WNSG

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WNSG is a gospel music-format AM radio station broadcasting on a frequency of 880 kHz in Nashville, Tennessee. The station formerly broadcasted at 1240 kHz; current power is 2,500 watts.

The station was formerly known as WKDA. Under this name it broadcasted from the Stahlman Building in downtown Nashville for many years, becoming the first Nashville radio station, in the early 1960s, to convert to an all-rock music format. WKDA attempted to make its disc jockeys into major local celebrities, as had become the rage in many large U.S. cities.

WKDA's listenership went into decline in the late 1960s and particularly in the early 1970s, under withering competition from WMAK, WLAC, and especially the switch of music listeners in general, and, at the time, rock listeners in particular, to FM. WKDA started its own FM station, WKDF, which originally had more of an "album rock" format, and the large neon sign on the Stalman Building was changed to reflect this, for a while flashing from "A" to "F" and eventually left on the "F". (Although the station has long vacated the Stahlman, which is being renovated, as of 2006 the sign still remains.) In later years, WKDA changed to a country music format, and afterwards wound up in the hands of Nashville newscaster/entrepreneur Teddy Bart, who brought in a news-talk format featuring his own show and CNN radio, until it was sold to the current ownership, which introduced gospel and adopted the current callsign, derived from "Nashville's Sound of Gospel".