The South Sound said goodbye to Mixx96 FM, Sunday night (October 26, 2025 – 11:00p.m.). The crew includes:
Ty Flint – Mornings / News Director
Lorri Tracy – Mornings
Ruby Brown – Afternoon and weekend announcer
Michael Stein – Afternoon and weekend announcer
Jennifer Mathis – Weekends
Dick Pust – Public Affairs
Jeff Hirschberg – Evenings / Billing-Traffic / Web-Tech Wizard
Seth Triberry – Weekend Announcer
Steve Leonard – Substitute Announcer
Wayne Carlson – Substitute Announcer
Marketing
Brian Butler – Sales Manager
Kelly Malloy – Business Development
Support Team
Toni Holm and David Rauh – Station Owners
Dave Cowan – Program Director & Afternoon Announcer
John Foster – Associate Program Director
Tim Vik – Engineer
Final moments included many goodbyes, technical errors, dead air and dedications. Sunday, 11p.m., October 26, 2025. (1:00:45)
X96
October 27, 2025 at QZVX
kento says:
KXXO became X96 at 3:40 pm, a latin pop format from different latin cultures and some English songs thrown in the mix
Mixx Español
October 27, 2025 at QZVX
Jason Remington says:
The new X96 doesn’t sound half bad. I can’t say that it would be a pre-set on my car radio, but kudos to Bustos Media for providing yet another Spanish-language format to serve that 13.1 % of the PNW.
Clever
October 27, 2025 at QZVX
Jason Remington says:
The NBC chimes before the time check. I dig it.
Dead Air
October 27, 2025 at QZVX
Dave says:
The dead air you refer to was courtesy of StarTouch.
KXXO
October 27, 2025 at QZVX
Kento says:
Is this Dave Cowan, PD of KXXO?
Hi-Tech
October 27, 2025 at QZVX
Jason Remington says:
Not familiar with StarTouch but dead air can be expected if techs are doing work in preparation of a shutdown or change-over. It is a shame that a local buyer couldn’t grab Mixx and keep the local Oly connection.
October 27, 2025 at QZVX
Kento says:
I noticed they are still doing nature sounds still and I also taped the last hour also. They went full circle signing off the same song and going to nature sounds after they signed off like they did before they launched Mixx 96 in 1990.But I don’t understand why Bustos hasn’t launched X96 yet. You can hear the new station online. It launched either Thursday or Friday. The PD said probably this afternoon or tomorrow
For the birds
October 27, 2025 at QZVX
Jason Remington says:
As of 9:35 a.m. 10/27/25, 96.1 KXXO continues to broadcast nature sounds, birds and some ocean surf. Bustos Media has yet to begin broadcasting their Spanish language programming.
Final day of KXXO included ads from competing stations, KGY/Oldies and KWRM/AC, enticing KXXO listeners to move over to their station. Typical of such shutdowns/format changes.