WKDF
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| City | Nashville, Tennessee |
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| Broadcast area | Nashville, Tennessee |
| Branding | 103.3 Nash FM |
| Slogan | "Today's Country" "Nashville's Home for 103-minute Music Marathons" |
| Frequency | 103.3 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| First air date | April 18, 1962 (as WNFO-FM); January 1, 1967 (as WKDA-FM/WKDF) |
| Format | Country |
| ERP | 100,000 watts |
| HAAT | 376 meters |
| Class | C0 |
| Facility ID | 16896 |
| Former callsigns | WNFO-FM (1962-1965) WKDA-FM (1967-1976) |
| Owner |
Cumulus Media (Radio License Holding CBC, LLC) |
| Sister stations | WGFX, WQQK, WSM-FM, WWTN |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | www.nashfm1033.com |
WKDF (103.3 FM, "103.3 Nash FM") is a Country music radio station broadcasting on a frequency of 103.3 MHz from Nashville, Tennessee. WKDF is owned by Cumulus Media. A transmitter site is in Brentwood, Tennessee, and its studios are located in Nashville's Music Row district.
WKDF broadcasts one channel, HD 1, in the HD format, which is a simulcast of the analog (traditional) signal.
The first commercial (as opposed to experimental) station to occupy the 103.3 FM frequency in the Nashville market was WNFO-FM, founded in 1962 and operated by Hickory Broadcasting Corporation. Despite several FM stations already operating in Nashville at the time, receivers were not yet in widespread use, and the relatively few listeners were not enough to attract advertisers. It left the air sometime around 1965, with WKDA, then one of the two Top 40-formatted stations in the market, taking over and restarting it on January 1, 1967 as WKDA-FM. WKDA-FM/WKDF was located for many years with its sister station in the downtown Stahlman Building, where its large neon sign remains mounted. The station was later moved to Rutledge Hill on Second Avenue South on or around 1978, to a property once occupied by the home of Captain Thomas G. Ryman (of Ryman Auditorium fame). The Transmitter site was moved from Rutledge Hill to a Brentwood, Tennessee tower in 1982 while the studios remained on site. In 2012, the station was moved to 10 Music Circle East near Nashville's Music Row after the merger of Citadel and Cumulus Broadcasting.
In January 1970, WKDA-FM began playing album-oriented rock, aimed especially at Nashville's large college student population, first at night only, and, then, beginning in March concurrent with a format change of the AM to country, full-time, for about a year and a half. Afterward, in the daytime, the station employed a mix of rock and Top 40 music, while switching to hard and progressive rock at night, during most of the 1970s and early 1980s. As the FM format grew, it soon became the dominant station of the two, which eventually separated. For some years in the late 1970s and early 1980s, "KDF" (as it was popularly known after its callsign officially changed to WKDF in 1976) was the dominant station as determined by the number of listeners reported by Arbitron, in the Nashville market, due, again, to its vast popularity among younger listeners. The only true competition the station had in the rock market was the Vanderbilt University student station, WRVU, which played alternative and college forms of rock not considered commercially acceptable in that day and time (WRVU has since discontinued broadcasting on an analog radio signal, but is available over the Internet and on HD Radio).
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