WNCX (98.5 FM, "98.5 NCX") is a Cleveland classic rock music formatted radio station. Its current studios are located in Cleveland’s historic Halle Building, in the Playhouse Square District. Its transmitter is located in nearby North Royalton, Ohio.
The station is currently owned and operated by CBS Radio, a division of CBS Corporation. It was among the first stations in Cleveland broadcasting a digital signal using HD Radio.
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WNCX (98.5 FM, "98.5 NCX") is a Cleveland classic rock music formatted radio station. Its current studios are located in Cleveland’s historic Halle Building, in the Playhouse Square District. Its transmitter is located in nearby North Royalton, Ohio.
The station is currently owned and operated by CBS Radio, a division of CBS Corporation. It was among the first stations in Cleveland broadcasting a digital signal using HD Radio.
The station first went on the air in 1948 as WERE-FM and was the FM outlet for WERE (AM), where it primarily simulcast the programming of its more popular AM sister station over the next 24 years. WERE-FM actually signed on one year prior to its AM counterpart.
The stations were purchased by General Cinema Corporation in 1972, which would go on to change the call letters of the FM station to WGCL on August 15, 1972, while it flipped the station from its fully automated format to Top 40 as “G-98.” WGCL began as an affiliate of Drake-Chenault's "Solid Gold" and ...
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