Although Rhode Island College has a Mass Media Communications program, WXIN is not associated with or funded by the Communications Department, and no classes are offered in conjunction with the station. Many communications students, however, are members of the organization, and a faculty member from the department, Philip Palombo, serves as professional adviser to the station. In early 2008, WXIN launched NIXM, an Internet-only radio station, to take the place of WELH. For more than a decade, veteran WXIN DJs were permitted to utilize WELH on weekends through an agreement with the Wheeler School, however Brown University bought out the agreement and took over the weekend hosting duties of WELH in 2006. On May 6, 2011, WXIN brought T-Pain to the campus. The student-run organization was also named "Organization of the Year" at RIC for an unprecedented third time and received the honor again for a fourth time in 2013. In October 2015, WXIN was awarded as the "Biggest Champion of the Local Scene" at the College Radio Awards hosted by the College Music Journal . WXIN is located in the Ducey Student Media Center in the Student Union Plaza along with The Anchor, Rhode Island College's weekly newspaper, and Anchor TV, Rhode Island College's on-campus television station. The station currently uses the tagline "Your Station, Your Music." Veteran DJs and popular shows are often simulcast on Anchor TV Channel 3 on campus and the television station's uStream. Due to a broadcast range limited to the Rhode Island College campus and parts of Providence, North Providence, Johnston, Smithfield, and Cranston, many of WXIN's listeners tune in via the station's Web site, . WXIN was the first college radio station in Rhode Island, and among the first radio stations in New England, to offer free, 24/7 Web casting online, beginning as early as 1998. WXIN was also the first in the Rhode Island region to provide live, streaming video of its studios. The station simulcasts its broadcast signal online via Live 365, Ustream, and via other programs. The webcast is also picked up and played over speakers at various locations throughout the campus. WXIN's second station, the Internet-only NIXM, is currently broadcasting via the station's Studio 2 on Ustream. Rhode Island College Radio's website has won numerous awards since its inception in 1997. Since the mid-1980s, WXIN has featured a Rock Hunt battle of the bands competition during March and April to determine the best local acts.