As Dustin Hoffman said in the movie Rain Man, "97X--Bam!--The Future of Rock & Roll"...launched our Alternative (Modern Rock) format in September, 1983. Entrepreneurs Doug and Linda Balogh had bought Oxford, Ohio's WOXY 97.7 FM for $375,000 with hopes to try something completely different from the station's struggling Top 40 format. That "something different" was Alternative and Modern Rock, and our archivist's best record-keeping indicates we were the sixth commercial Modern Rock station in the country. On Labor Day weekend in 1983, we kicked off our new format with U2's "Sunday Bloody Sunday."
Over the years, we've accumulated quite a bit of praise from the popular music press including Rolling Stone, Spin, Alternative Press, Esquire, USA Today, Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati CityBeat, Dayton Daily News and countless radio industry publications. But the most important praise to us comes from our listeners, both our best cheerleaders and sometimes harshest critics and without whom none of this would be possible.
September of 1998 marked a new era for 97X, when we starting simulcasting our FM broadcast on the Internet. Listening to Internet radio in 1998 over a 33.6k dial-up connection (56k if you were lucky) was a less than excellent experience, but we had people listening around the country and as far away as the United Kingdom. Every year, our online listenership has doubled and today, we use the Internet to broadcast to tens of thousands of people from around the world. Loyal 97X listeners have reported in from Melbourne to London, Tokyo to Edmonton, Sweden to Nepal, and Anchorage to the South Pole. Thanks to an article in São Paulo's Folha de S. Paulo by Álvaro Pereira Júunior, we have quite the following in Brazil.
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This Ohio station — one of modern rock's first champions — went Web-only in 2004. Though WOXY specializes in up-and-coming bands with funny names like Wake the Bear and the Gingerbread Patriots, you'll still find some Death Cab for Cutie and Afghan Whigs in the mix. A simple interface shows you what's coming up next.
source: entertainment weekly's ew.com.
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