WLOD (1140 AM), is a

radio station Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radi ...

broadcasting from

Loudon, Tennessee Loudon is a city in and the county seat of Loudon County, Tennessee, United States. Its population was 6,001 at the 2020 census. It is included in the Knoxville, Tennessee Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city is located in East Tennessee ...

, just southwest of

Knoxville Knoxville is a city in and the county seat of Knox County in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 United States census, Knoxville's population was 190,740, making it the largest city in the East Tennessee Grand Division and the state ...

, and was formerly owned by Blount Broadcasting Corporation. On October 14, 2021, at 15:30, began operating under a Local Marketing Agreemnt with Radio Loudon LLC. Radio Loudon LLC then became the licensee on March 22, 2022. WLOD began airing Scott Shannon's True Oldies Channel on April 1, 2022 at Midnight. The station first

signed on Signing may refer to: * Using sign language * Signature, placing one's name on a document * Signature (disambiguation) * Manual communication, signing as a form of communication using the hands in place of the voice * Digital signature A dig ...

the air on January 1, 1983, as WLNT.Broadcasting Yearbook 1983 page B-227
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AM 1140 The following radio stations broadcast on AM frequency 1140 kHz: 1140 AM is a Mexican and United States clear-channel frequency. XEMR Monterrey, Mexico, and WRVA Richmond, Virginia, share Class A status of 1140 AM. In Argentina * La Lu ...

is a clear channel frequency reserved for Class A stations WRVA in

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and XEMR in

Monterrey, Mexico Monterrey ( , ) is the capital and largest city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León, Mexico, and the third largest city in Mexico behind Guadalajara and Mexico City. Located at the foothills of the Sierra Madre Oriental, the city is ancho ...

, WLOD must

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at sunset to avoid interfering with those stations. July 27th, 2020 WLOD added FM translator W284DC at 104.7Mhz Previous Ownership History: Tellico Broadcasting Company 1/1/83-09/25/1985 Owners: James McGhee & Howard Oberholtzer Jr. Studios located at 405 Mulberry Street, Loudon TN Loudon Broadcasters 09/25/1985-10/27/1998 Owners: Gene Chrusciel & Doyle Lowe Studios located at 405 Mulberry Street, Loudon TN Metrowest/Horne Radio 10/27/1998-12/4/2009 Owner: Doug Horne Studios located at 317 Watt Road, Farragut TN Blount Broadcasting 12/04/2009-3/22/2022 Owners: Jim & Johnnie Sexton Studios located at 261 Hannum Street Alcoa, TN

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