WFCN
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History | |
First air date | December 1968 |
Former call signs | WQDQ (?–1984) WQZQ (1984–1987) WQDQ (1987–1998) WKDA (1998–2000) WQDQ (2000–2002) WKDA (2002–2006) WAMB (2006–2016) |
Technical information | |
Facility ID | 72879 |
Class | D |
Power | 2,000 watts day 2,000 watts critical hours |
ERP | 250 watts (FM translator) |
Transmitter coordinates | 36°12′30.00″N 86°52′22.00″W / 36.2083333°N 86.8727778°W |
Translator(s) | W254CK (98.7 MHz) |
Links | |
Webcast | Listen Live |
Website | www |
WFCN is an
WFCN operates with 2,000 watts in both daytime and critical hours, but because
. The FM translator, however, is permitted to operate 24 hours a day.History
WFCN first
From a small start, Barry decided to eschew mainstream broadcasters' increasing focus then on younger people with a counter-marketing strategy. He and his sales staff instead attracted and cultivated advertisers whose products appealed largely to older listeners – Cadillac automobiles, retirement homes, prepaid funeral plans, and medical services (once the FCC started allowing those providers to advertise). Barry eventually was able to raise the station's daytime power to the legal maximum of 50,000 watts, although the station could not broadcast at night due to the clear channel system of AM frequencies in North America (see above).
Barry's station and its programming attracted a small (by
The primary threat to Barry and WAMB became the passage of time, and Barry's original business model, once very profitable, would eventually become unsustainable. Each year, a certain percentage of his targeted audience died and, for the most part, was not replaced by younger listeners, most of whom were either unfamiliar with the big-band genre or else disliked it due to its elderly image, as portrayed often in general American popular culture from the 1960s onward (see "generation gap" above). In recognition of this fact and to compensate for it, some newer music from the "easy-listening" category of artists such as
Roundtable
WAMB was the last Nashville radio station to carry Teddy Bart's Roundtable weekday morning discussion program. Bart, a veteran Nashville broadcaster who came to the city originally as a
Later, Bart and Evins offered a regular podcast titled "Beyond Reason," an exploration of religious and metaphysical interpretation of current events; both hosts long maintained interests in the paranormal. This continued until shortly before Bart's death in December 2014.
Format change: January 2014
Station owner Bill Barry died in September 2013 at the age of 88. In the wake of his death, his family entered into an
Ownership change: June 2016
Effective June 8, 2016, WAMB was bought by Moody Radio to simulcast the Christian radio programming heard on nearby station WFCM-FM in Murfreesboro. To make a clean break with the past, the station changed its call sign to WFCN on June 9, 2016. WFCN was taken off the air in order to conduct repairs on the transmitter.[5]
The WAMB callsign is presently used by a
See also
- List of Nashville media
References
External links
- WFCN in the FCC AM station database
- WFCN in Nielsen Audio's AM station database