WXQW
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| Broadcast area | Mobile metropolitan area |
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| Frequency | 660 kHz |
| Branding | Jox Mobile 660 |
| Programming | |
| Format | Sports |
| Affiliations | ESPN Radio |
| Ownership | |
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| History | |
First air date | 1964 (as WMOO Mobile) |
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Former frequencies | 1550 kHz (1964–1988) |
| Technical information | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 2541 |
| Class | D |
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Transmitter coordinates | 30°35′50.7″N 87°52′58″W / 30.597417°N 87.88278°W |
| Repeater | 104.1 WDLT-FM HD3 (Saraland) |
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Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | www |
WXQW (660 AM) is a sports radio station licensed to Fairhope, Alabama, and serving the Mobile metropolitan area. The station is owned by Cumulus Media with studios and offices on Dauphin Street in Midtown Mobile. WXQW simulcasts many of the Alabama-centered sports shows from sister station WJOX-FM in Birmingham. Nights and weekends, it carries ESPN Radio programming.
By day, WXQW broadcasts at 10,000 watts non-directional, covering parts of Alabama, Mississippi and the Florida Panhandle. But at night, it reduces power to 19 watts to avoid interfering with other stations on 660 kHz, a clear-channel frequency. WXQW's transmitter is on Pollard Road at Newman Road in Daphne, Alabama.
The station began as a country & western outlet in 1964, later broadcasting contemporary Christian music, children's radio, urban contemporary gospel, all-news radio from CNN Headline News, blues music, and syndicated talk formats in its years on the air.