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Channel X Radio plays a mix of adult contemporary, oldies, and local music. It is home to one of the longest running oldies and retro music programs in the region. Furthermore, Channel X Radio covers local events and broadcasts live interviews from around the region. The station broadcasts local
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began to simulcast Channel X Radio. It broadcast at a lower power until December 27, 2007 when WCXV began broadcasting at the full 6 kW. Recently CanXus changed their
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was founded in Maine in May 1986. Shortly after that, CanXus submitted an application to put a 3,000–watt transmitter on the Green Ridge Road, or on the Caribou/
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and Fort Kent in a 45 miles (70 km) radius. Since then, the transmitter building has doubled in size, the transmitter has become a little bigger (now
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Because of the valley-like nature, and the small power that WCXX transmits, the signal is degraded in most of
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town line. On November 15, 1986 at 6:00 p.m., WCXU Caribou began operation on 97.7 
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Logo used between 1986 and 2023, while owned by the CanXus Broadcasting Corporation
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signal and a small transmitter, people north of Caribou couldn't get the signal.
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Network of radio stations in Aroostook County, Maine
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Channel X (New Zealand radio station)
Caribou, Maine
Madawaska, Maine
Van Buren, Maine
Aroostook County, Maine
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CBS Radio News
AP News
Sister stations
WOXO-FM
WPNO
WIGY-FM
WIGY
WEZR
1986
1988

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