WKOS

This station was WGAT-FM Mar. 13, 1979, WZXY on Oct. 14, 1981, and changed to its current call letters on July 1, 1991.[1] In 1967, the phone hacker Captain Crunch created a radio station called WKOS [W-"chaos"], a pirate station in nearby Dover-Foxcroft, but had to shut it down when a legitimate radio station, WDME, objected. In the early 1980s, WGAT-FM became WZXY, an AOR station under their nickname "The New Y105, FM Rock". But sometime in the mid to late 1980s, WZXY changed formats from AOR to a CHR/Top 40 format. Through much of the 1990s and a large part of the 2000s the format was an Oldies under their new call letter WKOS, the new slogan was "Good Times Great Oldies! Oldies 104.9, WKOS".[2] and then adult hits. The station was called "The Peak" when it changed to hot adult contemporary.

On February 24, 2012 WKOS changed their format to country, branded as "The New Great Country 104.9 WKOS".[3]

On July 3, 2013 at 3:00PM EDT WKOS re-branded itself as "The New Nash FM 104.9".[4]

And then on April 24, 2015 WKOS rebranded as "Nash Icon 104.9".[5]

In 2007, the East Tennessee State University men's basketball Team moved its games from WJCW to WKOS. This marked the first time the team was heard on FM radio. This has since been moved to AM 640 WXSM, a sister station.[6]

(WKOS's logo under previous "Nash FM" branding)

• WKOS official website
• WKOS in the FCC's FM station database
• WKOS on Radio-Locator
• WKOS in Nielsen Audio's FM station database
• A commercial for WZXY ("Y-105") from 1982
• One of the commercials for WZXY, as a Top 40 station