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AM 950 Franklin?

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ncscradiogeek

Hey guys last week when I was up in Nashville me and my wife toured the town of Franklin as we may be moving there.
We saw a building for an AM 950 what can you guys tell me about that station?
I flipped past it and it sounded like it was running a Sat delivered format.
 
Morning news, noon news and long running "Trade Time". Rest of the day is still sat/local drops.

Friday nights still belong to local high school football, weekends to UT football and NASCAR, with some other local sports sprinkled in during the weekdays.

One of the last real "community" stations in the area with strong committment to local news and events. Tom Lawrence, Charles Dibrell, Darrell Williams and Jim Hayes are all still involved, although you don't hear Jim as much. A "Hometown Station" in a sea of corporate clones.
 
WAKM ("whack-em" ;D) has the English-language population of Williamson County that still listens to "local" AM radio all to themselves now, if there still is enough of a market for such a small niche. I'm sure that WAKM loved it when WIZO (now WHEW) sold to Spanish-language broadcasters and went all Spanish back in 1996. ;D

WAKM's studios are not that far from Cool Springs, if memory serves, which may mean that the property itself will soon be worth more than the station that occupies that piece of land!

They used to sponsor the Franklin Classic 5K/10K races on Labor Day, but even when they did, they had almost NO presence at the races, other than their name on the back of the race t-shirt. ::) I remember listening to WAKM on the way to the race one year, and hearing absolutely NOTHING about the Franklin Classic! ::)

But their coverage of the May 2010 floods was about the best of any that I could receive at the time, due to having no electricity at the time and being forced to listen to radio coverage for flood news.

Last I recall, their format was country. Just thought I'd throw that in there, since no one has mentioned it yet. ::)
 
To confirm, the WAKM building and transmitter site is on Mallory Station Road, just on the other side of the railroad tracks from Cool Springs.
 
RadioZack said:
To confirm, the WAKM building and transmitter site is on Mallory Station Road, just on the other side of the railroad tracks from Cool Springs.
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We who grew up in small towns know about "being on the wrong side of the tracks"... maybe they can afford to have their transmitter there for a long time.. if they are on the wrong side of the tracks. But then again, if it is Cool Springs that is on the wrong side... the cheap land... then the station really is on expensive land. ;D
 
For those of you old enough to remember, WAKM 950 was once co-owned by Singer-Songwriter Tom T. Hall and Nashville Agent Tandy Rice. They bought the station in 1981 with the callsign WTMT if I remember right. They owned it for just a couple of years.
 
(The Other) Big John said:
For those of you old enough to remember, WAKM 950 was once co-owned by Singer-Songwriter Tom T. Hall and Nashville Agent Tandy Rice. They bought the station in 1981 with the callsign WTMT if I remember right. They owned it for just a couple of years.
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And before that it was owned by Bill Ormes who had the call letters WAGG for his wife Aggie.
 
(The Other) Big John said:
They bought the station in 1981 with the callsign WTMT if I remember right.
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prior to WAKM, I believe the calls were WTJT (WTMT calls were on 620 in Louisville until 2006)
 
A correction concerning the call letters. It was WTJT, not WTMT. the "J" representing the third owner John D. Lentz.
 
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