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WKPX
WKPX 88.5 FM "South Florida's Radio Alternative" is a non-commercial educational, non-profit, high school radio station owned and operated by the Broward County Public Schools with studios and transmitters inside Piper High School, northwest of Fort Lauderdale in Sunrise, Florida. The station broadcasts with the talent of students, school days from 7:30 am to 6 pm and also sometimes after school hours. After hours, broadcast students from Nova Southeastern University man the station, under the name Radio X.
WKPX broadcasts to
1989. It was the contention of CBS that WKPX's 3,000 watt signal on 88.5 was too close to Channel 6 on the FM band at 87.7, and the radio signal would interfere with the already weak television signal in Broward. As result, WKPX was not able to become a fully licensed facility. In late September 1991, the FCC granted a permanent license to WKPX.
In February 1993, the station celebrated its 10th anniversary.
On September 4, 1998 Nova Southeastern University's student run radio station, WNSU