WOXO-FM
country music radio station in Norway, Maine, United States
WOXO-FM (92.7 FM, "WOXO Country 92.7 & 100.7") is a radio station licensed to serve Norway, Maine, United States. Established in 1970 as WNWY-FM, the station is owned by Bennett Radio Group. WOXO-FM broadcasts a country music format, and simulcasts on Mexico sister station WIGY-FM 100.7.
History
WOXO-FM signed on December 12, 1970, as WNWY-FM under the ownership of Oxford Hills Radio Communications. The station originally operated on 105.5 FM with a middle of the road format. By 1974, WNWY had moved to 92.7 FM, a change made to accommodate the move of Skowhegan station WTOS-FM from 107.1 to 105.1, and was programming contemporary music, country music, pop, and gold.
Richard Gleason, the general manager of WSKW and WTOS in Skowhegan, bought WNWY-FM for $120,000 in 1975; the following year, the call letters were changed to WOXO to reflect the station's service to Oxford County and the Oxford Hills. By 1978, WOXO's top 40 format was 80-percent simulcast with WXIV (1450 AM) in South Paris, which Gleason acquired in 1976. In 1981, WOXO dropped the top 40 format in favor of country music after Gleason conducted a survey that found that a country-formatted station would be highly rated. WOXO-FM's country format was simulcast on 1450 AM, which had taken on the WOXO call letters, until the early 1980s, when the AM station shifted to religious programming; in 1986, that station changed its call letters to WKTQ. In 1990, Gleason bought WTBM (100.7 FM) in Mexico; that station then became a simulcast of WOXO-FM.
WOXO-FM's country format moved to WKTQ, which took on the WOXO call letters, on August 1, 2016.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “WOXO-FM” as country music radio station in Norway, Maine, United States. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7954113. Authority coordinates are 44.296, -70.618. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1970, 1974, 1975 and 1978.
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