WMDB

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WMDB
City	Nashville, Tennessee
Broadcast area	Nashville
Branding	La Ranchera 880
Frequency	880 kHz
Format	Regional Mexican
Power	2,500 watts day 2 watts night
Class	D
Facility ID	3540
Transmitter coordinates	36°12′43.19910″N 86°49′8.99705″W / 36.2119997500°N 86.8191658472°W / 36.2119997500; -86.8191658472Coordinates: 36°12′43.19910″N 86°49′8.99705″W / 36.2119997500°N 86.8191658472°W / 36.2119997500; -86.8191658472
Owner	Mark Janbakhsh (TBLC Media #2, LLC)
Website	www.laranchera880.com

WMDB is a Regional Mexican-format AM radio station broadcasting on a frequency of 880 kHz in Nashville, Tennessee. The station formerly broadcast at 1240 kHz as WSNG; current power is 2,500 Watts. The station is currently owned by Mahan Janbakhsh, through licensee TBLC Media #2, LLC.^[1] Nighttime power is reduced to 2 watts to protect the signal of WCBS in New York, New York. WCBS is the dominant Class A signal on 880 AM.

The station was formerly known as WKDA. Under this name and its former 1240 kc frequency it broadcast from the Stahlman Building in downtown Nashville for many years, becoming the first Nashville radio station, in the early 1960s, to convert to an all-rock music format. WKDA attempted to make its disc jockeys into major local celebrities, as had become the rage in many large U.S. cities.

WKDA's listenership went into decline in the late 1960s, under withering competition from WMAK, WLAC, and especially the switch of music listeners in general, and, at the time, rock listeners in particular, to FM. By 1970, WKDA had changed to a country music format; in the 1980s, it wound up in the hands of Nashville newscaster/entrepreneur Teddy Bart, who brought in a news-talk format featuring his own show and CNN radio, until it was sold to other owners who introduced gospel and rechristened it WNSG.

References

↑ "WMDB Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division. Retrieved 2011-02-17.

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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	162.475 162.55

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 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

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