Best Tenn. stations of all time

[Meepster]

Firepoint make Meep laugh. Meep LIKE Firepoint.

[NotSoClearChannel]

Firepoint make Meep laugh. Meep LIKE Firepoint.

Ha!

NSCC

[dlf]

It didn't last long, but WKQB (Rock 106) in Nashville was a well run station for the 2 plus years it was on in Nashville. It had excellent air talent and had a true AOR sound. KDF during much of their rock tenure, ventured way too far into Top 40. Someone told me Rock 106 was ahead of KDF in the ratings when the station was sold, but the new owners changed the format regardless.

Best of all time (possibly in the AOR format), but I would agree with Watt that WSM (AM) and WLAC (AM) are probably more associated with Tennessee than any others and their legacies have earned them that title.

dlf

[firepoint525]

Interesting side note about WCMT.  Paul billed them as "Tennessee's favorite" back in the early '90s, but they could only be heard in, at most, two or three counties in Tennessee, while at the same time they could be heard in a couple of counties in Kentucky.  How can you be "Tennessee's favorite" when most of the state can't hear you?  And what about those in neighboring states who can hear you?  I'm not sure how Paul ever explained that one away, or if he was ever even able to do so.

[jharmon]

My vote is WMAK with Scott Shannon as PD, John Young, Dick Kent, Dick Downes, & Coyote McCloud, plus Russ Spooner in AM drive back in the 70's. and WKDF-FM with Ron Huntsman.  Great sounding radio stations...when it meant something.

[chrisalcorn]

WUBT 101.1 Russelville, Nashville.

[TennStud]

Hands Down..The greatest amalgamation of taleny in one single solitary frequency was 15Q,Knoxville!!!!

[trapper12]

WOKI in Knoxville in the early 80's.

[secondchoice]

I think the “Best” depends on your age when you heard it. I liked WKGN when in Knoxville, WMAK and WKDA (rock and roll version they didn’t do Country as well WENO) in high school.  Just for “grinding it out” award: WAMB has been playing big band in Nashville since the 1970’s before you could Satellite that stuff.    But my Favorite much underrated station was 1960’s News and Blues WLAC.   There are still folks who remember John R!

[olebud]

Naturally, I'm going to mention the Nashville stations because I grew up here.  In recent reading about radio history in Nashville, a WSM engineer who worked there I believe part time while going to vanderbilt, invented the first fm radio. Watt can expand on it, but as far as impact, WSM had a regular network show on NBC, sent reporters to cover WW II, and with it signal, loaned the staion to Louisville once when they flooded.  From my memories of WLAC (and that was my first job) most of the history of WLAC is based on the evening/overnight programming of
R and B.  Watt again is much better versed than I on both these stations.
But I can recall my parents listening to Hank Williams, Sr. on WKDA and I don't have a clue what stations I listened to at night before T-V to hear  Roy, Gene, The Straight Arrow, Fibber McGee and Molly and all those great old radio shows you can buy now at Cracker Barrel.
I can hear some of you now.....how old is he anyway?  I was alive when Pearl Harbor was bombed, just a few months, but alive anyway.  Now for some of you youngsters...go look up Pearl Harbor on line