WGIX

Infobox Radio Station
name = WGIX
area = Gouverneur, NY
branding = "Cool 95.3"
airdate =
frequency = 95.3 (MHz)
format = Oldies
erp = 3,000 watts
class = B
owner = Community Broadcasting, LLC

WGIX (95.3 FM, "Cool 95.3") is a 3,000 watt radio station licensed to Gouverneur, New York. Owned and operated by Community Broadcasters, LLC, it broadcasts an oldies format. The station carries a national news feed from CNN at the top of each hour. The station has a local disc jockey, John "Stolf" Astolfi, (weekdays 6-9am), and local news courtesy of John Moore at WWTI-TV 50 (Watertown, New York). The remainder of the schedule is filled by satellite, with no local news after that.

tation history

WGIX signed-on for the first time on Monday evening, December 4, 1967, as WIGS-FM on 92.7MHz. The 3,000 watt station was put on-the-air to provide coverage to areas that were unable to receive the signal of (or received interference with) the 1,000 watt WIGS (AM) 1230. The two stations simulcasted originally.

Over the years,when|date=June 2008 the FM station changed call letters to WLUF. At noon on February 25, 1981, WIGS-FM moved to its current frequency of 95.3MHz to make room for WPAC (now WQTK). In later years, the simulcast ended, with the AM side going country and the FM taking on an adult contemporary format.

In February 1991, both stations suddenly left the air but returned with new owners that fall. The Wireless Works had already owned WSLB and WPAC in Ogdensburg, as well as WZOZ in Oneonta, New York.

In recent years, The Wireless Works formed an all-oldies trimulcast of WSLB/WIGS/WGIX as "FSR Full Service Radio." WIGS signed-off permanently in the mid-1990s, and the two remaining stations continued a simulcast until WSLB became "Talk 1400" in the early part of this decade. WGIX became "Oldies 95.3" then "Cool 95.3."

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