WNFN

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WNFN
City of license	Belle Meade, Tennessee
Broadcast area	Nashville, Tennessee
Branding	ESPN 106.7 The Fan
Slogan	Nashville's Only 24/7 Sports FM
First air date	September 22, 1995
Frequency	106.7 (MHz)
Format	Sports Talk
Power	1,100 watts
Class	A
Callsign meaning	W-Nashville's FaN
Owner	Cumulus Media
Website	www.1067thefan.com

WNFN is an FM radio station broadcasting in the Nashville, Tennessee market on a frequency of 106.7 mHz. It is Nashville's primary ESPN Radio affiliate and is branded as ESPN 106.7 The Fan.

Techncially licensed to the affluent Nashville suburb of Belle Meade, WNFN was formerly operated under the callsign of WNPL ("The Planet"), and had previously been marketed as a "women's station" and later as a rap music station, Blazin' 106.7. The station's original construction permit listed Mt. Juliet, Tennessee as the city of license, but this was changed amid concerns of interference with radio communications at Nashville International Airport.

The current all-sports format was adopted on December 23, 2004, in part as a way of splitting the sports shows then broadcast on WWTN away from the political talk shows that it otherwise broadcasts on the premise that the overlap in listenership between the two formats is minimal, and the callsign change soon followed. The station has marketed itself as "Nashville's only all-sports FM" and "Nashville's Sports Leader".

The once-popular SportsNight afternoon drive-time talk show was briefly simulcast on both WWTN and WNPL/WNFN before being relegated to WNPL/WNFN alone in early 2005. Due in part to the lower power of WNFN and in part to the previous departure of popular host George Plaster to competitor WGFX, SportsNight (hosted by Blake Fulton, Joe Biddle and, for around two years, Pete Weber) fell into a precipitous ratings decline. Both it and the mid-day local talk show Sports Brunch (hosted by John Dwyer and Bryan Mullen) were discontinued in March 2006. SportsNight would eventually be replaced by The Sports Guys (which began in July 2006) featuring longtime Nashville sportscaster Bob Bell, former Middle Tennessee State University head football coach Boots Donnelly and Nashville newcomer Jonathan Shaffer. Donnelly left the show in February 2007, and was replaced by former Tennessee Titans President Jeff Diamond. Otherwise, the station broadcasts primarily programming from ESPN Radio and selected major sporting events.

In 2006, WNFN became the flagship station of the Middle Tennessee State University athletic department.

[edit] See also

• List of Nashville media

[edit] External links

• 106.7 The Fan official site
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WNFN

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