KMXG is a radio station licensed to Clinton, Iowa

Clinton, Iowa

Clinton is a city in and the county seat of Clinton County, Iowa, United States. The population was 26231as of 2010. Clinton, along with DeWitt, Iowa , was named in honor of the seventh governor of New York, DeWitt Clinton. Clinton is the principal city of the Clinton Micropolitan Statistical...

, whose format is adult contemporary. The station broadcasts at a power

Effective radiated power

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 of 100 kW. Its transmitter is located on 225th Street in rural LeClaire in Scott County

Scott County, Iowa

-2010 census:The 2010 census recorded a population of 165,224 in the county, with a population density of . There were 71,835 housing units, of which 66,765 were occupied.-2000 census:...

.

KMXG is owned by Clear Channel Communications

Clear Channel Communications

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, with studios located in Davenport, Iowa. Other stations located in the same complex are KUUL-FM

KUUL

KUUL is a radio station licensed to East Moline, Illinois, whose format is oldies. The station's frequency is 101.3 MHz, and broadcasts at a power of 50 kW. Its transmitter is located in Port Byron, Illinois....

, WLLR-FM

WLLR-FM

WLLR-FM is a radio station licensed to Davenport, Iowa, whose format is modern country music. The station's frequency is 103.7 MHz, and broadcasts at a power of 100 kW....

, KCQQ-FM

KCQQ

KCQQ is an FM radio station licensed to Davenport, Iowa with a classic rock format. The station's frequency is 106.5 MHz, and broadcasts at a power of 100 kW, with transmitter located in rural LeClaire in Scott County....

, WFXN and WOC.

History

KMXG originally had studios in Clinton and was co-owned with KROS 1340 AM. At that time, 96.1 had the call letters KROS-FM and later KSAY.

During its years in Clinton, KSAY operated as a religious station serving primarily the Gateway area (Clinton and Jackson counties in Iowa; Whiteside and Carroll in Illinois) from 1974 until 1986. During this time, a February 1985 fire that struck the building where the studios for KSAY and KROS were located knocked the station off the air for several days; when the station returned to the air in a new studio, the first program was a two-hour show devoted to the fire and volunteers that helped get KROS-KSAY back on the air.

Upon 96.1 FM's move to the Quad Cities, the station was known as KILO-FM (K-Lite) and formatted adult contemporary music. The call letters changed several years later to KMJC ("Magic 96") before adopting the current KMXG ("Mix 96") call signs.

During the holiday season (2008-Present) Mix 96 switches to an all-holiday music format.