WXMX is a commercial
mainstream rock
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Format background
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radio station
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near
Memphis, TN
Memphis is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the seat of Shelby County in the southwest part of the state; it is situated along the Mississippi River. With a population of 633,104 at the 2020 U.S. census, Memphis is the second-mos ...
. It is owned by
Cumulus Media
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and is branded as "98-1 The Max". The station's studios are located at the Memphis Radio Group building in East Memphis, and the transmitter site is in
Cordova, Tennessee
Cordova is a community in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States. Cordova lies east of Memphis, north of Germantown, south of Bartlett, and northwest of Collierville at an elevation of 361 feet (110 meters).
The majority of Cordova has been a ...
.
The station adopted its current format on April 1, 2005. For many years, the station aired the "Drake and Zeke" morning show. In 2015, Zeke Logan passed away and the show became known as "Drake in the Morning." The show lasted until 2020, when Drake Hall departed the station.
The new morning show was called "Danny and the Jar," featuring Dannie Burns and Chris Jarman. In December 2020, Jarman passed away.
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''Drake in the Morning''
Mainstream rock radio stations in the United States
XMX
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M'Raïhi, David Naccache, Jacques Stern, and Serge Vaudenay. According to the
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Cumulus Media radio stations
Radio stations established in 1985
XMX
In cryptography, xmx is a block cipher designed in 1997 by David
M'Raïhi, David Naccache, Jacques Stern, and Serge Vaudenay. According to the
designers it "uses public-key-like operations as confusion and diffusion means." The
cipher was desig ...
1985 establishments in Tennessee
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