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WNRQ
WNRQ (105.9 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station in Nashville, heard in northern middle Tennessee and southern central Kentucky. It airs a classic rock format. It is owned by iHeartMedia, with studios in Nashville's Music Row district.
WNRQ is a Class C FM station. It has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts, the maximum for most FM stations. The transmitter site is on Johnson Chapel Hill Road West in Brentwood, Tennessee, a Nashville suburb. WNRQ broadcasts using HD Radio technology. Its HD2 digital subchannel carries the Black Information Network (BIN), an all news service directed at the African-American community. It feeds FM translator W248BQ at 97.5 MHz.
The station signed on the air in 1953. Its original call sign was WSOK-FM. The station was owned by Cal Young, who happened to own 1470 WSOK-AM, according to FCC records. Cal Young sold 1470 WSOK-AM to Robert Roundsaville in 1957 and became what is known today as WVOL. In that same year, Cal Young sold WSOK-FM (at that time the call sign was WHCY) to Great Southern Broadcasting Company, and the new call sign became WFMB. In 1964, WFMB was sold again to WLAC, Inc. WFMB switched to WLAC-FM, becoming the sister station to WLAC 1510 AM. WLAC-FM had an easy listening format, airing quarter-hour sweeps of mostly instrumental cover versions of popular adult music, along with Hollywood and Broadway show tunes.
In 1978, WLAC-FM switched to album oriented rock (AOR), as "Rock 106," WKQB.
On December 24, 1980, at 12 noon, the album oriented rock (AOR) format came to an end and a format change to "The Joy of Nashville," WJYN, the latter reflecting a former easy listening format. In spring 1983, the call sign was changed back to WLAC-FM and went to an Adult Contemporary Format.
In 1998, Dick Broadcasting, owner of WGFX, and SFX Broadcasting, the then-owner of WLAC-FM, agreed to trade the intellectual property of the stations. The trade, to have taken place February 2, 1998, would have moved WLAC-FM to 104.5 FM, and moved WGFX's classic rock format to 105.9 under SFX ownership. However, when the agreement fell apart, SFX decided to go ahead with launching a classic rock format anyway, and flipped WLAC-FM to WNRQ on January 30.
The current format features harder-edged classic rock. Most of the station's playlist first hit the Nashville-area airwaves on the now-country-formatted WKDF during the 1970s and 1980s, as well as WKQB, "Rock 106" (from 1978 to 1981).
It was also Nashville's station for the syndicated John Boy and Billy morning show, heard on numerous Southern stations with the same format as WNRQ. The station stopped airing John Boy and Billy in the spring of 2020. It later had a local wake-up program, "The Josh Innes Show". The show also aired on WEGR in Memphis and WLLZ in Detroit.
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WNRQ
WNRQ (105.9 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station in Nashville, heard in northern middle Tennessee and southern central Kentucky. It airs a classic rock format. It is owned by iHeartMedia, with studios in Nashville's Music Row district.
WNRQ is a Class C FM station. It has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 100,000 watts, the maximum for most FM stations. The transmitter site is on Johnson Chapel Hill Road West in Brentwood, Tennessee, a Nashville suburb. WNRQ broadcasts using HD Radio technology. Its HD2 digital subchannel carries the Black Information Network (BIN), an all news service directed at the African-American community. It feeds FM translator W248BQ at 97.5 MHz.
The station signed on the air in 1953. Its original call sign was WSOK-FM. The station was owned by Cal Young, who happened to own 1470 WSOK-AM, according to FCC records. Cal Young sold 1470 WSOK-AM to Robert Roundsaville in 1957 and became what is known today as WVOL. In that same year, Cal Young sold WSOK-FM (at that time the call sign was WHCY) to Great Southern Broadcasting Company, and the new call sign became WFMB. In 1964, WFMB was sold again to WLAC, Inc. WFMB switched to WLAC-FM, becoming the sister station to WLAC 1510 AM. WLAC-FM had an easy listening format, airing quarter-hour sweeps of mostly instrumental cover versions of popular adult music, along with Hollywood and Broadway show tunes.
In 1978, WLAC-FM switched to album oriented rock (AOR), as "Rock 106," WKQB.
On December 24, 1980, at 12 noon, the album oriented rock (AOR) format came to an end and a format change to "The Joy of Nashville," WJYN, the latter reflecting a former easy listening format. In spring 1983, the call sign was changed back to WLAC-FM and went to an Adult Contemporary Format.
In 1998, Dick Broadcasting, owner of WGFX, and SFX Broadcasting, the then-owner of WLAC-FM, agreed to trade the intellectual property of the stations. The trade, to have taken place February 2, 1998, would have moved WLAC-FM to 104.5 FM, and moved WGFX's classic rock format to 105.9 under SFX ownership. However, when the agreement fell apart, SFX decided to go ahead with launching a classic rock format anyway, and flipped WLAC-FM to WNRQ on January 30.
The current format features harder-edged classic rock. Most of the station's playlist first hit the Nashville-area airwaves on the now-country-formatted WKDF during the 1970s and 1980s, as well as WKQB, "Rock 106" (from 1978 to 1981).
It was also Nashville's station for the syndicated John Boy and Billy morning show, heard on numerous Southern stations with the same format as WNRQ. The station stopped airing John Boy and Billy in the spring of 2020. It later had a local wake-up program, "The Josh Innes Show". The show also aired on WEGR in Memphis and WLLZ in Detroit.