Wow, I'm a little (okay, a lot) late in seeing this...thanks for the nice comments, guys! When I bought the station, it had an almost-CHR format, but it was very poorly executed. I'm talking poorly executed to the point that I had to yell at somebody every time I listented to the radio. However, fast-forward two years, and take into account that I hired one of the best managers in the business (that'd be Spindoctor), and fired just about everybody else responsible for the "poorly executed" format, and you have what is now WFXY, a station I'm very proud of. Random people stop me in the produce isle at WalMart when they see the radio station logo on my shirt and tell me they love listening, and in small market radio, that means a lot.
The stream does sound great, but our on-air signal isn't too shabby, either. In fact, in our market, I'd stack WFXY's on-air sound against any other station you can pick up, FM or otherwise. It isn't the typical scratchy AM sound most people are used to, because I've made investments in good equipment. I think we've shattered the myth that AM cannot sound good.
Historically, WFXY was always a Top-40 station, and it simply never shifted to Oldies like so many of the heritage AM Top-40 stations did. However, we could play almost anything short of Bohemian Polka and it wouldn't be nearly as important as the local content. Things like Tradio, and local news and sports, are what really make or break small market stations these days. We don't really put a lot of focus into "being an AM station". Lots of owners made the big mistake of convincing themselves they were doomed to failure because they had AM stations...and guess what? They failed. I, on the other hand, chose to realize the benefit of believing in a community and station, and I'm very happy with the results.
