KXXR

93X (KXXR 93.7 FM) is a hard rock radio station broadcasting to the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. It is owned by KQRS (in turn owned by Disney), who also owns Drive 105. Broadcasts on this frequency date back to the 1960s, when WAYL was operating with a "beautiful music" format. By the early 1990s, it was a hard rock station with the call sign KRXX (and known as 93X), but was purchased by KQRS around 1994.

At that point, the station became known as the alternative/progressive rock station The Edge and used KEGE for the call letters. Following the Telecommunications Act of 1996 that relaxed ownership restrictions, KQRS/Disney purchased "Rev 105" in March 1997 and began broadcasting hard rock on that station. Later that year, the two stations did a format swap of sorts, and 93.7 returned to being known as 93X. The former Rev 105 eventually became today's Drive 105.

When 93.7 FM first signed on as The Edge, they played R.E.M.'s "It's the End of the World As We Know It" all day long. A station-sponsored concert now known as the 93XFest (originally EdgeFest) began around that time, and has taken place annually in Somerset, Wisconsin since the early 1990s.

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• 93X