WXNY-FM

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WXNY-FM
City New York, New York
Broadcast area New York metropolitan area
Branding X 96.3
Slogan "Super Hits: El Sonido de Hoy"
Frequency 96.3 MHz
First air date 1964 (as WHBI)
Format Spanish Top 40
ERP 6,000 watts[1]
HAAT 415 meters
Class B
Facility ID 29022
Transmitter coordinates 40°44′54.36″N 73°59′08.36″W / 40.7484333°N 73.9856556°W / 40.7484333; -73.9856556 (Empire State Building)Coordinates: 40°44′54.36″N 73°59′08.36″W / 40.7484333°N 73.9856556°W / 40.7484333; -73.9856556 (Empire State Building)[2]
Callsign meaning W X 96.3 New York
Former callsigns WHBI (1964-1980s)
WNWK (1980s-1998)
WCAA (1998-2007; 2007-2009)
WQBU (2007)
Former frequencies 105.9 (MHz) (1964-2009)
Owner Univision Radio
(WADO-AM License Corp.)
Sister stations WADO, WFUT-DT, WXTV-DT
Webcast X96.3 Listen Live
Website Univision.com - X96.3FM

WXNY-FM is a commercial FM radio station that broadcasts a Spanish-language format. It is licensed to New York City. WXNY is owned by Univision Radio and broadcasts at 96.3 MHz in the New York City metropolitan area. The station has a transmitter atop the Empire State Building. On the air since 1939, the station is also one of the oldest continuously operating FM stations in the world.

History

The station first came on the air on 105.9 FM in 1964 as WHBI. The call letters stood for original owners Hoyt Brothers Incorporated. In the 1980s, the station - by then property of Multicultural Broadcasting - went by the call letters WNWK, and aired leased-access ethnic programming. (This time the call letters stood for NeWarK, its city of license.)

In 1998, the station, under new ownership, started playing hit Spanish music as "Caliente 105.9" ("Hot 105.9"), with the call letters WCAA. In September 1999, the station changed its moniker to "105.9 Latino Mix" ("105.9 Latin Mix"). In February 2004, the station's owner, Univision Communications bought the 92.7 FM frequency in Garden City, New York which was the home of WLIR-FM and made it a western Long Island simulcast of 105.9 under the call letters WZAA. (While most New York City FM stations broadcast at 6,000 watts, 105.9 only has 600 watts of power, so 92.7 was used to give better coverage to Nassau County and Queens.)

On May 27, 2005, WCAA adapted a reggaeton format with the branding La Kalle, which is a fanciful spelling of La Calle, Spanish for "the street."

The station's HD2 station, which it was launched in 2006, aired the original "Caliente/Latino Mix" format (The Tropical music format).

In the summer of 2006, Univision launched the national affiliates page for its "La Kalle" stations around the United States, the Mini-Page also includes Quick-Links to live audio streams of other La Kalle stations.

Also in mid-2006, the station adopted the slogan "Yo Soy La Kalle!" ("I Am La Kalle!"), thus replacing the "Reggaeton y Mas" slogan from its format change. The new slogan was also part of a nationwide promotional campaign that Univision adopted for most of its other La Kalle affiliates.

In late December 2006, the station dropped the "Yo Soy La Kalle" slogan for the slogan "El Movimento Latino" (in English, "The Latino Movement"). In February 2007, the La Activaeda Block and SUBELO Midday Mix switched DJs: DJ Kazzanova ran the 5 p.m. mix programming, and station resident DJ, DJ SpinOne, mixed the Midday Mix; however, some of the DJs were still in the station mixing in club broadcasts and mix shows, notably DJ Presice, who was still doing the Saturday "The Show" block and DJ Rey-Mo who was mixing on La Kalle during select live club mix broadcasts. In mid-April 2007, the regular La Activaeta Block returned with the same schedule before the Kazzanova-SpinOne switch.

On January 11, 2007, Univision dropped the La Kalle simulcast by flipping 92.7 WZAA to a regional Mexican format. The station is now known as 92.7 Qué Buena.

In an unprecedented decision by station executives in mid-February 2007, the station started playing more of their old format as opposed to just Reggaeton. Some of the schedule changes were to blame for this format mix-up. The station aired a mix of Bachata and Salsa, with Reggaeton still being a primary format. These changes had no effect on the mix shows, but DJ Kazzanova played some Bachata/Salsa sometimes during his mix shifts (not SUBELO Reggaeton Radio, his syndicated Reggaeton show airing on this station). Also, in a TV advertisement spot, the new format mix was shown when one of the Bachata songs was shown in the ad.

These changes culminated on January 17, 2008 when Luis Jimenez returned to New York airwaves with his nationally syndicated morning show, The Luis Jimenez Show, until his cancellation on July 16, 2014, after 7 years because of low ratings. The format was similar to the "Latino Mix" format that dominated the station before 2005.

On May 19, 2014, the station shifted towards a Hurban format. The station also updated its slogan to "¡Música Urbana y Mucho Más!"

On November 9, 2016, the station shifted to Spanish Top 40 format with "Super Hits: El Sonido de Hoy" slogan.

Move to 96.3 FM and Imaging Change

On July 14, 2009 it was announced that WCAA would move to the 96.3 frequency as a result of Univision radio buying the frequency. As a result, at 8 p.m. on October 8, 2009, classical WQXR-FM moved from 96.3 to 105.9, while WCAA moved to 96.3,[3] dropped the La Kalle name and adopted a new name on October 15. It had been speculated the imaging for the station name would be X96.3 as Univision had registered the domain name X963FM.com as well as requested call letters WXNY from the FCC. In addition, the RDS text data on car radios was displaying "96 X".[4] The station stunted with different genres of Spanish music and liners that pointed to the launch of the new branding, which took place on October 15 at 6 AM. At that time, the station relaunched as X 96.3 with call letters of WXNY-FM, as previously speculated.

WXNY Previous Logo

Concerts

Past concerts

All shows (except Jersey Jumpoff) were sold-out shows.

Canceled concerts

References

  1. ↑ Perez-Pena, Richard; Waniel J. Wakin (July 14, 2009). "Times Co. Agrees to Sell WQXR Radio". New York Times. Retrieved July 31, 2009.
  2. ↑ National Geodetic Survey datasheet KU3602, Retrieved July 26, 2009
  3. ↑ Bloomberg News (July 14, 2009)
  4. ↑ RadioInsight (October 9, 2009)


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