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WARX

Radio station in Lewiston, Maine, United States

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WARX (93.9 FM) is a non-commercial radio station in Lewiston, Maine that features worship music programming from Air1. It is under ownership of the Educational Media Foundation.

The station dates back to WCOU-FM, the first FM station in Lewiston-Auburn. Following WCOU, the station has had several previous on-air slogans including WAYU as country and WXGL Eagle 94 as an oldies formatted station.

Following acquisition by Fuller-Jeffrey Broadcasting in 1994, the station simulcasted WCYY for over 10 years until the transfer to The Last Bastion Station Trust, LLC, when it switched to a simulcast of WCLZ. The station (at that time WCYI), along with co-owned WCLZ, was transferred to The Last Bastion Station Trust, LLC, due to parent company Citadel Broadcasting buying out ABC Radio. The station kept the Opie & Anthony Show . In October 2007 Saga Communications bought WCLZ, dropping the simulcast but keeping the Opie & Anthony Show, thus resulting in WCYI programming an automated Blues format in October 2007.

On February 21, 2008, it was announced that the Educational Media Foundation bought WCYI for a reported $1 million. In early March 2008 it was report that WCYI would likely become an affiliate of EMF's K-Love contemporary Christian music format. However, later the same month, it was reported that the station would carry Air 1 (sister network to K-Love) according to EMF's vice president of communications. On August 15, 2008, the station changed its call letters to WARX.

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