Pure Country 89 is teasing a format flip on the FM dial back to alternative rock. CIMX was hugely popular as 89X from 1991 to 2020 before Bell Media changed the format. FOX 2 - A familiar FM station ...

Windsor's 89X has returned to its alternative rock format five years after switching to a country. (Windsor's Alternative 89X) Five years after switching to country music, Windsor’s 89X is back with ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. The longtime 89X morning duo Dave and Chuck the Freak are ...

Detroit radio listeners upset about CIMX-FM's (88.7) switchover to country music can find some comfort a little bit further down the radio dial. WDZH-FM (98.7), which had been calling itself "The ...

The iconic alternative rock station 89X is back on the air after a five-year absence, flipping formats again on the morning of Thursday, Aug. 28, and reviving a cultural staple of the Detroit-Windsor ...

DETROIT – Former 89X radio host Mark McKenzie said he was abruptly laid off while on the air, but the station’s dramatic switch from alternative rock to country music after 30 years hurt him just as ...

Detroit's radio dial is set for a big change. CIMX-FM (88.7), the station that broke big as 89X amid the alternative-rock heyday of the '90s, announced on its website today that a new format is coming ...

The Windsor-based, Bell Media-owned station announced the format change on its website, saying that "a very new and VERY different sound" would be coming to 88.7 FM starting Thursday at noon. The ...

In 2020, “Stop” by Jane’s Addiction closed out what was believed to be the final broadcast of Windsor-based 89X, once one of metro Detroit’s most iconic radio stations. But at 8 a.m. on Thursday ...