WXTU
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| City | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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| Broadcast area | Delaware Valley |
| Branding | 92-5 XTU |
| Slogan | "Philadelphia's Country Station" |
| Frequency | 92.5 MHz (also on HD Radio) 92.5 HD-2 for Future Country 92.5 HD-3: Radio Disney |
| First air date | 1948 (as KYW-FM) |
| Format | Country |
| ERP | 11,000 watts |
| HAAT | 279 meters |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 74213 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°02′21.00″N 75°14′13.00″W / 40.0391667°N 75.2369444°W |
| Former callsigns | KYW-FM (1948-1955) off the air (1955-1958) WIFI (1958-1983) |
| Owner |
CBS Radio (WXTU License Limited Partnership) |
| Sister stations | KYW, WIP-FM, WOGL, WPHT, WTDY-FM, KYW-TV, WPSG |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | 925xtu.com |
WXTU (92.5 FM, "92-5 XTU") is a Country music formatted radio station which is broadcast in the Philadelphia area. It is the largest country radio station in the United States based on listener cume (WUSN in Chicago is the second largest). The station plays a variety of country music, including current hits, as well as older hits. WXTU is owned by CBS Radio, and is Philadelphia's only country radio station. Its transmitter is located in the Roxborough section of the city. WXTU also broadcasts commercial free country music on one of its HD Radio channels, which is separate from the main programming. The WXTU studios and offices are located in the "555 Building" in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.
Since the advent of the Portable People Meter by Arbitron in Philadelphia, WXTU has become the most listened to country station in the United States (based on listener cume). This distinction was formerly held by WUSN in Chicago, owned by CBS Radio. Although, since PPM service is not yet available in Chicago, this is in dispute.
The first Philadelphia station on 92.5 was Westinghouse's KYW-FM. Westinghouse ultimately decided not to continue operating this station and relinquished its license. The original call sign of the current 92.5 was WIFI. Although it was always licensed as a Philadelphia station, WIFI in its early years was essentially a local station serving Norristown, Pennsylvania and neighboring communities in Montgomery County, broadcasting MOR music and talk along with some specialty music shows and local high school sports. WIFI at the end of the 1960s brought some of the first "progressive" or "underground" rock programming to the airwaves with Johnny Devereaux and other hosts. By 1970, WIFI had been acquired by General Cinema Corporation and had dropped locally originated programming in favor of the syndicated automated format "Hit Parade '70".
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