Top Music Stations in Tennessee
You have a blast listening to music, while working, working out, and driving in your car. Sometimes though, you have troubles finding a music station that fits you. Sometimes your favorite station changes and what used to be a couple of minutes of commercials once an hour has become a couple of minutes of music once an hour! Or maybe you are new to Tennessee, just visiting the area, or possibly just need a change. You have come to the right place.
Here we have all of the top Tennessee music stations in one place, you are sure to find one that meets your tastes. Try out all of the Tennessee stations and then give us your opinion on the best, worst, and any we don’t have on the list that should be. Whether you are in Tennessee for a visit or have lived here for years, we want to hear your opinion.
We have catered our list of Tennessee stations to the local opinions we have received so don’t stop sending them in. Music is an important part of our lives, in Tennessee, and anywhere else. Music stations are also a personal thing. What is music to you? Is it what gets you through your daily commute in Tennessee? Is it what you jam to in the shower? Is it what calms and centers you at work?
Mix 92.9
Nashville, TN
WJXA (92.9 FM) is a radio station broadcasting an adult contemporary format. Licensed to Nashville, Tennessee, USA, the station serves the Nashville, Bowling Green, Clarksville-Hopkinsville area. The station is currently owned by South Central Communications Corporation. The station went on the air in the 1970s as the easy-listening WZEZ. The station has, for a number of years now, adhered to a “light rock” (or adult contemporary) format aimed primarily at female listeners.
107.9 Big FM
Chattanooga, TN
WOGT (107.9 FM) is a radio station serving the Chattanooga, Tennessee, area with a classic hits format. It is under ownership of Cumulus Media. Until it became a country music station called “107.9 The Duke” on July 29, 2005, the station had an oldies format known as “GT 108” that later changed to “Oldies 107.9” then back to GT 108. Before that it was known as WJRX and played Contemporary Christian music under the name “RX 107”. On November 24, 2010 at 12 noon, WOGT changed their format to classic hits, branded as “Big 107.9”.
Star 102.1 FM
Knoxville, TN
WWST (102.1 FM, “Star 102.1”) is a radio station licensed to Sevierville, Tennessee, and serving the Knoxville market. It is owned by the Journal Broadcast Group. The station is a CHR station that broadcasts with 15,000 watts of power and is known on-air as “Star 102.1, Your #1 Hit Music Station”.
WGNS
Murfreesboro, TN
WGNS is a radio station based in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, United States. The station operates at 1450 kHz on the AM dial. The call letters are an acronym representing the phrase, “Good Neighbor Station”. The station covers Murfreesboro, Tennessee proper as well as the surrounding counties. WGNS also operates class A television station WETV-LP channel 11, which simulcasts the audio from WGNS and local talk programming. The station also has two FM translators at 100.5 FM and 101.9 FM, which are also licensed to Murfreesboro.
Soul Classics 103.5
Memphis, TN
WRBO (103.5 FM, “Soul Classics 103.5”) is a radio station serving the Memphis, Tennessee metropolitan area with an Gold-based Urban Adult Contemporary format. It is under ownership of Cumulus Media. Originally a Urban Oldies outlet, WRBO began phasing in Adult R&B currents by 2011 but continue to play Old School and R&B classics. The station currently airs the syndicated Steve Harvey Morning Show and Love, Lust and Lies with Michael Baisden.
104.5 The Zone
Nashville, TN
WGFX is a radio station broadcasting on the FM band at 104.5 MHz licensed to the city of Gallatin, Tennessee, but serving the Nashville market as a whole. It is currently branded as 104.5 The Zone, broadcasting a sports talk format. It is owned by Cumulus Media and operates out of studios on Second Avenue South in Nashville. Its transmitter is located just north of downtown Nashville.
KIX 106
Memphis, TN
WGKX (105.9 FM, “Kix 106”) is a country music formatted radio station in Memphis, Tennessee. It is owned by Cumulus Media. Duane Shannon and Abby Summers, known as Duane and Abby, previously on WOGT Chattanooga, replaced Brian Elder and Jay Young in the morning late in 2010. Duane and Abby are one of the few married morning teams.
92Q
Nashville, TN
WQQK is an Urban Adult Contemporary FM radio station broadcasting in the Nashville, Tennessee market on a frequency of 92.1 MHz. Beginning in the 1970s as the pioneering station of the “rock oldies” format in the Nashville market, “92-Q” WQQK was later reformatted to Urban contemporary format and currently features a large proportion of rap music in its programming, albeit only Old school hip hop in regular rotation nowadays, which is a rarity for the perdominately R&B/Classic Soul Urban AC format, due to competition from WUBT.
103.7 Kiss FM
Chattanooga, TN
WKXJ (103.7 FM, “103.7 KISS-FM”) is a radio station licensed to Walden, Tennessee, USA, and serving the Chattanooga, Tennessee, area. The station operates a Top 40 music format and is branded as “103.7 KISS-FM”. They are owned by Clear Channel Communications.
WZYX Radio
Cowan, TN
WZYX (1440 AM) is a radio station that broadcasts SAM FM. It is licensed to Cowan, Tennessee, USA. The station is owned by Christopher Thomas Wizeman, through licensee Wiseman Media. WZYX Radio is broadcast over the AM dial at 1440, and over the FM dial at 94.5. The Bob Peters Show with Dick Wolff is a Tuesday 6 to 7 P.M. feature for the radio station. The Community Shopper show airs every Saturday Morning at 10 AM and Tuesday Morning at 8AM.
