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WXNR
WXNR is a commercial radio station in Grifton, North Carolina, broadcasting to the Greenville-New Bern-Jacksonville, North Carolina area on 99.5 FM.
WXNR airs a Top 40 format branded as "Hot 99.5".
History.
WXNR came from the original call letters of WTND. And before that it was WVVY FM playing adult contemporary and then R&B music as "Wavvy 99.5" (with no rap) in 1988 through 1993 it switched to country music WTND and was known as "Thunder Country
" until 1996 when the call letters changed to WXNR and the name changed to "New Rock 99X". The station went through many station identities (i.e. Extreme Radio, New Rock, etc.) until 2006 when the name was changed to "99.5 The X" with the positioning statement "It Just Rocks".
In 2002, WXNR was left as the only Howard Stern affiliate in the Southeastern United States. At that time, the station taped the show and broadcast it in the evenings.
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