WXRT
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| WXRT-FM | |
| Broadcast area | Chicago |
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| Branding | 93-XRT |
| Slogan | "Radio Chicago" "Chicago's Finest Rock" "Past, Present, Future" |
| First air date | 1972 |
| Frequency | 93.1 FM (MHz) 93.1-2 FM (WXRT-2 - 93-XRT New Music Channel) (HD Radio) |
| Format | AAA |
| Owner | CBS Radio |
| Website | WXRT website |
WXRT, also known as WXRT-FM, WXRT 93.1 or 93-XRT is an AAA radio station in Chicago, Illinois. For many years their slogan has been "Chicago's Finest Rock".
XRT, as it is called, plays a very broad library of mostly adult-oriented rock between the mid-'50s and present, including blues, reggae, folk-rock, pop, and rock and roll. There has been remarkably little disc jockey turnover at XRT since it began in 1972. Terri Hemmert is the DJ who has been with XRT the longest, since 1973. Norm Winer, who worked at legendary progressive rock radio stations WBCN in Boston and KSAN in San Francisco, has been the XRT Program Director for over 25 years. The station is well known for its Saturday Morning Flashback program, hosted by Wendy Rice (Norm's wife), and its Breakfast with the Beatles (a show that originated at WCKG in 1985) program on Sunday mornings, hosted by Terri Hemmert. "Blues Breakers" emphasizes the blues of Chicago artists and has been hosted by Tom Marker since 1984. "Jazz Transfusion", hosted by Barry Winograd, features a wide range of jazz from different eras and genres.
The station plays a wide variety of both older and newer music. They play well over 5,000 cuts on a regular basis. Most artists come from the classic rock or alternative rock genre, though they play many other styles as well. The format as it exists today began in 1972 as a night-time-only progressive rock experiment, sharing the 93.1 frequency with a variety of different ethnic and foreign language programming that aired during the daylight hours. The part-time progressive rock format was gradually expanded until by 1976 it aired 24 hours a day. By the 1980s the station played primarily alternative music for that time. As the 1990s approached the station opted to stay with its core audience and move to an AAA format and continued its evolution to what it is today.
WXRT was locally owned until 1995. It was then purchased by Westinghouse, which had acquired WMAQ 670 (which has since changed call letters to WSCR) a few years before. WXRT joined the CBS family in 1996 when Westinghouse and CBS merged. CBS had since merged with Infinity Radio keeping the Infinity name for its radio division. CBS and Viacom would merge in 2000. So WXRT is a CBS Radio station whose parent companies are CBS and Viacom. In December 2005, Infinity Radio became CBS Radio in anticipation of the CBS/Viacom split ups.
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