Cromwell Radio Group is a privately held

radio broadcasting Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radio ...

company based in

Nashville, Tennessee Nashville is the capital city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat, seat of Davidson County, Tennessee, Davidson County. With a population of 689,447 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 U.S. census, Nashville is the List of muni ...

. They currently own and operate 32 stations:

History

The company was founded in 1969 when founder and president of the Company, Bayard H. Walters applied to the Federal Communications Commission for permission to construct a new AM radio station in

Hawesville, Kentucky Hawesville is a home rule-class city on the south bank of the Ohio River in Hancock County, Kentucky, in the United States. It is the seat of its county. The population was 945 at the 2010 census. It is included in the Owensboro metropolitan are ...

. (That station was Country Music formatted

WKCM WKCM (1160 AM) is an American radio station licensed to serve the community of Hawesville, Kentucky. The station is owned and operated by Hancock Communications, Inc., doing business as the Cromwell Radio Group, and the station's broadcast licen ...

, & is still owned by Cromwell to this day.) From that station, which went on the air in November of 1972, The company has grown by building new stations from scratch or buying underdeveloped stations and improving the facilities by increasing power and performance of those stations.Cromwell Radio Home Page
/ref> In 1990, The Tennessee market became part of the Cromwell family, when the company acquired WQZQ-FM (now

WPRT-FM WPRT-FM (102.5 FM, "ESPN Nashville, The Game") is an ESPN Radio- affiliated sports FM radio station broadcasting at 102.5 MHz. It is licensed to the city of Pegram, Tennessee, but serves the Nashville and Clarksville/ Hopkinsville marke ...

) & WYCQ-FM (now WBUZ). Also at the same time, The Company relocated its corporate headquarters from Hawesville, Kentucky to

. Also since that time, the number of stations that Cromwell owns has since increased, as federal laws have permitted, the number of stations in each of the markets has been expanded to three or more. (As by rules of The FCC, as of 2011, allows a single company to own a maximum of five FM stations and two AM stations in any given market; translator stations however are exempted by the FCC, as is there no ownership limit to owning translator stations.)//

Radio Stations owned by The Cromwell Group

References

{{reflist Radio broadcasting companies of the United States Companies based in Nashville, Tennessee