WKOS (104.9 FM), branded as "104.9 Nash Icon", is a

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serving the

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, area with

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. This station is under ownership of

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History

This station was WGAT-FM Mar. 13, 1979, WZXY on Oct. 14, 1981, and changed to its current call letters on July 1, 1991. In 1967, the phone hacker Captain Crunch created a radio station called WKOS -"chaos" a pirate station in nearby Dover-Foxcroft, but had to shut it down when a legitimate radio station, WDME, objected. the format was an

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under their new call letter WKOS, the new slogan was ''"Good Times Great Oldies! Oldies 104.9, WKOS"''. On February 24, 2012, WKOS changed their format to country, branded as ''"The New Great Country 104.9 WKOS"''. On July 3, 2013, at 3:00 pm EDT WKOS re-branded itself as ''"The New Nash FM 104.9"''. And then on April 24, 2015, WKOS rebranded as ''"Nash Icon 104.9"''.

Sports coverage

In 2007, the East Tennessee State University men's basketball Team moved its games from

WJCW WJCW (910 AM) is a commercial radio station, licensed to Johnson City, Tennessee and serving the Tri-Cities radio market (Johnson City-Bristol- Kingsport). It is owned by Cumulus Media and airs a talk radio format. WJCW's transmitter, offices ...

to WKOS. This marked the first time the team was heard on FM radio. This has since been moved to AM 640 WXSM, a sister station.ETSU BASKETBALL MOVES TO WKOS RADIO
Retrieved on 2009-03-26.

Previous logo

(WKOS's logo under previous "Nash FM" branding)

References

External links

WKOS official website
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A commercial for WZXY ("Y-105") from 1982One of the commercials for WZXY, as a Top 40 station
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