WTAX-FM
WTAX-FM is a commercial radio station licensed to Sherman, Illinois, United States, and serving the Springfield metropolitan area. Owned by Saga Communications, it features a talk format in a full-time simulcast with WTAX. Studios are located on East Sangamon Avenue in Springfield and the transmitter is on 450th Avenue at Interstate 55 in Mount Fulcher, Illinois.
History
The station signed on as WPRC-FM on September 1, 1947. The station changed its call sign to WLRX on May 3, 1981. On June 1, 1986, the call sign was changed to WESZ. On November 15, 1994, it was changed to WWTE, and on September 16, 1996, to WYXY. From February 19, 2001, to April 7, 2005, the station aired a hot adult contemporary format as WMHX, "Mix 93.9". On April 8, 2005, the station flipped to adult hits as "93.9 ABE FM" and adopted the callsign WABZ.On October 2, 2013, the WQQL call sign was moved from 101.9 to 93.9, and the format was changed to classic hits as "Cool 93.9". On the same day, "ABE FM" was moved to FM translator 101.1 W266BZ.
On May 28, 2021, WQQL announced that the classic hits format would move to translator 93.5 W288DL on June 7; at that time, WQQL assumed the translator's previous format, a simulcast of AM station WTAX. The move would end the use of the "Cool" branding in Springfield, as the station would rebrand as "Rewind 93.5" with the move; the name had been used, originally on 101.9, since 1993. The move is also believed to be an answer to a previous move with WMAY, having a simulcast on WMAY-FM added the previous September, giving WTAX a similar option on FM radio. Concurrent with the move, 93.9 changed its call letters to WTAX-FM to match its new simulcast partner.