WNSR
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| Branding | WNSR SportsRadio |
| Programming | |
| Format | Sports radio |
| Affiliations | Infinity Sports Network |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Southern Wabash Communications of Middle Tennessee, Inc. |
| WPDQ | |
| History | |
First air date | 1981 |
Former call signs |
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Call sign meaning | "Nashville's Sports Radio" |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 41062 |
| Class | D |
| Power |
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Transmitter coordinates |
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| Translator(s) |
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| Repeater(s) | 103.9 WRFM (Drakesboro, Kentucky) |
| Links | |
Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | wnsr.com |
WNSR (560
radio station. WNSR's majority owner is Randolph Victor Bell, and the station's general manager is former WSM
personality Ted Johnson.
History
The station converted to its current format in 1996, with the call letters WYOR, when all-
TNA Wrestling). Long-time Nashville sports broadcasting figure George Plaster
joined the station's staff in September 2019, leaving in 2022.
Listening area
WNSR is licensed to the Nashville
WHBQ, just under 200 airline miles away in Memphis. As a result, WNSR's signal can be heard clearly from as far away as Southwestern Indiana, South Central Kentucky and North Alabama
between sunrise and sunset. At night, when WHBQ has a 1,000-watt signal, WNSR broadcasts at a nighttime power (75 watts) from a nondirectional, one-tower antenna just southeast of downtown Nashville.
However, the listening area has been effectively enlarged by the purchase of WRFM (formerly WNTC and WPDQ), a Class A FM station licensed to Drakesboro, Kentucky, considerably north of the traditional Nashville market area, which now simulcasts WNSR programming, putting it into the Clarksville/Hopkinsville market area.
In addition, the station also signed on over translator station W240CA (95.9 FM), which serves the Nashville/Davidson County area and the Williamson County area, including the Brentwood, Franklin, and some parts of Spring Hill, Tennessee areas.
Programming
WNSR currently is in affiliation with
Yahoo! Sports Radio (formerly Sporting News Radio, and Sports Fan Radio Network prior to that) and NBC Sports Radio
. The station also broadcasts local sports, both talk shows and play-by-play as well.
See also
- List of Nashville media
External links
- WNSR official website
- WNSR in the FCC AM station database
- WNSR in Nielsen Audio's AM station database
- W240CA in the FCC FM station database
- W240CA at FCCdata.org
- W300DO in the FCC FM station database
- W300DO at FCCdata.org
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WNSR". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.