WNBS

WNBS

City of license	Murray, Kentucky
Branding	The Source
Frequency	1340 kHz
First air date	1948
Format	News Talk Information
Power	1,000 watts unlimited
Class	C
Facility ID	29695
Transmitter coordinates	36°37′42.00″N 88°18′4.00″W
Callsign meaning	W Nathan B Stubblefield
Affiliations	CBS Radio, Fox Sports Radio, Westwood One
Owner	Forever Communications, Inc.
Webcast	no
Website	1340wnbs.com

WNBS (1340 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a News Talk Information format. Licensed to Murray, Kentucky, USA. The station is currently owned by Forever Communications, Inc. and features programming from CBS Radio, Fox Sports Radio, and Westwood One.

Local Programs

1340 WNBS has popular local programming to help compliment the national programming they also air.

• The Breakfast Show – This show is a place where topics of the day are discussed along with events happening in the Murray / Calloway County area. The Breakfast Show is broadcast live daily from the local Kroger store from 7:00am until 9:00am. The current hosts are Diana Thomason and Pete Lancaster.

• On The Road With Joe Pat James – airs weekdays from 11:00 am until 11:20 am. Joe Pat James, being a fixture in the community has been on the air for what some will say is forever. His show takes its name seriously, as he moves his show on the road, broadcasting from either Kroger or Captain D's. On The Road features community guests, and remembers the history of the broadcast area.

• Sports Lunch – airs weekdays from 11:40 am until 12:00 pm. The voice of the Murray State University Racers talks about area and regional sports happenings. Topics and guests vary by time of year, but it is not uncommon to hear interviews with Tennessee Titans or St. Louis Cardinals broadcasters.

• MISC – WNBS throughout the day also airs local church programming, “The Trading Post”, obituaries, and local news updates.

National Programs

• Glenn Beck 9:00am – 11:00am
• Laura Ingraham 12:00pm – 2:00pm
• Sean Hannity 2:00pm – 5:00pm
• Mark Levin 5:00pm – 7:00pm
• Fox Sports Radio 7:00pm – 6:00am
• These programs may be interrupted in order to air local sports.

Sports

1340 WNBS is the home for Murray High School basketball (boy’s & girl’s) and football, along with Murray State University Racers basketball (men’s & women’s) and football. They are also the local affiliate for St. Louis Cardinals baseball. With their Westwood One affiliation, they also air college football and basketball games periodically on the weekends, along with the Olympics and NCAA March Madness and bowl games.

WNBS also carries the program “Hey Coach”, which is a coach’s show featuring the coaches of the Murray State Racers (both basketball and football), takes place at local eatery The Big Apple Café and is hosted by Neal Bradley.

Station Events

1340 WNBS (along with sister stations WFGS-FM and WOFC-AM) hold different events through the year.

• Annual Home, Lawn & Farm Show – This event dates back over 20 years (the first being held in 1989). It has always been the expo for vendors to show off their wares. There are always vendors that cater to different parts of the show, whether they represent HOME, LAWN or FARM. Often there are also “sub category” areas, like; Children’s Play Area, Women’s World or the Men’s Sit a Spell. This event always occurs within the first quarter of the year. The Annual Home, Lawn & Farm show calls the Regional Special Events Center (RSEC) home currently, thus scheduling is subject to Murray State University basketball games and/or other events that are brought in.

History

WNBS signed on in 1948. It is named for Nathan B. Stubblefield, a Murray resident who was a pioneer in early experiments with wireless voice transmissions. When Murray's commercial radio stations merged in 1997, WNBS was a music station while sister station WSJP focused on news and talk. The two later switched formats and swapped programming to take advantage of the better nighttime signal on WNBS. (WSJP is now WOFC, a sports talk station.)

External links

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