WCOR is an AM

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broadcasting in the eastern portion of the

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, market with a power of 1,000 watts. In its early years, WCOR functioned as a community-oriented station aimed primarily at residents of

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. (It is licensed to the county seat of Wilson County,

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). After this format became untenable in the 1980s (as it did for many small-town radio stations, particularly those located adjacent to major and mid-major markets), the station, after going

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for a period, resumed operation, marketing itself to particularly the eastern portion of the wider Nashville market. The majority of its programming now consists of a

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of its FM sister station,

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, but some separate sports programming is also carried associated with Lebanon's Cumberland University. In fall 2005, the station moved from 900 kHz, where it had spent nearly 60 years, to a newly licensed frequency of 1490 kHz. The station is an affiliate of the

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radio network.

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