WVNS-FM
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| City of license | Pegram, Tennessee |
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| Broadcast area | Nashville, Tennessee and Clarksville, Tennessee/Hopkinsville, Kentucky |
| Branding | V102.5 |
| Frequency | 102.5 (MHz) |
| First air date | September 10, 1984 |
| Format | Hot Adult Contemporary |
| Power | 100,000 watts |
| Class | C1 |
| Callsign meaning | VeNuS (former nickname) V = Variety (current nickname) |
| Owner | Cromwell Group |
| Website | www.v1025.com |
WVNS-FM is an FM radio station broadcasting at 102.5 MHz. It is licensed to the city of Pegram, Tennessee, but serves the Nashville and Clarksville/Hopkinsville markets. It is currently branded as V102.5 and owned by The Cromwell Group. It is jointly operated and marketed with 102.9 WBUZ "The Buzz", with which it shares management and a sales staff.
On weekdays, V102.5 runs a live, local hot adult contemporary format. However, on weekends, the station runs Jones Radio Networks' Hot AC satellite format.
In 2005, when the station relaunched as Venus 102.5 FM, the station had to make a special request to obtain the WVNS-FM call letters. Per FCC regulations, they were required permission from WVNS-TV in Bluefield/Beckley, West Virginia, which they received. The "Venus" moniker lasted less than a year.
The prior call letters were WQZQ. From 1996 to 2005, the station broadcast a Top 40 format called 102.5 The Party. The station began its life as WDKN-FM in Dickson, Tennessee,to which it was originally licensed and where it simulcast that small-town station's community-oritented format. When the station began to orient itself to the Nashville market its transmitter was moved to Bellsburg, Tennessee, on the Dickson County-Cheatham County line and hence closer to Nashville.
The station also broadcasts over an FM translator, W271AB 102.1FM, which covers western Nashville.
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