WNOX (AM)
| City | Oak Ridge, Tennessee |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Knoxville Metropolitan Area |
| Branding | Q100.3 |
| Slogan | Today's Continuous Country |
| Frequency | 100.3 MHz |
| First air date | 1974 (as WOKI-FM) |
| Format | Country |
| ERP | 100,000 watts |
| HAAT | 618.2 meters (2,028 ft) |
| Class | C |
| Facility ID | 49923 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 36°11′54.00″N 84°13′52.00″W / 36.1983333°N 84.2311111°W |
| Callsign meaning | W CountrY Q |
| Former callsigns | WOKI-FM (1974-2005) WNOX (2005-2013) |
| Owner |
E.W. Scripps Company (Scripps Broadcasting Holdings LLC) |
| Sister stations | WKHT, WNOX, WWST |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | q100country.com |
WCYQ (100.3 FM) is a radio station in the Knoxville, Tennessee, area. The station broadcasts a country music format, which previously aired on 93.1 FM (now WNOX) until 2013.
WCYQ operates a 100,000-watt transmitter, located on Cross Mountain(elevation 3534 ft.) north of Briceville, Tennessee. Its signal can be received throughout East Tennessee as well as significant parts of southeastern Kentucky, and in small portions of Virginia, North Carolina, West Virginia and Georgia.
The former call sign WNOX was also the call letters of a co-owned AM station from the 1930s to 1988, and again from 1997 to 2005.
For years, the WNOX call letters belonged to the frequency AM 990. In November 1921, WNOX signed on the air as WNAV, the first radio station in Tennessee and one of the ten oldest in the country, and was licensed to broadcast at 833 kHz. In 1923, the station's initial owner, the First Baptist Church of Knoxville, sold it to the People's Telephone & Telegraph Company. Sterchi Brothers Furniture briefly owned the station before it was again sold to Scripps-Howard in 1935. The early WNAV studios were located in the St. James Hotel, which once stood near the head of Market Square. Within the span of its first 19 years, the station's call letters changed to WNOX, and the station frequency changed many times, eventually settling at AM 990 in March 1941.
After its purchase by Scripps-Howard in 1935, the station moved to the Andrew Johnson Hotel on Gay Street, with its main offices located on the hotel's 17th floor. The station's growing studio audiences began causing elevator traffic issues for the Andrew Johnson, however, and the hotel asked the station to move. WNOX relocated to a small tabernacle building at the north end of Gay Street, where it remained for several years.
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