WKOS (104.9 FM), branded as "104.9 Nash Icon", is a radio station serving the Tri-Cities, Tennessee, area with country music. This station is under ownership of Cumulus Media.
History WGAT-FM began broadcasting on January 21, 1970, as the FM sister station of WGAT (1050 AM). It changed its call sign to WZXY on October 14, 1981, an album-oriented rock station branded "Y105". Sometime in the mid- to late-1980s, WZXY changed its to CHR/Top 40. The call sign was changed to WKOS on July 1, 1991. Through much of the 1990s and a large part of the 2000s, the format was oldies,Radio Station WKOS 104.9 FM Retrieved on 2009-03-26. and then adult hits. The station was called "The Peak" when it changed to hot adult contemporary.
On February 24, 2012, WKOS changed formats to country, branded as "Great Country 104.9".Great Country Comes To Kingsport On July 3, 2013, at 3:00 p.m. EDT, WKOS re-branded itself as "Nash FM 104.9".Cumulus'NashFM Expansion Continues On April 24, 2015, WKOS rebranded as "104.9 Nash Icon".WKOS Shifts From Nash to Nash Icon
Sports coverage In 2007, East Tennessee State University men's basketball moved its games from WJCW to WKOS. This marked the first time the team was heard on FM radio. This has since been moved to WXSM, a sister station.ETSU BASKETBALL MOVES TO WKOS RADIO Retrieved on 2009-03-26.
Pirate radio station "WKOS" in Maine In 1967, the phone hacker Captain Crunch created a radio station called WKOS [W-"chaos"], a pirate station in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine, but had to shut it down when a licensed radio station, WDME, objected.
References
External links WKOS official website