WOXR (90.9 FM) is a

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broadcasting a

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format. Licensed to

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, United States, the station is currently owned by

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as the flagship station of the VPR Classical network.

History

The station went on the air as WAVX in November 2004, a

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station owned by Christian Ministries. WAVX was sold to Vermont Public Radio in 2007 to fund upgrades at sister station WGLY-FM (the "Wave" format would subsequently move to a

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subchannel of WGLY). Christian Ministries ended its operation of the station on August 29, with VPR relaunching the station as the flagship station of VPR Classical two days later. The callsign was changed to WOXR, a homage to

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, on September 26.

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* OXR Radio stations established in 2004 Classical music radio stations in the United States NPR member stations {{NewYork-radio-station-stub