Nash Icon

Nash FM is a media brand and network owned by Cumulus Media the United States. The brand serves as a platform for the Country format and offers two different products: Nash FM, airing current hits, and Nash Icons, airing an adult-contemporary-focused playlist of more established artists. Its name comes from Nashville, Tennessee, the center of the commercial country music industry in the United States, which in turn was named for colonial-era politician and Continental Army General Francis Nash.

Nash FM is, as of 2014, used on FM radio stations carrying country music (typically hot country) formats owned by Cumulus, and is the primary brand. Nash FM stations, since March 2015, have included in their rotations a blend of country and acoustic-leaning pop music.

The first station to become Nash FM was 94.7 at Newark, New Jersey in the New York City area on January 21, 2013.

Syndicated programming common to stations using the brand includes America's Morning Show with Ty Bentley, Nash Nights Live with Shawn Parr and The Blair Garner Show. National news is provided through an agreement with CNN.

In May 2014, Cumulus Media announced a spin-off of the Nash brand known as Nash Icon (previously announced as Nash Icons). The Nash Icon brand encompasses radio stations, content, and events oriented towards the "biggest country artists of the last two decades, who are still recording and touring but not getting enough exposure today"; Cumulus Media CEO Lew Dickey felt that there was not yet a "middle ground" between modern and classic country similarly to that of the Adult contemporary format (which lies between Contemporary hit radio and classic hits). The first Nash Icon stations were launched at 12:00 p.m. ET on August 15, 2014 with the flips of W255CJ in Atlanta and WZAT in Savannah, Georgia, followed by a number of other Cumulus stations throughout the day. In January 2015, WestwoodOne began to syndicate Nash Icon to non-Cumulus stations.

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