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He would also entertain listeners on "Hillbilly Hit Parade" airing daily at 12:15 p.m. On Saturday nights, he could be heard on a show called "Heaps of Corn".

The story goes that shortly before the station was to sign on, the FCC asked owner Al Lowe Sr. if he had call letters in mind, he looked down at a partially covered box of Kleenex on his desk and said, yes, "WNEX".

In a matter of weeks, the expense of running the station (particularly the power bill; UHF transmitters were very inefficient) caused the owners to rethink their investment in the blossoming television industry.

In turning the station off, WNEX asked that Macon's channel 47 not be deleted from the FCC database while the owner tried to find a way to return to the air.

In the 1960s, when WNEX became affiliated with ABC, it began airing Don McNeill's popular "Breakfast Club," "Paul Harvey News," and "Howard Cosell's "Speaking of Sports."

Aubrey Hammock, Lamar Studstill, Merritt Buddy Wheeler, Dennis Hayes, Oscar Leverette, Sid Ingram, Jim Pryor, Bill Elder, Ben Sandifer, Dave "King Kong" Kelly, Terry Taylor, Bob Raleigh and others kept a successful format going.

Responding to that demand, Barry Bullard began NightTracks, featuring smooth and mellow classic rock music and trivia from 8 until 10 every night.

This, combined with Barry's traditional approach of mixing classic rock trivia in his nightly show, gave WNEX a "shot in the arm" before the station finally decided to change.

In the mid-1980s, hampered by FM competition, a weak 1,000-watt daytime signal and an even weaker 250 watts at night, WNEX gave up on music and began broadcasting sports around the clock.

The morning drive program hosted by Burgamy and Richardson moved on July 12, to WGXA-TV with a simulcast on WMAC and the Telegraph's website, Macon.com.

In June, 2016, WNEX and two sister stations that had been owned by Register Communications were sold by a court-appointed receiver to Creek Media, LLC.

Effective February 4, 2022, Creek Media sold WUXL to Clifton Moor's B&GRS Enterprises, LLC at a purchase price of $50,000.