieved September 3, 2011.
  21. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Application Search Details (BAL-19991117AAK)". FCC Media Bureau. November 30, 1999. Retrieved September 4, 2011.
  22. ^ Application for Construction Permit for Commercial Broadcast Station - Federal Communications Commission
  23. ^ Application for Construction Permit for Commercial Broadcast Station - Federal Communications Commission

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