 WXXI dates its origins to July 2, 1984, when it signed on with its current mix of NPR news programming, local news and talk, and public affairs programming geared to serve adult listeners in the six-county Rochester metropolitan area which its signal covers.The station is the successor to WSAY, a facility founded and built by the late Gordon P. Brown in 1936 as a small local area station with a 250 watt signal on 1210 kHz.As a result of the NARBA agreement it moved to 1240 kHz in 1941.