WNOX

For the Oak Ridge, Tennessee radio station that held the call sign WNOX at 100.3 FM from 2005 to 2013, see WCYQ.
WNOX
City Karns, Tennessee
Broadcast area Knoxville, Tennessee
Branding Classic Hits 93.1
Frequency 93.1 MHz
First air date October 3, 1988 (as WCKS)
Format Classic Hits
ERP 2,400 watts
HAAT 156 meters
Class A
Facility ID 29741
Transmitter coordinates 35°57′46.00″N 84°01′23.00″W / 35.9627778°N 84.0230556°W / 35.9627778; -84.0230556
Former callsigns WCKS (1988-1990)
WWZZ (1990-1994)
WWST (1994-2001)
WMYU (2001-2008)
WCYQ (2008-2013)[1]
Owner E.W. Scripps Company
(Scripps Broadcasting Holdings LLC)
Sister stations WKHT, WWST, WCYQ
Webcast Listen Live
Website 931wnox.com

WNOX (93.1 FM, "Classic Hits 93.1") is a radio station broadcasting a classic hits music format. Licensed to the suburb of Karns, Tennessee, it serves the Knoxville, Tennessee metropolitan area. It first began broadcasting in 1988 under the call sign WCKS. The station is currently owned by E.W. Scripps Company.

History

After being assigned the call letters WCKS on October 3, 1988, this station switched call signs to WWZZ on December 3, 1990.

WWST and WMYU frequency swap

On May 20, 1994, 93.1 FM changed to Star 93.1 FM with the call sign "WWST". The format remained Top 40.[2] On that same date, sister station WSEV-FM switched call letters to WMYU as Oldies 102. On March 9, 2001, the two stations swapped frequencies bringing "WMYU" to 93.1 FM while the WWST call letters were moved to 102.1 FM as Star 102.1 where they remain. WMYU most recently broadcast an 80s Oldies format until November 26, 2008, when the station switched to a country music format as Q93 switching their call sign to WCYQ.[1] On May 9, 2013, WCYQ changed their call letters to WNOX, swapping calls with WNOX 100.3 FM Oak Ridge, Tennessee, which took the WCYQ calls.

On May 23, 2013 WNOX split from its simulcast with country-formatted WCYQ 100.3 FM Oak Ridge, Tennessee and changed their format to classic hits, branded as "Classic Hits 93.1".[3] The afternoon drive show is hosted by Frank Murphy, the station's assistant program director.

Journal Communications and The E.W. Scripps Company announced on July 30, 2014 that the two companies would merge to create a new broadcast company under the E.W. Scripps Company name that will own the two companies' broadcast properties, including WNOX. The transaction is slated to be completed in 2015, pending shareholder and regulatory approvals.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=29741&Callsign=WNOX
  2. ↑ Stark, Phyllis (June 4, 1994). "Vox Jox". Billboard. 106 (23): 129.
  3. ↑ http://radioinsight.com/blog/headlines/82141/classic-hits-93-1-launches-in-knoxville/
  4. ↑ "E.W. Scripps, Journal Merging Broadcast Ops". TVNewsCheck. July 30, 2014. Retrieved July 31, 2014.


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