WKDF

WKDF

City	Nashville, Tennessee
Broadcast area	Nashville, Tennessee
Branding	103.3 Nash FM
Slogan	"Today's Country" "Nashville's Home for 103-minute Music Marathons"
Frequency	103.3 MHz (also on HD Radio)
First air date	April 18, 1962 (as WNFO-FM); January 1, 1967 (as WKDA-FM/WKDF)
Format	Country
ERP	100,000 watts
HAAT	376 meters
Class	C0
Facility ID	16896
Former callsigns	WNFO-FM (1962-1965) WKDA-FM (1967-1976)
Owner	Cumulus Media (Radio License Holding CBC, LLC)
Sister stations	WGFX, WQQK, WSM-FM, WWTN
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	103wkdf.com

WKDF (103.3 FM, "103.3 Nash FM") is a Country music radio station broadcasting on a frequency of 103.3 MHz from Nashville, Tennessee. WKDF is owned by Cumulus Media. A transmitter site is in Brentwood, Tennessee, and its studios are located in Nashville's Music Row district.

WKDF broadcasts one channel, HD 1, in the HD format, which is a simulcast of the analog (traditional) signal.^[1]

History

The first commercial (as opposed to experimental) station to occupy the 103.3 FM frequency in the Nashville market was WNFO-FM, founded in 1962 and operated by Hickory Broadcasting Corporation.^[2] Despite several FM stations already operating in Nashville at the time, receivers were not yet in widespread use, and the relatively few listeners were not enough to attract advertisers. It left the air sometime around 1965, with WKDA-AM, then one of the two Top 40-formatted stations in the market, taking over and restarting it on January 1, 1967 as WKDA-FM.^[3] WKDA-FM/WKDF was located for many years with its sister station in the downtown Stahlman Building, where its large neon sign remains mounted. The station was later moved to Rutledge Hill on Second Avenue South on or around 1978, to a property once occupied by the home of Captain Thomas G. Ryman (of Ryman Auditorium fame). The Transmitter site was moved from Rutledge Hill to a Brentwood, TN tower in 1982 while the studios remained on site. In 2012, the station was moved to 10 Music Circle East near Nashville's Music Row after the merger of Citadel and Cumulus Broadcasting.

In January 1970, WKDA-FM began playing album-oriented rock, aimed especially at Nashville's large college student population, first at night only, and, then, beginning in March concurrent with a format change of the AM to country, full-time, for about a year and a half. Afterward, in the daytime, the station employed a mix of rock and Top 40 music, while switching to hard and progressive rock at night, during most of the 1970s and early 1980s. As the FM format grew, it soon became the dominant station of the two, which eventually separated. For some years in the late 1970s and early 1980s, "KDF" (as it was popularly known after its callsign officially changed to WKDF in 1976) was the dominant station as determined by the number of listeners reported by Arbitron, in the Nashville market, due, again, to its vast popularity among younger listeners. The only true competition the station had in the rock market was the Vanderbilt University student station, WRVU, which played alternative and college forms of rock not considered commercially acceptable in that day and time (WRVU has since discontinued broadcasting on an analog radio signal, but is available over the Internet and on HD Radio).

Although the station, like most 1970s-era album rock outlets, underwent some ratings decline during the early 1980s due to changing tastes among its adolescent listeners (e.g., "new wave", techno pop), WKDF proved resilient to the point of being able to capitalize on the backlash against MTV-influenced artists later in the decade. By the early 1990s, the station shifted its playlist somewhat to reflect the then-rising grunge and alternative rock scenes, leaving other FMs in the area to pick up the oldies from its early days; in recent times, WNRQ-FM has served as Nashville's "classic" (oldies) rock outlet.

WKDF logo, 2001-2012

After nearly 30 years of programming rock, however, WKDF reformatted to country music on April 1, 1999, after continued ratings losses to competitor FM outlets. Originally going by the moniker "Music City 103.3", it reverted to using its call letters in branding beginning in 2001. In recent years, the playlist has featured a mixture of contemporary and classic country.

WKDF logo, 2012-2014, before switching to Nash FM

In September 2011, WKDF came under Cumulus ownership (as a result of the Cumulus acquisition of Citadel), and thus, is now a sister station to fellow Nashville country outlet WSM-FM.

On February 3, 2014 WKDF, along with nine other Cumulus-owned country music stations, made the switch to the "Nash FM" branding that had been employed previously only by New York City outlet WNSH.^[4] Later that year, WSM-FM adopted a similar brand, Nash Icon. WKDF (as Nash FM) is positioned as a personality-based station that focuses on contemporary country, while WSM-FM (as Nash Icon) is more music-based and focuses on established country hits dating back to the 1980s.

WKDF's morning and evening programs, "America's Morning Show" and "Nash Nights Live" respectively, are distributed nationally and originate from Cumulus' Nash Campus at WKDF's former studio on Rutledge Hill. WKDF itself broadcasts alongside the remainder of Cumulus Nashville's local cluster of stations on Music Circle East.

Former on-air staff

Notable former disc jockeys from the station include:

Steve Dickert: 1972–2005 – disc jockey, later general manager. Briefly joined Cumulus Nashville (WWTN, WSM-FM, WRQQ, WNFN, WQQK) as market manager in 2006.
Kidd Redd: 1984–1999 – disc jockey and host of The Nashville Tapes; later program director.
Carl P. Mayfield: 1980s / 1999–early 2000s – mornings during 1980s; later returned to mornings during the early period of the country format; also at WSIX, Sirius, and WKDF's sister station WGFX.
Mike Donegan (The Duke / The Dook): 1989–2003 – mornings; later at Sirius and stadium announcer for the Tennessee Titans.
Joe Elvis: late 1980s–1998 - Afternoons, host of The Nashville Tapes; later at WNRQ, Nashville. Drummer for area rock band Government Cheese.
Tommy Womack: early 1990s – host of The Nashville Tapes; often contributed to Joe Elvis' program. Also a member of Government Cheese.
Ian Case (Ian Punnett): Early 1990s / 1998–1999 – mornings.
Sheri Sexton: 1990s – nights, middays; also music director.
B. Derek (Buddy Scott): 1987–1997 – overnights. Now a local chiropractor.
Jimmy the K: 1990s – weekends; later at WNRQ Nashville.
Jason Joseph: 1990s – later at WBUZ Nashville (as Biscuithead), and program director at WLRS Louisville, Ky.
Aljon Go: 1990s – overnights, weekends, host of The Nashville Tapes; later at "102.9 The Buzz" WBUZ Nashville.
Brent Fox: 1990s – weekends, host/producer of The Nashville Tapes; later at "102.9 The Buzz" WBUZ and "Rooster 106" WNPL, both Nashville.
Fiona: 1998–1999 – Mornings co-producer and co-host. Later at WGFX and WQQK, both Nashville.
Pauly: mid-1990s – nights; later with WZZP & WEGI Clarksville, Tennessee, WRQQ Nashville, WNFZ Knoxville, Operations Manager/Program Director at JWC Broadcasting WBXE & WKXD Cookeville, Tennessee, and Program Director at WHFX Brunswick, Georgia.
Shannon McCombs: 1985–1994 / 1999 – Overnights, mid-days, afternoons; Host of Breakfast with the Beatles, and The Nashville Tapes. Returned for short time when the format flipped to country.
Stevie Stevens (Lisa Walker): late 1980s–early 1990s – evenings, also assistant program director.
Chris Barrington: 1993–1995 – weekend overnights.
Patty Murray: mid–1980s (Deceased)
Dave Walton (Toon): 1980s
David Hall: 1980s –later at WRLT Nashville (Deceased)
Steve Henderson: late 1970s – afternoon drive (Died in 1983).
Jack Shell: 2008–2011 – afternoons; later at WYCD Detroit.
Jack Sass: 1997–1999 – later program director at WBOP Harrisonburg, Virginia. Also co-hosted show with Pauly (see above) on Vanderbilt University's WRVU.
Big Dave: 1990s – morning co-host (with Mike "The Dook" Donegan); later at B105 (WUBE) Cincinnati, Ohio.
Beth Donahue: mid-1990s – morning co-host with Big Dave and the Duke; later at WBUZ Nashville.
Charley: early 1980s – evenings; now a high-technology social researcher in San Francisco.
Traffic Squeegie: 1990s – traffic; also on sister station WGFX (as Sid). Later at WNRQ and WBUZ, both Nashville.
John Nagara: mid-1980s–early 1990s – Assistant program director/music director.
Slats: late 1980s – later at WMMS Cleveland, Ohio. Management suspended him at least once for on-air pranks.
John Haggard: early 1970s.
Jay Franklin: early 1970s.
John McCall: mid-1970s – overnights and weekends.
Dick Mason: mid-1970s.
Jim Battan (Coyote J): 1970's – later at WERC Birmingham, Q-93 New Orleans, KPRI San Diego, The X Birmingham, WZRR Birmingham, and online radio station The Edge 247.
Wylie Rose: 2008-2011 – Mornings
Eddie Foxx: 2000-2007 – afternoons/mornings; also music director. Later at WKSF Asheville
Justin Cole (Stuntboy): 2002–2007 – mornings/afternoons; later at WPOC Baltimore
Lisa Manning: 2002–2008 – Morning news; later at WSM-FM Nashville
Tom Bootle: 1970s-80s – Mornings (Carl P. and the P. Team, Mike Donegan "The Dook" Show)
Doug Bolin (Doug Baugh): 1985–1993 – weekends.

The Nashville Tapes aired on KDF Sunday nights, featuring rock music from Nashville and the surrounding area. Hosts included (but were not limited to): Kidd Redd, Joe Elvis, Tommy Womack, Shannon, Morgan, Leslie Hermsdorfer, Brent Fox, and Aljon Go. Go later founded the directly-inspired Local Buzz program on WBUZ, Nashville.

Current on-air staff

Morning Show (5:00 a.m – 10 a.m): America's Morning Show with Blair Garner
Mid-days (10 a.m – 3 p.m): Becca
Afternoon Drive (3 p.m – 7 p.m): Randy Hill
Evenings (7 p.m – 12 a.m): Nash Nights Live with Shawn Parr
Late Nights (12 a.m – 5:00 a.m): Kix Brooks

In popular culture

On The Dick Van Dyke Show episode titled "Ray Murdock's X-Ray," which originally aired on January 23, 1963, the call letters of the television station broadcasting the fictitious Ray Murdock X-Ray Show are WKDF.

The iconic black and yellow KDF bumper sticker appears in the Howard Stern film Private Parts. It appears on the wall behind Stern in the scene where he is hired as Program Director of WRNW.

In a mid-1990s episode of COPS on the Fox television network, Metro Nashville police answer a domestic disturbance call. Upon arriving at the residence, they are directed down a hallway to the locked door of a male teen who had allegedly been 'huffing' spray paint or glue and who had now barricaded himself in his room. When the police officers get to the teen's door, the viewer can clearly see a black and yellow KDF 'bullet' sticker affixed to the door at eye level.

Nashville-based country music songwriter/singer Phil Vassar released his debut album in 2000 with an up-tempo song that broke into the Top 5 on the Billboard country singles chart called "Carlene" In the video, the iconic WKDF neon sign and Nashville skyline is seen in the first 10 seconds.

References

↑ http://www.hdradio.com/station_guides/widget.php?id=33 HD Radio Guide for Nashville
↑ Broadcasting Yearbook 1964
↑ Broadcasting Yearbook 1968
↑ cumulus-adds-11-more-nashfms

External links

WKDF official website

Query the FCC's FM station database for WKDF

Radio-Locator information on WKDF

Nashville, Tennessee radio stations

By AM frequency	560 650 760 790 830 880 900 980 1160 1200 1300 1360 1380 1430 1450 1470 1490 1510

By SW frequency	3.195/3.215/6.875/15.825 4.84/13.845 5.07/5.935/7.49/9.35/12.16 5.89/9.98

By FM frequency	88.1 88.3 88.5 88.7/94.5/99.3 89.1 89.5 89.9 90.3 90.7 91.1 91.7 92.1 92.5 92.9 93.7 94.1 94.5 94.9 95.5 95.9 96.3 97.1 97.9 98.3 98.7 98.9 99.7 100.1 100.5 101.1 101.5 101.9 102.1 102.5 102.9 103.3 104.5 104.9 105.1 105.9 106.7 107.1 107.5 107.9

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.475 162.525 162.55

By callsign	KIG79 W214BQ W235BW W240CA W252CM W263AI W270AF WAMB WANT WAYM/W233AF/W257AR WAYW WBOZ WBUZ WCJK WCOR WCRT/WCRT-FM1 WCVQ WECV WENO WFCL WFCM-FM WFFH WFFI WFSK-FM WGFX WGNS WHEW WHPY-FM WJNA WJXA WKDA WKDF WLAC WLVU WMDB WMOT WMTS-FM WNAH WNFN WNG631 WNQM WNRQ WNSR WPLN WPLN-FM WPRT-FM/W271AB WQQK WQZQ WRFN-LP WRLT WRVW WSIX-FM WSM WSM-FM WUBT WVCP WVOL WVRY WWCR WWTN WXK63 WXNA-LP WYFN

Defunct	WRVU WSM-FM (1941–1951)

Nearby radio markets Bowling Green Chattanooga Clarksville-Hopkinsville Cookeville Florence-Muscle Shoals Huntsville Jackson See also List of radio stations in Tennessee

Country radio stations in the state of Tennessee

Stations	KYTN – Union City WAKM – Franklin WANT – Lebanon WAXO – Lewisburg WBEJ – Elizabethton WBRY – Woodbury WCOR – Lebanon WCYQ – Oak Ridge WDEB-FM – Jamestown WDEF - Chattanooga WDKN – Dickson WDKW – Maryville WDXE – Lawrenceburg WDYE - Dyer WECO-FM – Wartburg WEIO – Huntingdon WEKR – Fayetteville WEMB – Erwin WEPG – South Pittsburg WEYE – Surgoinsville WFWL – Camden WGAP – Maryville WGKX – Memphis WGOC – Kingsport WGSQ – Cookeville WHIN – Gallatin WIKQ – Tusculum WIVK-FM – Knoxville WJDT – Rogersville WJJM-FM – Lewisburg WJLE – Smithville WJLE-FM – Smithville WJSQ – Athens WKBQ – Covington WKDF – Nashville WKJQ-FM – Parsons WKOS – Kingsport WKSR – Pulaski WKVL - Knoxville WKWX – Savannah WKXD-FM – Monterey WLAR – Athens WLCT – Lafayette WLFP – Germantown/Memphis WLIL – Lenoir City WLIV – Livingston WLIV-FM – Monterey WLLX – Lawrenceburg WLNQ – White Pine WLNT-LP – Loudon WLOD – Loudon WLVS-FM – Clifton WLXA - Loretto WMCP – Columbia WMCT – Mountain City WMOD – Bolivar WMTN – Morristown WMUF – Henry WMYL – Halls Crossroads WNCK - Cookeville WNKX-FM – Centerville WNOX – Karns WNPC – Newport WOGT – East Ridge WOGY – Jackson WOOP-LP – Cleveland WORM-FM – Savannah WOWF – Crossville WPFT – Pigeon Forge WRGS – Rogersville WSBI – Static WSDQ – Dunlap WSIX-FM – Nashville WSM – Nashville WSM-FM – Nashville WTNK – Hartsville WTNV – Tiptonville WTNX – Lawrenceburg WTRB – Ripley WUCZ – Carthage WUSY – Cleveland WVFB – Celina WWLX – Lawrenceburg WWYN – Mckenzie WXOQ – Selmer WYSH – Clinton WYTM-FM – Fayetteville WZLT – Lexington

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Tennessee

Cumulus Media

AM radio stations	KAAY KABC KAOK KARN KBED KBGG KBOI KCMO KCSF KCUB KESP KFAY KFNZ KFRU KGO KIKR KKAT KKOB KKOH KLIF KLIK KMAJ KMJ KNBR KNEK KNML KNSH KPUR KPZK KRMD KRUZ KSCR KSFO KTBL KTCK KTCT KTIK KTOP KTUC KUGN KVEN KVOR KWPN KXZZ KYNG WAAV WABC WALG WAPI WARM WAYS WBAP WBBF WBBW WBMQ WCOA WDDO WDUZ¹ WFAS WFNC WFNR WFTW WGLD WGOC WGOK WGOW WGPC WHBT WHGB WHLD WHLL WHSC WIBR WICC WIOV WISW WJBC WJCW WJLG WJOX WJR WJRW WJWF WKLQ WKY WLBY WLQR WLS WLTI WLWI WLZR WMAC WMAL WMSP WNAM WNML WOSH WPIC WPRO WPRV WRAD WRIE WSBA WSKO WSOM WSSO WTKA WTMA WTOD WTRX WUMP WVEL WVLK WVNN WWCK WXLM WXOK WXQW WXSM WYMB WYNN

FM radio stations	K279BI KAMO-FM KARN-FM KARX KATC-FM KATM KATT-FM KAYD-FM KBBM KBBQ-FM KBBY-FM KBCY KBEE KBER KBIU KBUL-FM KBXR KBZU KCDD KCFX KCHZ KCJK KCMO-FM KDJK KDRF KDVB KDVV KEHK KESN KENZ KFFG KFOG KGGO KHAY KHKI KHKK KHOP KHTB KHXS KHYT KIIM-FM KIPR KIZN KJJY KJMO KJOY KKEG KKFM KKGB KKGL KKMG KKND KKOB-FM KKPK KKWD KLAL KLIF-FM KLOS KLSZ-FM KLUR KMAJ-FM KMCK-FM KMEZ KMGA KMGV KMJ-FM KMJJ-FM KMJK KNEK-FM KNEV KNRQ KOLI KOMS KOQL KPLA KPLX KPUR-FM KQFC KQHN KQIZ-FM KQLK KQOB² KQRS-FM KQSM-FM KQXC-FM KQXL-FM KQXY-FM KRBE KRMD-FM KRMW KRRF KRRQ KRST KRWP KSAN KSCS KSKS KSMB KSZR KTCK-FM KTCX KTIK-FM KTLT KTOP-FM KUBL-FM KUJZ KURB KVMA-FM KVYB KWIC KWIN KWNN KWQW KWYE KWYL KXKC KXXR KYIS KYKZ KYYI KZEL-FM KZJF KZRK-FM W264AK WABD WAOA-FM WAQX-FM WARM-FM WBBL-FM WBHD WBHT WBLX-FM WBNQ WBRW WBSX WBWN WBZE WBZF WCMG WCTO WCYN-FM WDAI WDEN-FM WDLT-FM WDRQ WDUZ-FM¹ WDVD WDZZ-FM WEAN-FM WEAS-FM WEBE WEDG WEGC WEMX WFBE WFMS WFTK WFYR WGFX WGKX WGLF WGLO WGNI WGOW-FM WGRF WGRR WGVX WGVZ WHBX WHHY-FM WHKR WHLZ WHNN WHOT-FM WHRP WHTS WHTT-FM WILZ WIOG WIOV-FM WIVK-FM WIWF WIXO WIXV WJAD WJBC-FM WJCL-FM WJEZ WJJK WJOX-FM WJQX WJTQ WKAK WKDF WKHX-FM WKIM WKKO WKOR-FM WKOS WKQZ WKRU WKSM WKXS-FM WLAV-FM WLAW WLCS WLEV WLFF WLLF WLQR-FM WLS-FM WLTO WLWI-FM WLXC WLXX WLZN WMAL-FM WMAS-FM WMDH-FM WMEZ WMGB WMGL WMGS WMGU WMIM WMNX WMOS³ WMXS WMXT WMXU WNBM WNCV WNKT WNML-FM WNMQ WNMX WNNF WNNK-FM WNNX WNSH WNTQ WNUQ WOFX-FM WOGB¹ WOGT WOKI WOMG WORC-FM WPCK¹ WPEZ WPKR WPLJ WPRO-FM WPSK-FM WQGN-FM WQHZ WQKL WQLH¹ WQQK WQSM WQUT WQVE WQXA-FM WQXK WRBO WRCQ WRKN WRQN WRQQ WRQX WRRM WRRX WRWM WRXP WSEA WSJR WSJZ-FM WSKZ WSM-FM WSMS WSOX WSSX-FM WSYN WTCB WTNR WUHT WVBO WVIB WVLK-FM WVNN-FM WWBU WWCK-FM WWFF-FM WWFN-FM WWFX WWIZ WWKI WWKL WWKX WWLD WWLI WWLS-FM WWQQ-FM WWSN WWTN WWWM-FM WWWQ W255CJ/WWWQ-HD2 WWWW-FM WWWZ WXBM-FM WXFX WXKC WXKR WXKR-HD2/W265CB WXLO WXMX WXTA WXTL WXZZ WYAY WYFM WYNN-FM WYZB WZAT WZCY-FM WZNS WZPW WZRH WZRR WZYP

Radio networks	Arkansas Radio Network CBS Sports Radio* Titans Radio Network Westwood One (see navpage)

Online assets	iHeartRadio¹

Television-related assets	Nash TV

Other assets	Broadcast Software International CumulusJobs.com San Francisco Giants (minority interest in LP)

See also	Citadel Broadcasting Cumulus Media Networks Susquehanna Radio Corporation

¹ = Owned by iHeartMedia; operated by Cumulus under an LMA. ² = Co-owned with Champlin Broadcasting under an LMA. ³ = Operated by the Mohegan Sun under an LMA. AaBbCc = Owned by The Walt Disney Company; operated by Cumulus under an LMA. * = Owned by CBS Radio, operated by Cumulus.

Coordinates: 36°02′10″N 86°50′56″W / 36.036°N 86.849°W / 36.036; -86.849

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