WNSR

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WNSR
Broadcast area Nashville, Tennessee
Frequency 560 kHz
BrandingWNSR SportsRadio
Programming
Format Sports radio
Affiliations CBS Sports Radio
Ownership
OwnerSouthern Wabash Communications of Middle Tennessee, Inc.
WPDQ
History
First air date
1981;43 years ago (1981)
Former call signs
  • WTBN (1981–1985)
  • WWCR (1985–1987)
  • WYOR (1987–1998)
Call sign meaning
"Nashville's Sports Radio"
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID 41062
Class D
Power
  • 4,500 watts (day)
  • 75 watts (night)
Transmitter coordinates
Translator(s)
  • 95.9 W240CA (Brentwood)
  • 107.9 W300DO (Smyrna)
Repeater(s) 103.9  WRFM (Drakesboro, Kentucky)
Links
Public license information
Webcast Listen Live
Website wnsr.com

WNSR (560 AM) is a Nashville-area Class D radio station. WNSR's majority owner is Randolph Victor Bell, and the station's general manager is former WSM personality Ted Johnson.

Contents

History

The station converted to its current format in 1996, with the call letters WYOR, when all-sports programming began its meteoric rise in the North American radio market, particularly on AM stations. WNSR is currently affiliated with CBS Sports Radio. Many of the top names in Nashville sports have worked at WNSR. Greg Pogue, who is a veteran sports writer, sports editor, and television host, hosted Nashville's longest running morning sports show with David Coleman. Pogue worked with the Nashville Banner and was later sports editor at the Daily News Journal . Pogue took over the morning drive slot after Patrick McMurtry left to take a television news anchor position in Charleston, West Virginia. Darren McFarland, a radio veteran in Nashville, hosted a show during two different stints at the station. Brad Hopkins, a former Tennessee Titan, hosted two different shows, the latter as a co-host alongside McFarland. Bill King, a national sports talk show host and recruiting expert, hosted a show with Joe Biddle, a sports writer with the former Nashville Banner and later The Tennessean . Gregory Ruff, a veteran broadcaster in Nashville, worked in various roles with the station hosting a show and later being the fill-in for many of the shows. Jonathan Shaffer has also worked at the station. Chip Ramsey was one of the early broadcasters who did a show. Don West hosted an afternoon radio show that featured various other co-hosts including David Boclair, Eric Yutzy, Steve Wrigley, and Paul Kuharsky. (West was also a popular shopping channel show host and later announcer for TNA Wrestling). Long-time Nashville sports broadcasting figure George Plaster joined the station's staff in September 2019, leaving in 2022.

Former logo WNSR-FM Logo.PNG
Former logo

Listening area

WNSR is licensed to the Nashville suburb of Brentwood, Tennessee, in adjoining Williamson County. Its 4,500-watt daytime signal is transmitted from a four-tower antenna in eastern Williamson County in a north-northeast/south-southeast directional pattern; this is due in part to the 5,000-watt daytime signal of a much older Class B 560 kHz station, WHBQ, just under 200 airline miles away in Memphis. As a result, WNSR's signal can be heard clearly from as far away as Southwestern Indiana, South Central Kentucky and North Alabama between sunrise and sunset. At night, when WHBQ has a 1,000-watt signal, WNSR broadcasts at a nighttime power (75 watts) from a nondirectional, one-tower antenna just southeast of downtown Nashville.

However, the listening area has been effectively enlarged by the purchase of WRFM (formerly WNTC and WPDQ), a Class A FM station licensed to Drakesboro, Kentucky, considerably north of the traditional Nashville market area, which now simulcasts WNSR programming, putting it into the Clarksville/Hopkinsville market area.

In addition, the station also signed on over translator station W240CA (95.9 FM), which serves the Nashville/Davidson County area and the Williamson County area, including the Brentwood, Franklin, and some parts of Spring Hill, Tennessee areas.

Programming

WNSR currently is in affiliation with CBS Sports Radio. The station was previously affiliated with Yahoo! Sports Radio (formerly Sporting News Radio, and Sports Fan Radio Network prior to that) and NBC Sports Radio. The station also broadcasts local sports, both talk shows and play-by-play as well.

See also

  1. "Facility Technical Data for WNSR". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.

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