Who owns 93x

The station's website still identified it as a rock station Thursday morning before getting deleted, but the station's FM broadcast features nothing but country and that apparent Trump impersonator. The station joins an already crowded country-radio market in Southwest Florida with FM country stations Cat Country It's ranked 16th out of 23 stations, according to August numbers from Nielsen. Gator Country is No. It's unclear how the change will fit with the FCC's rules about political content and advertising.

For example, radio and TV stations must allow opposing candidates to purchase an equal amount of broadcast time, if requested, according to the FCC. Connect with this reporter: Charles Runnells Facebook , charlesrunnells Twitter , crunnells1 Instagram. Finally, that following Sunday at 8pm, The move to create The Edge was due to the growing popularity of modern rock format nationwide, and to thwart Cargill Communications pending plans to roll out the format on the new Rev The Edge came on the air almost two years after KJJO switched to country music , and it did what KJ couldn't - it became a massive ratings success.

At one point, KEGE had the highest overall Arbitron market ratings of any modern rock station in the country. A station-sponsored annual concert known as the EdgeFest later 93XFest debuted soon after, and took place annually in Somerset, Wisconsin.

It was so popular that even rival Rev gave away tickets for it though not mentioning the "Edgefest" name. The annual festival in Somerset continued until , when "93X Riverfest" replaced it. Later that year, the two stations did a format swap of sorts, and Citadel merged with Cumulus Media on September 16, The Radio Wiki Explore.

Wiki Content. Biden's staff hasn't responded to an email and a Facebook message asking for confirmation that they'd contacted the station and why they did it. Formerly 93X, the radio station made national news in September when it dropped its alternative-rock format, took up country music and rebranded itself as Trump Country.

Now — six weeks after President Trump lost the election to Joe Biden — the station has dropped Trump and unveiled its new name. Some commenters had called the Trump Country rebranding a publicity stunt.

The top cuss word was the f-word, he said, and they initially wanted to name the station that. And we had to go with the fourth most-popular word, which was 'hell yeah. The station joins an already crowded country-radio market in Southwest Florida with FM country stations Cat Country