WKDA (900 AM) is a

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broadcasting a Big Band format. Licensed to

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, United States, the station serves the

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area. The station is 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. In the 1960s, WKDA's on-air staff of

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s was promoted collectively as the "WKDA Good Guys" and it had an on-air rivalry for much of this period with

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, for teenage listeners especially. WKDA then maintained studios in the downtown Nashville Stahlman Building; a giant

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readily visible across the

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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

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, which then had an

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format. WKDA was later sold to Nashville broadcaster and entrepreneur Teddy Bart, who used it to broadcast his own programming, namely his long-running talk show ''Roundtable,'' and to serve as the Nashville affiliate of

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during other hours. Later in the 1990s, Bart sold the station to owners who changed the format to

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and the

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to WNSG; the heritage WKDA callsign became available for reassignment and was purchased for use by the current station. Its frequency, 900 AM, was the home of

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station WCOR from 1949 to 2005. WCOR now broadcasts on 1490 AM.

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Radio stations established in 1949 {{Tennessee-radio-station-stub

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