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Philadelphia's Country Station - WXTU
City of license	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Broadcast area	Delaware Valley
First air date	1940s (as KYW-FM)
Frequency	92.5 MHz 92.5 HD-2 for Future Country
Format	Country Music
Owner	Beasley Broadcast Group

WXTU, known as "92-5 XTU, Philadelphia's Country Station", is a Country Music radio station which is broadcast in the Philadelphia area. It is the second largest country radio station in the United States based on listener cume (WUSN in Chicago is the largest). The station plays a variety of country music, including current hits, as well as older hits. WXTU is owned by Beasley Broadcast Group, 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.

Contents 1 On-air schedule 1.1 Weekdays 1.2 Weekenders 1.3 Specialty progr amming 2 History 3 Affiliations 4 External links

• 6 am to 10 am - Evans & Andie
• 10 am to 3 pm - Leigh Richards
• 3 pm to 7 pm - Kris Stevens
• 7 pm to 12 am - Razz
• 12 am to 6 am - "After MidNite with Blair Garner" (syndicated)

• Catfish
• Angel Donato
• Rick Edwards
• Frank Michaels
• Jeff Ryan
• Christy Springfield

• Weekends 12 am to 6 am - Aftermidnite Weekends with Larry Morgan
• Saturday 6 am to 9 am - Weekly Country Music Countdown
• Sunday 6 am to 11 am - American Country Countdown with Kix Brooks
• Sunday 11 am to 12 pm - Stars of Country with Kris Stevens

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 and neighboring communities in Montgomery County, broadcasting MOR music and talk along with some local sports events. 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 dropped locally originated programming in favor of the syndicated automated format "Hit Parade '70". After two or three years of this and other automated programming, WIFI instituted a high-energy AM-style rock format. For a couple of years, WIFI was the only true Top 40 station in Philadelphia following WFIL's move to an Adult Contemporary format in the late 1970s, but after WCAU-FM debuted its Hot Hits format in October 1981, WIFI's ratings fell as CAU-FM quickly grabbed most of the teen audience. A move to a new-wave rock format, branded as "I-92" and "Rock of the Eighties" (1982), attracted more press attention than listenership. A move to an Urban Contemporary format as "Studio 92", with a call sign change to WXTU, followed but failed to find an audience. On March 1, 1984 at 1pm ET the station switched to the current country format. The very first country song on WXTU was "Are You Ready For The Country" by Waylon Jennings.

All local WXTU air talent belong to the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA).

• Philly FM Radio History
• WXTU Website
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WXTU