WSAA (93.1 FM) is a

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broadcasting a

Christian worship In Christianity, worship is the act of attributing reverent honour and homage to God. In the New Testament, various words are used to refer to the term worship. One is ("to worship") which means to bow down to God or kings. Worship in the N ...

format from

Air1 Air1 is an American Christian radio network owned by the Educational Media Foundation (EMF), a non-profit Christian ministry. It primarily broadcasts contemporary worship music, and is a sister to the EMF's K-Love network. History On July 15, ...

. Licensed to

Benton, Tennessee Benton is a town in Polk County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 1,532 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat. Benton is included in the Cleveland, Tennessee Metropolitan Statistical Area. History Benton was founded in 1840 as a ...

, United States, the station serves the

Cleveland, Tennessee Cleveland is the county seat of, and largest city in, Bradley County, Tennessee. The population was 47,356 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Cleveland metropolitan area, Tennessee (consisting of Bradle ...

area. The station is owned by

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History

The station was assigned the call sign WBIN-FM on July 3, 1992; it signed on in November 1996 with an

adult contemporary Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the 1980s to the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul ...

format. In April 1998, WBIN-FM dropped a

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format and began simulcasting a southern gospel format with WBIN (1540 AM); on May 18, 1998, the station changed its call sign to WOCE, ahead of a change to adult contemporary that July. In September 2000, the adult contemporary format moved to WCLE-FM (104.1); WOCE then changed to a

ranchera Ranchera () or canción ranchera is a genre of traditional music of Mexico. It dates to before the years of the Mexican Revolution. Rancheras today are played in the vast majority of regional Mexican music styles. Drawing on rural traditional fo ...

format from

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. By February 2001, the station was carrying programming from the Z-Spanish Network, switching from its Spanish-language hits programming to

regional Mexican Regional Mexican music refers collectively to the regional subgenres of the country music of Mexico and its derivatives from the Southwestern United States. Each subgenre is representative of a certain region and its popularity also varies by ...

. On April 3, 2006, the call sign was changed to WSAA. Following a silent period, the station returned to the air with a

country music Country (also called country and western) is a popular music, music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and American southwest, the Southwest. First produced in the 1920s, country music is p ...

format, "Ocoee 93", on September 2, 2008. WSAA carried an adult hits format under the "

Jack FM Jack FM is a radio network brand that is licensed by Sparknet Communications, with the exception of the European Union where it is licensed by Oxis Media. It plays an adult hits radio format, format, in most cases not using disc jockey, DJs. F ...

" beginning in May 2009, after WPLZ (95.3 FM) switched from "Jack FM" to a news/talk format. On September 6, 2011, WSAA changed its format to EMF's

Air 1 Air1 is an American Christian radio network owned by the Educational Media Foundation (EMF), a non-profit Christian ministry. It primarily broadcasts contemporary worship music, and is a sister to the EMF's K-Love network. History On July 15, ...

Christian rock format; the "Jack FM" format moved to WQMT (93.9 FM).

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