WRNX

Infobox Radio station
name = WRNX


city = Amherst, Massachusetts
area = Springfield, Massachusetts
branding =
slogan = "Quality Rock"
airdate =
frequency = 100.9 MHz
format = Adult Album Alternative
erp = 1,350 watts
haat = 211 meters (692 feet)
class = A
facility_id = 25906
coordinates = coord|42|18|14|N|72|31|59|W
callsign_meaning =
former_callsigns = WHCI
owner = Clear Channel Communications
licensee = CC Licenses, LLC
sister_stations =
webcast = [http://www.wrnx.com/pages/listenlive.html Listen Live]
website = http://www.wrnx.com/
affiliations =

WRNX (100.9 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve Amherst, Massachusetts. The station is owned by Clear Channel Communications and licensed to CC Licenses, LLC. It airs an Adult Album Alternative music format.cite web |title=Station Information Profile |work=Arbitron |url=http://www.arbitron.com/]

The station was assigned the WRNX call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on September 21, 1990.cite web |title=Call Sign History |url=http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=25906&Callsign=WRNX |work=FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database]

Programming

In addition to its usual music programming, WRNX has served as the flagship station for University of Massachusetts athletics broadcasts. [cite web |work=Official University of Massachusetts Athletics Website |url=http://umassathletics.cstv.com/genrel/012006aad.html |title=UMass & WRNX Extend Radio Deal For Two More Years |date=2006-01-20] The station has carried all of the school's men's basketball, hockey and football games plus coaches shows and women's basketball games since 2002.

Ownership

In spring 2003, Pamal Broadcasting Ltd. (James Morrell, chairman/CEO) reached an agreement to acquire WPNI and WRNX from Western Massachusetts Radio Co., (Thomas G. Davis, president) for a reported sale price of $8 million. [cite news |date=2003-04-07 |work=Broadcasting & Cable |title=Changing hands |url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-22984498_ITM] The broker for this transaction was Doug Ferber of Star Media Group, Inc. At the time of the purchase, WRNX broadcast a rock-leaning adult album alernative music format. [cite news |title="The Duke of Portland" is Dead |date=2003-01-31 |url=http://www.fybush.com/nerw-030331.html |work=NorthEast Radio Watch |first=Scott |last=Fybush]

In the summer of 2006, Clear Channel Communications (John Hogan, CEO, radio) reached an agreement to acquire WRNX from Pamal Broadcasting Ltd (James Morrell, chairman/CEO) in exchange for five radio stations on other states. [cite news |work=Broadcasting & Cable |title=Deals |date=2006-07-10 |url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-15933981_ITM] The other stations in the deal are WBPM and WGHQ in upstate New York, WZRT and WSYB in Rutland, Vermont, and WPYR in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. [cite news |title=CBS To Sell Buffalo, Rochester Clusters |date=2006-05-29 |url=http://www.fybush.com/NERW/2006/060529/nerw.html |work=NorthEast Radio Watch |first=Scott |last=Fybush] Published reports state that no cash changed hands in this transaction. [cite news |work=The Republican |date=2006-05-17 |first=William |last=Freebairn |url=http://www.masslive.com/business/republican/index.ssf?/base/business-0/114787078959880.xml&coll=1 |title=Radio swap in works]

Alumni

Rachel Maddow, host of "The Rachel Maddow Show" on Air America Radio and a political analyst for MSNBC, got her start as an on-air personality through a contest at WRNX. [cite news |work=The Advocate |url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-13176024_ITM |title=Left and centered: Air America radio's Rachel Maddow is out, brilliant, and ready to defend the other L word: liberal |first=Etelka |last=Lehoczky |date=2004-08-31] Maddow says, "I was crashing with friends in Massachusetts, working odd jobs, when they told me to try out. And they hired me on the spot. Radio came to me, I didn't come to it." [cite news |work=Southern Voice Atlanta |title=Two ‘L-words’; Morning host adds 'lesbian' to 'liberal' radio's success |date=2005-01-28 |first=Dyana |last=Bagby |url=http://www.sovo.com/2005/1-28/arts/feature/lwords.cfm |quote=]

References

External links

* [http://www.wrnx.com/ WRNX official website]
*FMQ|WRNX
*FML|WRNX
*FMARB|WRNX