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Jack Alicoate, ed. (1939), "Tennessee", Radio Annual, New York: Radio Daily, OCLC 2459636 – via Internet Archive "AM Stations in the U.S.: Tennessee", Radio Annual Television Year Book, New York: Radio Television Daily, 1963, OCLC 10512375 – via Internet Archive
An early show on the station was "WOPI Jamboree", which featured live country music. In the 1940s, WOPI and WKPT formed a network called "the Sister City Network" for broadcasting local information. [1] WOPI-FM signed on Christmas Day 1946 as the area's first FM station. It was sold to the owner of WKYE in the 1960s and is now WXBQ-FM. [1]
WMFS-FM (92.9 MHz) is a United States commercial sports radio station in Bartlett, Tennessee, broadcasting to the Memphis, Tennessee area, owned by Audacy, Inc. WMFS is the radio home for the Memphis Grizzlies. The station's studios are in Southeast Memphis, and the transmitter tower is in Northeast Memphis.
WOPI employs a Bristol translator at 97.9 FM. WKPT has, for decades, featured live play-by-play sports of the University Of Tennessee/Knoxville (the "Vols" or "Big Orange") from the Vol Radio Network. This included the 1999 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl in which the Vols defeated the Florida State Seminoles 23-16 for the first BCS national championship.
WMFS (680 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station located in Memphis, Tennessee. WMFS airs sports radio programming branded as "ESPN 680AM Sports Radio Memphis". [2] The station simulcasts with WMFS-FM 92.9. WMFS is home to the Geoff Calkins Show, the Jason and John Show, the Giannotto & Jeffrey Show, and the Gabe Kuhn Show.
"Bristol Broadcasting Company" is a radio station chain operating 29 stations in four Southern United States markets: the Tri-Cities area of upper-east Tennessee and southwest Virginia (receiving its name from the twin cities of Bristol, Virginia, and Bristol, Tennessee), Marion, Virginia; Paducah, Kentucky; and Charleston, West Virginia. [1]
In 1960, the radio stations were sold to Tri-Cities Broadcasting, [4] owned by James C. Wilson (son of the founder of the area's first radio station, WOPI in Bristol) [5] Channel 11 kept the WJHL-TV callsign, while AM 910 was renamed WJCW after Wilson's initials and continued to program an middle of the road, full service format.
WXIS (103.9 FM) is an all-news radio station serving Elizabethton, Greeneville, and the Tri-Cities region of Johnson City, Kingsport and Bristol in Tennessee, as well as Bristol in Virginia. The WEMB outlet operates with an ERP of 6 kW and is licensed and based in Erwin, Tennessee .