WLXE

WLXE
City	Rockville, Maryland
Broadcast area	Washington, D.C.
Frequency	1600 kHz
Format	Spanish Music
Power	1,000 watts (day) 500 watts (night)
Class	B
Facility ID	54506
Former callsigns	WINX
Owner	Multicultural Broadcasting (Multicultural Radio Broadcasting Licensee, LLC)

WLXE is a radio station broadcasting on 1600 kHz in the mediumwave AM band. Its studios and transmitters are located in Rockville, Maryland, and it serves the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. WLXE broadcasts music programming in the Spanish language. Its transmitter and antenna array are located off Hungerford Drive (Maryland Route 355), near the northern border of Rockville city. WLXE is under ownership of Multicultural Broadcasting.

During the 1960s, the station carried the call letters WINX and broadcast a Top-40 format. It was located at 8 Baltimore Road off Church Street near the intersection of Veirs Mill Road and Rockville Pike. It was consistently the third-ranked Top 40 station in the ratings, following WPGC and WEAM. The station shifted to an oldies format in the 1990s (simulcast on FM 94.3 Warrenton), then followed by a short stint as top-40 again around 1998 in the FM dominated market. Sold to Mega then Multicultural, they converted to Spanish-language programming.

External links

Query the FCC's AM station database for WLXE

Radio-Locator Information on WLXE

Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for WLXE

Radio stations in the Washington, D.C. market

By AM frequency	Washington, D.C. 630 980 1120 1260 1340 1450 1500 Maryland 540 570 900 950 1030 1050 1160 1540 1560 1580 1600 Northern Virginia 730 780 920 1190 1220 1250 1310 1390 1460 1480

By FM frequency	Washington, D.C. 88.5 89.3 90.1 90.9 93.9 96.3 97.1 98.7 99.5 100.3 101.1 103.5 107.3 Maryland 88.1 91.9 92.7 94.3 94.7 95.5 99.1 99.9 102.3 104.1 107.9 Northern Virginia 87.7 89.9 94.3 96.7 97.5 97.7 104.3 105.1 105.9 106.7 107.7

NOAA Weather Radio	162.45 162.55

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Spanish-language radio stations in the state of Maryland

Stations	WACA – Wheaton WBQH – Silver Spring WLXE – Rockville WLZL – College Park

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Maryland See also Classical Jazz Religious Spanish Smooth Jazz Other

Multicultural Broadcasting

Radio stations	KAHZ KALI KALI-FM KARI KATD KAZN KBLA KCHN KDFT KEST KFSG KIQI KLIB KMNY KMRB KSJX KVRI KWRU KXPA KXYZ WATB WAZN WEXY WFBR WGFS WHWH WJCC WJDM WKDM WLXE WLYN WNMA WPAT WTTM WWRU WZHF WZRC

Television stations	KILM (SonLife)²

¹ Controlled by Lincoln Financial Media under LMA.

Coordinates: 39°05′50″N 77°09′04″W / 39.09722°N 77.15111°W / 39.09722; -77.15111

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