Technical Profile: WTIX-FM

FM Technical Profile: WTIX

Station Name:: TIX-FM
Frequency:: 94.3
Format:: Classic Hits
Transmitter Location:: [map] [street view] - Just off LA-23 north of Port Sulphur, about 35 miles south-southeast of New Orleans.
Power (ERP):: 100 kW
Antenna:: Directional
Antenna HAAT:: 981 feet
Other Information:: 60 dBu protected contour map, from the FCC.; :

PS-WTIX-FM NEW ORLEANS
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Text-WTIX
PTY-Undefined
PI-WTIX-FM; AUX: 21 kW @ 906 feet; 60 dBu protected contour map, from the FCC.
More Information:: [FCC]
[FCCdata]; [Radio-Locator]; [Wikipedia]

[Facebook]
[Facebook] Group page dedicated to the old AM 690 WTIX.

[Audio] A quick sample of two of WTIX's jingles, as aired at around 4 am, received from Baldwin County, Alabama in 2015. (34 sec., 934 KB, MP3 format.)
[Audio] A one-hour aircheck (music removed) featuring morning host Michael, traffic, weather, news, local and national commercials and jingles. (16'30", 19.1 MB, M4A format.)
[Image] Image of the RDS decoded on an Insignia HD portable from Baldwin County, Alabama, showing the PI (call sign) and Radio Text fields.
[Image] Image of the RDS decoded on a Radio Shack DX-398 portable from Baldwin County, Alabama, showing the PS (station name) field.
Owner:: Fleur de Lis Broadcasting, Inc.
History:: See Wikipedia for the station's history.

The station went off the air in August 2021 due to damage from Hurricane Ida. The station reported that their tower's top section and antenna were damaged beyond repair. They returned to the air at some point later with 1 kW from a shared antenna site with WRNO-FM and WWL-FM. That facility was granted via a Special Temporary Authority and operated at least until the summer of 2023.

In late June 2023 the station filed to update their facility with a slightly different directional antenna. The top section of the tower will be replaced when the new antenna is installed, and the station should return to 100 kW at that time.