WABX (107.5 FM broadcasting) is a radio station in Evansville, Indiana, owned by Midwest Communications, through licensee Midwest Communications, Inc. The station has aired a classic rock format since 1997.
Former WABX
From 1960 to 1984, WABX ("The station that glows in the dark") was the
call sign of a widely influential freeform/progressive rock radio station in Detroit, Michigan. In 1985, WABX's former consultant,
Paul Christy, purchased
WCFX/95.3 in Clare, Michigan, and subsequently parked the WABX calls on WCFX's sister station, 990 AM. WABX/990 ceased operations in 1988. The current 107.5 WABX
logo is substantially similar to the Detroit WABX logo used during that station's 1970s' heyday. The former Detroit WABX now broadcasts a
Country music as
WYCD.
Sale to Midwest Communications
It was announced on May 28, 2014, that Midwest Communications will purchase 9 of the 10 stations owned by South Central Communications. (This includes the Evansville Cluster which include WABX along with sister stations
WIKY-FM,
WLYD &
WSTO.) With this purchase, Midwest Communications will expand its portfolio of stations to Evansville, Knoxville and Nashville.
[ Midwest Communications Acquires South Central Communications] The sale was finalized on September 2, 2014, at a price of $72 million.
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