WKOS

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WKOS
City	Kingsport, Tennessee
Broadcast area	Tri-Cities, Tennessee
Branding	104.9 Nash Icon
Slogan	Country For Life
Frequency	104.9 MHz
First air date	1979 (as WGAT-FM)
Format	Country
ERP	2,750 watts
HAAT	150 meters
Class	A
Facility ID	67674
Former callsigns	WGAT-FM (1979-1981) WZXY (1981-1991)^[1]
Owner	Cumulus Media (Radio License Holding CBC, LLC)
Sister stations	WGOC, WJCW, WQUT, WXSM
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	1049nashicon.com

WKOS (104.9 FM), branded as "104.9 Nash Icon", is a radio station serving the Tri-Cities, Tennessee, area with country music. This station is under ownership of Cumulus Media.

History

This station was WGAT-FM Mar. 13, 1979, WZXY on Oct. 14, 1981, and changed to its current call letters on July 1, 1991.^[1] In 1967, the phone hacker Captain Crunch created a radio station called WKOS [W-"chaos"], a pirate station in nearby Dover-Foxcroft, but had to shut it down when a legitimate radio station, WDME, objected. In the early 1980s, WGAT-FM became WZXY, an AOR station under their nickname "The New Y105, FM Rock". But sometime in the mid to late 1980s, WZXY changed formats from AOR to a CHR/Top 40 format. Through much of the 1990s and a large part of the 2000s the format was a Oldies under their new call letter WKOS, the new slogan was ("Good Times Great Oldies, WKOS Oldies 104.9 FM")^[2] and then adult hits. The station was called "The Peak" when it changed to hot adult contemporary.

On February 24, 2012 WKOS changed their format to country, branded as "Great Country 104.9".

On July 3, 2013 at 3:00PM EDT WKOS re-branded itself as "Nash FM 104.9".

On April 24, 2015 WKOS rebrnaded as "104.9 Nash Icon".^[3]

Sports coverage

In 2007, the East Tennessee State University men's basketball Team moved its games from WJCW to WKOS. This marked the first time the team was heard on FM radio. This has since been moved to AM 640 WXSM, a sister station. ^[4]

Previous logo

(WKOS's logo under previous "Nash FM" branding)

References

1 2 http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=67674&Callsign=WKOS, Retrieved on 2009-03-26.
↑ Radio Station WKOS 104.9 FM Retrieved on 2009-03-26.
↑ WKOS Shifts From Nash to Nash Icon
↑ ETSU BASKETBALL MOVES TO WKOS RADIO Retrieved on 2009-03-26.

External links

WKOS official website

Query the FCC's FM station database for WKOS

Radio-Locator information on WKOS

Radio stations in the Johnson City / Kingsport / Bristol TN–VA market

By AM frequency	640 690 790 870 910 980 1050 1090 1140 1230 1260 1320 1400 1490 1550

By FM frequency	88.3 89.1 89.5 90.3 90.5 90.5 91.5 92.3 92.9 93.5 93.9 94.9 95.9 96.9 97.7 98.5 99.3 100.1 100.7 101.5 102.7 103.1 103.9 104.3 104.9 106.5 106.9 107.3

By callsign	W206BE W213AN WABN WAEZ WAXM WBCM-LP WBGQ WCQR-FM WCSK WETB WETS-FM WEXX WEYE WFHG WFHG-FM WGAT WGOC WHCB WHGG WIGN WIKQ WJCW WKJV-LP WKOS WKPT WMCH WMEV-FM WMIT WOPI WPWT WQUT WRZK WTFM WUMC WVEK-FM WXBQ-FM WXIS WXLZ WXLZ-FM WXSM WZAP

Defunct	WDUF

Tennessee radio markets Chattanooga Jackson Johnson City–Kingsport–Bristol Knoxville Memphis Nashville Other Tennessee radio regions Clarksville Cookeville Virginia radio markets Bristol Fredericksburg Harrisonburg Norfolk–Newport News–Virginia Beach Richmond Roanoke–Lynchburg Winchester Other Virginia radio regions Blacksburg–Christiansburg–Radford–Pulaski Bluefield Charlottesville Eastern Shore Farmville Northern Neck Roanoke Rapids–South Hill Southside Southwest Virginia Virginia Highlands See also List of radio stations in Tennessee List of radio stations in Virginia

Country radio stations in the state of Tennessee

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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

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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°33′14″N 82°27′00″W / 36.554°N 82.450°W / 36.554; -82.450

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