WBUZ (102.9

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, "The Buzz") is a

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, and serving the

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. WBUZ airs an

active rock Active rock is a radio format used by many commercial radio stations across the United States and Canada. Active rock stations play a balance of new hard rock songs with valued classic rock favorites, normally with an emphasis on the harder edge o ...

music format, with elements of

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, calling itself "Nashville's Rock Station." Weekday mornings, it carries the syndicated comedy and

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program "

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." WBUZ is owned by The Cromwell Group, along with

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-formatted

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 ...

and

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-formatted

WQZQ WQZQ (830 AM) is a radio station licensed to Goodlettsville, Tennessee, and serving the Nashville metropolitan area. The station is owned by Cromwell Radio Group, through licensee WYCQ, Inc. It airs a classic hits radio format, calling itself "C ...

. The

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s and offices are on Murfreesboro Pike in Nashville. WBUZ has an

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(ERP) of 100,000

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s. The

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is on Gene Underwood Road in

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, about south of Nashville. WBUZ broadcasts using HD technology. It carries the sports programming of co-owned

on its HD2

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and

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/ Outkick programming on its HD3 subchannel, feeding an

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at 94.9 MHz.

History

On May 1, 1962, the station

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the air in

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, a small city about 60 miles south of Nashville. The

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was WTCV and it mostly

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co-owned WHAL (1400 AM, now WZNG). In 1980, it switched its call letters to WYCQ and it called itself "Q102" with a

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format, but its signal did not cover Nashville. Management asked the

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(FCC) to allow the transmitter to be moved north and to increase the power to 100,000 watts, so it could become part of the Nashville

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. With the boost in power and coverage, the station flipped to a hybrid

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format known as "Rockin' Country 102.9". The station's mascot was an

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cow playing an electric guitar, and the station eventually changed its name to "Moo 102" (WMMU) to match its mascot. The station then shifted toward a mainstream country format and became known as "PC103" and "Power Country 103", before settling on "Power Country 102.9" (WZPC). 1029thebuzz

On April 2, 1999, WZPC flipped to an

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format as "The Buzz," essentially "trading" formats with

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, which had flipped from rock to country the day prior. The station was assigned the WBUZ call letters by the FCC on October 16, 2001. ''

'' from

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replaced ''

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'' from

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as WBUZ's syndicated morning show on November 22, 2006. In September 2010, WBUZ was named the new

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for the

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. After the

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, its new all-sports

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became the team's radio flagship. On June 13, 2022, WBUZ-HD3 changed its branding from "ESPN 94-9" to "94-9 The Fan".

Translators

History of callsign

The callsign WBUZ was originally assigned to a station in Bradbury Heights, Maryland. It began broadcasting January 1, 1948. WBUZ was the call sign of a former AM Top 40 station in

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, from 1993 to 2000 (see

WBOW (1230 AM) WBOW was a radio station on 1230 AM in Terre Haute, Indiana, which broadcast between 1927 and 2001. In the early 1990s, the WBOW intellectual unit moved to a new 640 AM facility. 1230 then became WBFX, WZZQ and WBUZ, closing down when its lice ...

), and prior to that, an AM station in

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References

External links

WBUZ official website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wbuz (Fm) BUZ Active rock radio stations in the United States

History

Translators

History of callsign

See also

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