Capstar and Chancellor Media announced in August 1998 that they would merge (Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst was a major shareholder in both companies);[11] upon the merger's completion in July 1999, the combined company was named AMFM Inc.[12] AMFM was in turn acquired by Clear Channel Communications in a deal announced on October 4, 1999,[13] and completed in August 2000.
[16] After Aruba closed on the sale on March 9, 2009, the call sign was changed to WXEX[6] and the WGIR simulcast was discontinued.
[18] On August 11, 2011, the station began simulcasting with 92.1 WXEX-FM in Sanford, Maine, which Aruba had acquired earlier in the year.
[20] Effective January 31, 2017, Aruba Capital sold WXEX, WXEX-FM, and W246BP to LMA partner Port Broadcasting.
During Labor Day Weekend in 2018, WXEX and WXEX-FM stunted with a broadcast of the Drake-Chenault documentary The History of Rock and Roll.
[21] Port Broadcasting agreed to sell WXEX, WXEX-FM, and translators W246BP and W298CU to the Educational Media Foundation (EMF) for $690,000 in April 2023.