WGNS
| City | Murfreesboro, Tennessee |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area |
Rutherford County Middle Tennessee |
| Branding | Rutherford County’s Place To Talk |
| Slogan | Your Good Neighbor Station |
| Frequency | 1450 kHz |
| Repeater(s) | W263AI (100.5 FM) Murfreesboro W270AF (101.9 FM) Murfreesboro |
| First air date | December 31, 1946 |
| Format | News/Talk |
| Power | 1,000 Watts |
| Class | C |
| Callsign meaning | Good Neighbor Station |
| Affiliations | CBS Radio, MTSU Blue Raider Network |
| Owner | The Rutherford Group, Inc. |
| Sister stations | WETV-LP |
| Webcast |
WGNS Listen Live WGNS Bitcast |
| Website | WGNSradio.com |
WGNS is a radio station based in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, United States. The station operates at 1450 kHz on the AM dial. The call letters are an acronym representing the phrase, "Good Neighbor Station". The station covers Murfreesboro, Tennessee proper as well as the surrounding counties. WGNS also operates class A television station WETV-LP channel 11, which simulcasts the audio from WGNS and local talk programming. The station also has two FM translators at W263AI FM 100.5 and W270AF FM 101.9, which are also licensed to Murfreesboro.
WGNS was founded by Cecil Elrod, Jr. The station signed on the air at 10:00 p.m. Central time on the evening of December 31, 1946, with the first full day of broadcast taking place at WGNS on January 1, 1947. The first program broadcast on the station was an introductory program entitled This is WGNS, followed by a New Year’s program from the Mutual Broadcasting System. Their first sports program was the broadcast of the 1947 Cotton Bowl that originated from Dallas, Texas. Throughout its history, the station never changed its callsign or its frequency. WGNS has been carrying high school football and basketball games, as well as Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders sporting events, since 1947.
In 1981, WGNS began broadcasting Atlanta Braves baseball broadcasts provided by the Atlanta Braves Radio Network. Bart Walker purchased the station in 1984, and he has owned the station ever since.
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