terrain, while also dropping to 20,000 watts from its previous 120,000 watts. WRXL would still have a larger coverage area than conventional Class B FM stations, but with lower power due to the increased antenna height. On October 1, 2012, WRXL rebranded from "102-1 The X" back to "XL 102", WRXL's branding from 1976 to 2002. On November 1, 2017, iHeartMedia announced that WRXL, along with all of its co-owned stations in Richmond and Chattanooga, would be swapped to Entercom, coupled with that company's merger with CBS Radio. The sale was completed on December 19, 2017. The deal had iHeartMedia taking over several former CBS and Entercom stations in Boston and Seattle in exchange for the Richmond and Chattanooga stations. On September 13, 2020, WRXL quietly re-branded as "Alt 102-1" as part of a systemic "revamping" of Entercom's alternative rock stations. At this time, most of the local DJs and programming staff were laid off and replaced with out-of-market hosts. HD Radio WRXL also broadcasts an HD subchannel: WRXL-HD2 carries a country music format branded as "Big 98.5," which feeds the co-owned translator station W253BI at 98.5 FM. The station premiered July 27, 2015. References External links RXL Modern rock radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 1949 1949 establishments in Virginia Audacy, Inc. radio stations