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| Broadcast area | Augusta metropolitan area |
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| Frequency | 103.1MHz |
| Branding | Foxie 103 Jamz |
| Programming | |
| Format | Mainstream urban |
| Ownership | |
| Owner |
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| WAKB,WTHB,WAEG | |
| History | |
First air date | 1968 (as WZZW) |
Former call signs | WZZW (1968–1985) |
Call sign meaning | We'reFoXieAugusta |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 15848 |
| Class | A |
| ERP | 6,000watts |
| HAAT | 92 meters |
| Links | |
Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | foxie103jamz.com |
WFXA-FM (103.1MHz) is amainstream urbanradio station inAugusta, Georgia known asFoxie 103 Jamz. The station is owned byPerry Publishing and Broadcasting. The station's studios (which are shared with its other sister stations) and transmitter are co-located at the aptly named intersection of Broadcast Drive and Radio Station Road inNorth Augusta, South Carolina.
The station signed on in 1968 as WZZW with an automatedbeautiful music format. It was one of the first stations in the Augusta market to broadcast in full stereo. The station flipped to urban on February 1, 1985 as WFXA. In 2001, the station was purchased byRadio One.
WFXA was formerly home to the syndicatedDoug Banks Morning Show and was the only Radio One station to carry the show. When former owner Radio One sold their Augusta cluster toOklahoma City-basedPerry Broadcasting in August 2007,Doug Banks was dropped forThe Rickey Smiley Morning Show.
On January 11, 2008 at 2:58 pm WFXA relaunched itself, changing its branding from Foxie 103.1 Jamz, "The People's Station" to 103 Jamz The Fox, The Hip-Hop & R&B Leader".
Around the end of 2009, WFXA once again started identifying as Foxie 103 Jamz. Its direct competition isWPRW andWIIZ. In January 2020, when The Rickey Smiley Morning Show was sent to sister stationWAKB whenThe Tom Joyner Morning Show went off the air for good, It was replaced by the new syndicated urban morning show The Morning Hustle.
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