WKXA/Findlay going country

[Radiofreewill]

From wkxa.com

Findlay Publishing Co.'s 100.5 WKXA going country

    WKXA announced today that it will move to a country format Tuesday and will be known as “Your Country Now, 100.5-WKXA.”
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    “The new country format will offer listeners the best in today’s country music as well as offer some of the favorites that date back to the late 1990s,” said Mike Holman of the Findlay Publishing Co., which owns the station.

    The company, which publishes The Courier, also owns WFIN, which has a news-talk format, and classic rock station WBUK.

[xmusicmatt]

WOW! Never saw that one coming -- Doesn't Findlay already get Country music from 103.7 up that way? (It's been awhile since I have drove up there)

WKXA has been it's current format for aslong as I can remember.

[Radiofreewill]

WCKY is targeting Toledo nowadays; they even moved their COL to Pemberville.

[borderblaster]

They were country for ages as WHMQ and as I recall a rimshot has those calls now.

[pbf1]

They were country for ages as WHMQ and as I recall a rimshot has those calls now.

Rimshot?  107.7 took the calls in the early 90's after 100.5 dropped them, but they were hardly a rimshot; the tower was just northeast of Findlay.  (I was PD; we beat WKXA in middays, and were very close in morning and afternoon drive.  Smokin' Joe Bacon, Meg Stevens, and John Marshall were among those a part of *that* version of WHMQ, who later went to work for WKXA/WFIN.  John Boyle ["Billy Blaze" at WHMQ] went on to program a number of stations, and is currently doing promotions for Entercom in Sacremento, and doing a kickass video thing.)

But alas, those calls left the frequency many years ago now.  Some time as a classic rock station, and even some form of AC (as My 107.7).  And, for far too long, dead air.

[the marv]

Lima's T102 isn't that far away. Looks like that station flips quite a bit. I remeber a radio station in York Pa. switched from classic hits similar to what this station is switching from.

[Buckeyes2001]

Interesting that they are going to make the flip on Valentine's Day. Any guesses on what the last classic hits song to be played will be and what the first country song played will be?

[xmusicmatt]

They were country for ages as WHMQ and as I recall a rimshot has those calls now.

I didn't know WKXA was country at some point.. I last heard them in the 90s and they were what I would call AC/Classic Hits type music mix.

[borderblaster]

WHMQ on 100.5 flipped away from Country in 1989.

[Howard Dean]

Just what the area needs, more of the same. I get it but I would have rather seen something else. The area can already get country on: 99.9,102.1,103.7,107.7,. How many freakin more do you want? CC should flip 103.7, they lose miserably to K-100 all the time. 107.7fm, no idea how they are doing.