WEXP (102.9

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licensed to

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, and serving the Burlington- Plattsburgh

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. WEXP programs a block programming format and is owned by Sun Signals LLC.http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/sta_list.pl?Facility_id=72034 FCC FM query for WCLX Ownership It calls itself "Farm Fresh Radio." The

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. WEXP is a Class A FM station with an

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is on Lake Shore Road, near

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in Westport.Radio-Locator.com/WCLX
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History

While it was still a

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, and before it was built, the station was granted the

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WVZP on September 2, 1992. On October 1, the call letters were changed to WADQ (for "Adirondack"). The station

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the air in January 1995. On September 16, 1996, the station took on the call sign WMEX. During this time, the station had a

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format, with the slogan, "Where classic call letters mean great Classical Music." In the late 1990s, WMEX gradually morphed into "Burlington's Album Station", adopting WCLX call sign on February 10, 1999, when owner Dennis Jackson relinquished the historic "WMEX" call letters to Boston's

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. The WMEX calls subsequently moved to New Hampshire and then to Martha's Vineyard; , the call letters are used by WMEX in Boston and WMEX-LP in Rochester, New Hampshire. WCLX changed its call sign to WEXP on August 1, 2024, in a partial call swap with WEXP-LP in

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. On December 19, 2024, WEXP switched to a pop-up block programming format, branded as "Experimental Radio".WEXP Returns With Pop-up Block Programming "Experimental Radio"
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References

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Radio stations established in 1995 1995 establishments in New York (state) Essex County, New York