WKOS

For the Ocala, Florida, radio station, see WOCA.

WKOS (104.9 FM), branded as "104.9 Nash Icon", is a radio station serving the Tri-Cities, Tennessee, area with country music. This station is under ownership of Cumulus Media.

WKOS

Kingsport, Tennessee
Broadcast area	Tri-Cities, Tennessee
Frequency	104.9 MHz
Branding	104.9 Nash Icon
Programming
Format	Country
Ownership
Owner	Cumulus Media (Radio License Holding CBC, LLC)
Sister stations	WGOC, WJCW, WQUT, WXSM
History
First air date	1979 (as WGAT-FM)
Former call signs	WGAT-FM (1979–1981) WZXY (1981–1991)[1]
Call sign meaning	cite
Technical information[2]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	67674
Class	A
ERP	2,750 watts
HAAT	150 meters (490 ft)
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	1049nashicon.com

History

This station was assigned the call sign WGAT-FM on March 13, 1979. It changed calls to WZXY on October 14, 1981, and changed to its current callsign on July 1, 1991.^[1] In the early 1980s, WGAT-FM became WZXY, an album-oriented rock station branded "Y105". Sometime in the mid- to late-1980s, WZXY changed its to CHR/Top 40. Through much of the 1990s and a large part of the 2000s, the format was oldies under its new callsign WKOS,^{[3][citation needed]} and then adult hits. The station was called "The Peak" when it changed to hot adult contemporary.

WKOS's logo under previous "Nash FM" branding

On February 24, 2012, WKOS changed formats to country, branded as "Great Country 104.9".^[4] On July 3, 2013, at 3:00 p.m. EDT, WKOS re-branded itself as "Nash FM 104.9".^[5] On April 24, 2015, WKOS rebranded as "104.9 Nash Icon".^[6]

Sports coverage

In 2007, the East Tennessee State University men's basketball Team moved its games from WJCW 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.^[7]

Pirate radio station "WKOS" in Maine

In 1967, the phone hacker Captain Crunch created a radio station called WKOS [W-"chaos"], a pirate station in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine, but had to shut it down when a licensed radio station, WDME, objected. ^{[citation needed]}