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| Broadcast area | Tri-Cities, Tennessee |
| Frequency | 104.9MHz |
| Branding | 104.9 Nash Icon |
| Programming | |
| Format | Country |
| Ownership | |
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| WGOC,WJCW,WQUT,WXSM | |
| History | |
First air date | January 21, 1970 (1970-01-21) |
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| Technical information[2] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 67674 |
| Class | A |
| ERP | 2,750watts |
| HAAT | 150 meters (490 ft) |
| Links | |
Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | 1049nashicon.com |
WKOS (104.9FM), branded as "104.9 Nash Icon", is aradio station serving theTri-Cities, Tennessee, area withcountry music. This station is under ownership ofCumulus Media.
WGAT-FM began broadcasting on January 21, 1970, as the FM sister station of WGAT AM.[3] It changed calls to WZXY on October 14, 1981, and changed to its current callsign on July 1, 1991.[1] In the early 1980s, WGAT-FM became WZXY, analbum-oriented rock station branded "Y105". Sometime in the mid- to late-1980s, WZXY changed its toCHR/Top 40. Through much of the 1990s and a large part of the 2000s, the format wasoldies under its new callsign WKOS,[4][citation needed] and thenadult hits. The station was called "The Peak" when it changed tohot adult contemporary.
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On February 24, 2012, WKOS changed formats to country, branded as "Great Country 104.9".[5] On July 3, 2013, at 3:00 p.m. EDT, WKOS re-branded itself as "Nash FM 104.9".[6] On April 24, 2015, WKOS rebranded as "104.9 Nash Icon".[7]
In 2007, theEast Tennessee State University men's basketball Team moved its games fromWJCW to WKOS. This marked the first time the team was heard on FM radio. This has since been moved to AM 640 WXSM, a sister station.[8]
In 1967, the phone hackerCaptain Crunch created a radio station called WKOS [W-"chaos"], a pirate station inDover-Foxcroft, Maine, but had to shut it down when a licensed radio station,WDME, objected.[citation needed]
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