WOXY · 97.7 FM · Cincinnati, OH
WOXY 97X countdowns
97X, BAM! The future of rock and roll
RockLists holds 12 countdowns from WOXY 97X: one year-end countdowns covering 1984 and eleven all-time, decade and special countdowns, totaling 5,505 chart positions.
Year-end countdowns
Countdown series
All-time countdowns
- All-time countdown · 1989 Modern Rock 500 (1989)
- All-time countdown · 1991 Modern Rock 500 (1991)
- All-time countdown · 1994 Modern Rock 500 (1994)
- All-time countdown · 1996 Modern Rock 500 (1996)
- All-time countdown · 1999 Modern Rock 500 (1999)
- All-time countdown · 2000 Modern Rock 500 (2000)
- All-time countdown · 2001 Modern Rock 500 (2001)
- All-time countdown · 2002 Modern Rock 500 (2002)
- All-time countdown · 2003 Modern Rock 500 (2003)
- All-time countdown · 2005 Modern Rock 500 (2005)
- All-time countdown · 2006 Modern Rock 500 (2006)
Every WOXY 97X year-end number one
| Year | Number one song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|
| 1984 | Two Tribes Frankie Goes to Hollywood | WOXY Top 10 Songs of 1984 |
About WOXY 97X
WOXY 97.7 FM, "97X" from Oxford, Ohio, was one of the first six alternative stations in the country and became internationally famous when Dustin Hoffman recited its slogan in the film Rain Man. Its Modern Rock 500 all-time countdowns, aired every Memorial Day weekend, are archived here for 1989 through 2006.
Doug and Linda Balogh launched 97X in 1983 from Oxford, Ohio, home of Miami University, serving the Cincinnati and Dayton markets with a modern rock format that made it one of the first six stations in the United States to play alternative music full-time. The station's slogan, "97X, BAM! The future of rock and roll," became a pop-culture catchphrase in 1988 when Dustin Hoffman's character repeated it in Rain Man.
Each Memorial Day weekend WOXY aired the Modern Rock 500, a listener-voted countdown of the top 500 modern rock songs of all time. RockLists holds eleven editions of the countdown from 1989 to 2006, making it the deepest run of all-time lists from any single station in the archive.
WOXY was sold to First Broadcasting Investment Partners in 2004 for 5.6 million dollars, and at midnight on May 14, 2004, the FM signal signed off with a live version of "Sunday Bloody Sunday," the first song played when the station launched. The station had streamed online since 1998 and continued as an internet station, briefly shutting down in September 2006 before being revived under new ownership. WOXY.com finally ceased operations in 2010.
- Call letters
- WOXY
- Frequency
- 97.7 FM
- Market
- Cincinnati, OH
- Owner
- Balogh Broadcasting (through 2004)
- Format
- Modern Rock
- Format since
- 1983–2010
- More
- Wikipedia
- Ranked with
- Alternative & Modern Rock
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