WNFN

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WNFN is an FM radio station broadcasting in the Nashville, Tennessee market on a frequency of 106.7 mHz.

Techncially licensed to the affluent Nashville suburb of Belle Meade, WNFN was formerly operated under the callsign of WNPL ("The Planet"), and had previously been marketed as a "women's station" and later as a rap music station, Blazin' 106.7. The current all-sports format was adopted on December 23, 2004, in part as a way of splitting the sports shows then broadcast on WWTN away from the political talk shows that it otherwise broadcasts on the premise that the overlap in listenership between the two formats is minimal, and the callsign change soon followed. The station has marketed itself as "Nashville's only all-sports FM" and "Nashville's Sports Leader".

The once-popular SportsNight afternoon drive-time talk show was briefly simulcast on both WWTN and WNPL/WNFN before being relegated to WNPL/WNFN alone in early 2005. Due in part to the lower power of WNFN and in part to the previous departure of popular host George Plaster to competitor WGFX, SportsNight (hosted by Blake Fulton, Joe Biddle and, for around two years, Pete Weber) fell into a precipitous ratings decline. Both it and the mid-day local talk show Sports Brunch (hosted by John Dwyer and Bryan Mullen) were discontinued in March 2006. The station now broadcasts primarily programming from ESPN radio and selected major sporting events.

As of August, 2006 WNFN ESPN 106.7 The Fan has become the Flagship station for MTSU athletics.