WKDA

WKDA

City of license	Lebanon, Tennessee
Broadcast area	Nashville
Frequency	900 kHz
Format	Spanish
Power	5,000 watts day 100 watts night
Class	A
Facility ID	71289
Transmitter coordinates	36°9′49.00″N 86°42′55.00″W
Owner	Wilson County Broadcasting, Inc.

WKDA (900 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Spanish format. Licensed to Lebanon, Tennessee, USA, the station serves the Nashville area. The station is currently owned by Wilson County Broadcasting, Inc.

History

The WKDA callsign was used in Nashville for a long period on the AM frequency of 1240 kHz. The old WKDA was the first Nashville station to adopt an all-rock and roll format when that form of music first became popular^{[citation needed]}; in the 1960s its on-air staff of disc jockeys were promoted as the "WKDA Good Guys" and it had an on-air rivalry for much of this period with WMAK. WKDA then had its studios in the downtown Nashville Stahlman Building; a giant neon sign readily visible across the Cumberland River in East Nashville advertised this fact.

As AM radio declined in popularity with music listeners in the 1970s, WKDA lost listenership, largely to its own FM sister, now WKDF, which then had an Album Rock format. WKDA was later sold to Nashville broadcaster and entrepreneur Teddy Bart, who used it to broadcast his own programming and to serve as the Nashville affiliate of CNN Radio during other hours. Later in the 1990s Bart sold the station to owners who changed to format to gospel music and the callsign to WNSG; the historical WKDA callsign became available for reassignment and was purchased for use by the current station.

Its frequency, 900 AM, was the home of Lebanon's WCOR from 1949 to 2005. WCOR now broadcasts on 1490 AM.

See also

• List of Nashville media

External links

• Query the FCC's AM station database for WKDA
• Radio-Locator Information on WKDA
• Query Arbitron's AM station database for WKDA