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'''WCDX''' is a [[Mainstream Urban]] radio station that serve the [[Richmond, Virginia|Richmond]] area of [[Virginia]]. It is [[city of license|licensed]] to [[Mechanicsville, Virginia|Mechanicsville]], and share the broadcasting tower owned by Clear Channel in Western Richmond with [[WWLB]] and [[WRXL]].
== History ==
WCDX92.7 started as an FCC assigned frequency for Mechanicsville Va., in what is called the "table of allocations" in 1968,but it would be 18 years before the station would actually go on the air.Throughout the late sixies, seventies, and early eighties there were many applicants applying to the FCC trying to get the 92.7 assigment, including Sinclair Telecable,owners of local R&B outlet WANT-AM.Due to different and more involved federal regulations on the assigment of broadcast licenses,the legal battle over who would get 92.7 lasted from 1968 thru early 1984.By late 1984,Sinclair Telecable emerged as the winner of the 92.7 license.By this time they had sold off WANT-AM.Then shortly after the assigment,92.7 became a CP (construction permit)in [[1984]] as '''WPUF''' on 92.7 MHz. These calls were never actually used on-air, however.Due to Sinclair's heavy involvment in the local Urban format at WANT-AM,and the fact Richmond only had one Urban station (WPLZ) it was thought,with thier stronger signal in Richmond,the station would go Urban.But to everyone's surprise,the announcment was made they were going to sign on as a Top 40/CHR station In July, 1985, the station changed calls to '''WZZR''' and signed on as a a top 40 radio station known as "Lazer 9393Lazer" later that year. It had stiff competition from legendary top 40 station '''WRVQ'''. Lazer 93"93Lazer" never caught on in the Richmond market because of it's weak signal vs WRVQ'a powerful 200,000 watt signal,although a night DJ they had at the time who called himself "Kid Crockett"" later became nationally famous syndicated host "Kid Kelly" of the "Backtraxx" programs. In February of 1987,management changed the calls to '''WCDX''' and flipped the station to Adult Contemporary' as "92.7 "WCDX" after several days of on-air stunting first running a comtinous heartbeat then playing the Rolling Stones "Satisfaction" over and over again.The WCDX calls were to refer to the thenthier new CD configuration and to note that the station played music off CDs,The ratingratings for WCDX stayed low mostly dues to competition from better established WEZS (now WMXB).In November,under consultant Don Kelly and Operations Manager ( and leter General Manager ) Ben Miles,they became "Power 93"'', which was a "Churban", Urban mixeedmixed with some CHR crossover tunes. By the early 90's, all non-urban music was gone. Even with a weak signal, 92.7 was a very successful station in the Richmond market.Juan Conde,currently a popular local Richmond TV News Anchor,started his broadcast career as a DJ at WCDX in 1988.
In [[1996]], a series of events started by crosstown owners of WDCK-FM Keymarket Communications,with the intention to moving 96.5 WDCK's city of license from Williamsburg to a ___location closer to Richmond occurred that caused [[WDYL]] which was on 92.1 to move to a new frequency on 105.7, and WCDX moved to the better 92.1 frequency. The 92.7 frequency was deleted to permit '''WUVA''', a station on 92.7 in [[Charlottesville, Virginia]], to increase its power.(Despite thier efforts,Keymarket was unable to get approval for thier intended city of license transfer of WDCK,and sold the station,now WKLR,shortly thereafter)
[[Category:Richmond, Virginia media|CDX]]
[[Category:Urban contemporary radio stations]]
One of WCDX's most famous allumni is recent American Idol contestant (and former Richmond Resident) Elliott Yamin,who was an overnight DJ with the station in the 90s.
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