Radio Seacoast Oldies (WXEX)

WXEX (1540 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a '60s & '70s Rock 'n' Roll plus Motown music format. Licensed to Exeter, New Hampshire, USA and covering the Seacoast region. The station's license was acquired locally by Andy Hartmann and Steve Thomas under the name of Aruba Capital Holdings, LLC The AM 1540 frequency in Exeter went on the air in 1966 as WKXR under the ownership of Frank Estes, who also owned WKXL in Concord, New Hampshire. Estes sold the station in 1978, and on March 10, 1982, the station was renamed WMYF; by the 1990s, the station held an adult standards format.In 1998, after Capstar acquired WMYF from CBS Radio (which had obtained the station after its purchase of American Radio Systems), the station began to simulcast the news/talk format of WGIR, a sister station in Manchester, New Hampshire; a call change to WGIP followed on October 2. The WMYF call letters and adult standards format would later be moved down the AM dial to 1380, where they remain today.After WGIP was placed into the Aloha Station Trust in 2008 as a result of the privatization of Clear Channel Communications (who acquired the station after several mergers), the station was sold to Aruba Capital Holdings, LLC in 2009. After Aruba closed on the sale on March 9, 2009, the call letters were changed to WXEX and the WGIR simulcast was discontinued.