WNRQ

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WNRQ
City of license	Nashville, Tennessee
Broadcast area	Nashville, Tennessee
Branding	105.9 The Rock
Slogan	Nashville's Classic Rock Station
Frequency	105.9 MHz (also on HD Radio) 105.9 HD2 for WLAC simulcast formaly Vinyl Vineyard
Format	Classic rock
ERP	98,000 watts
HAAT	376 meters
Class	C
Facility ID	34392
Callsign meaning	Nashville's RoQ (pronounced as "Rock")
Former callsigns	WKQB (?-1981) WJYN (1981–1983) WLAC-FM (1983–1998)
Owner	Clear Channel Communications
Sister stations	WLAC, WRVW, WSIX, WUBT
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	1059therock.com

WNRQ is an FM radio station in Nashville, Tennessee, broadcasting on a frequency of 105.9 MHz. It serves counties in northern middle Tennessee and southern central Kentucky.

History/ownership

WNRQ has previously been adult contemporary "Star 106" WLAC-FM and WJYN, the latter reflecting a former easy listening format, "The Joy of Nashville". It has always been the partner station of the historical WLAC, through numerous ownership changes (presently held by Clear Channel Communications).

In 1998, Dick Broadcasting, owner of WGFX, and SFX Broadcasting, the then-owner of WLAC-FM, agreed to trade the intellectual property of the stations. The trade, to have taken place February 2, 1998, would have moved WLAC-FM to 104.5 FM, and moved WGFX's classic rock format to 105.9 under SFX ownership. However, when the agreement fell apart, SFX decided to go ahead with launching a classic rock format anyway, and flipped WLAC-FM to WNRQ that month.

Current format

The current format features a mixture of fairly hard classic rock deemed to be primarily male-oriented; most of the station's playlist first hit middle Tennessee airwaves on the now-country-formatted WKDF during the 1970s and 1980s. It is also Nashville's broadcaster of the syndicated John Boy and Billy morning show, heard on numerous Southern stations with the same format as WNRQ.

Former disc jockeys

"Moose" – currently programs WCJK-FM, or "96.3 Jack FM," Murfreesboro/Nashville.
"Proud Mary" – Worked Before at sister station WRVW, Status now unknown
"Big Rig" – Worked Nights, was at WFBQ, now at WXTB
"Squeegie" – Now at WBUZ-FM
"Riley"
"Joe Elvis" - afternoons: was the last live show on the station; let go in August 2013 for automation

HD Radio

WNRQ also broadcasts two HD Radio stations: WNRQ-HD1 and WNRQ-HD2. HD1 is a simulcast of the analog station, while HD2 was a Clear Channel Communications-provided channel called "Vinyl Vineyard", but due to technical diffaculties, the simulcast of sister station 1510 WLAC has moved to the HD2 signal, replacing "Vinyl Vineyard". HD3 is now silent.

External links

Query the FCC's FM station database for WNRQ

Radio-Locator information on WNRQ

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WNRQ

v t e Nashville radio stations

By FM frequency	88.1 88.3 88.5 88.7/94.5/99.3 89.1 89.5 89.9 90.3 90.7 91.1 91.7 92.1 92.9 93.7 94.1 94.5 94.9 95.5 96.3 97.1 97.9 98.7 98.9 99.7 100.1 101.1 102.1 102.5 102.9 103.3 104.5 104.9 105.1 105.9 106.7 107.1 107.5 107.9

By AM frequency	560 650 760 830 880 900 980 1160 1200 1300 1380 1430 1470 1490 1510

By callsign	W214BQ W235BW WAMB WANT WAYM/W233AF/W257AR WAYW WBOZ WBUZ WCJK WCOR WCRT/WCRT-FM1 WCVQ WECV WENO WFCL WFCM-FM WFFH WFFI WFSK-FM WGFX WHEW WHPY-FM WJXA WKDA WKDF WLAC WLVU WMDB WMOT WMTS-FM WNFN WNQM WNRQ WNSR WPLN WPLN-FM WPRT-FM/W271AB WQQK WQZQ WRFN-LP WRLT WRVW WSIX-FM WSM WSM-FM WUBT WVCP WVOL WWCR-SW WVRY WWTN WYFN

By NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.475 162.550

Defunct	WRVU WSM-FM (1941–1951)

Tennessee radio markets Chattanooga Jackson Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol Knoxville Memphis Nashville Other Tennessee radio regions Clarksville Cookeville See also List of radio stations in Tennessee

v t e Classic rock radio stations in the state of Tennessee

By frequency	100.3 101.5 102.7 102.7 103.5 105.9 106.5

By callsign	WEGR WEKX WIMZ WNRQ WQUT WSKZ WYDL

By city	Arlington Chattanooga Jellico Johnson City Knoxville Middleton Nashville

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Tennessee See also active rock classic rock mainstream rock modern rock

v t e Clear Channel Communications

Corporate officers	Bob Pittman (CEO, CC Media Holdings, Inc.) John Hogan (Chairman/CEO, Clear Channel Media and Entertainment)

Board of directors	Lowry Mays (Chairman) Irving Azoff B. J. "Red" McCombs J. C. Watts John H. Williams

Radio stations	List of radio stations owned by Clear Channel

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Miscellaneous	Clear Channel Outdoor Clear Channel UK iHeartRadio Mediabase

Coordinates: 36°02′10″N 86°50′56″W / 36.036°N 86.849°W / 36.036; -86.849

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