On June 3, 1947, Aaron B. Robinson, trading as the Dixie Broadcasting Company, filed with the Federal Communications Commission to build a new daytime-only radio station in Jackson.
Robinson had previously worked from 1943 to 1946 at WTJS, the station of The Jackson Sun,[3] and already had built WCMA in Corinth, Mississippi, and WENK in Union City.
[7] These changes took effect in July 1949,[8] by which time WDXI had moved into permanent studio quarters in the newly completed Williams Building at Lafayette and Highland streets the preceding March.
[14][15] The Williams Building was heavily damaged by fire on the morning of January 21, 1972, beginning in the WDXI suite on the third floor, which completely collapsed.
[16] The last person in the building before the blaze broke out was a WDXI announcer who had stayed late;[16] the studios were completely destroyed, and within a week the wrecking ball had come to demolish the structure.
[19] That same year, an anniversary edition of the Sun noted that a reference to "Dixie" in Jackson had a "50–50 chance" of being about WDXI, not the South.
[34] By 2022, when the station was taken silent, Hunt Sr. had suffered several strokes and other medical complications and was reported to be in a long-term care facility.