Does anyone know anything about a WWCR at 8207 "Concrod" Road in Brentwood? There is a listing for WWCR at that address in both the white and yellow pages (in the business section of the yellow pages), but no such listing appears in the yellow book. Obviously, the listing should be Concord Road, but it was listed in there one year as a typo, and has been repeated that way for several years now, ever since. At first, I thought it might be the address of a transmitter for WWCR, since that address is also near the WSM Blaw-Knox tower, but WWCR does not have any transmitters in that area that I am aware of. Furthermore, on further research, I found that 8207 Concord Road is also the address of the Brentwood YMCA! (This is the Brentwood YMCA, not the Maryland Farms YMCA, which is also in Brentwood!) So my best guess is that this is some type of obsolete listing, since several other obsolete listings for radio stations also appear in the phone book. Some of these stations have not had these names, or formats, for years now! Why doesn't the phone company ever update their information, and why doesn't anyone ever alert the phone company that their information is out of date? ???
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firepoint525 said:
WWCR is a shortwave station. It's co-owned with WNQM (AM 1300) and is located (studios and transmitters) at the AM 1300 transmitter site on Ashland City Highway about a mile west of Briley Parkway. This time of year with the foliage, you probably can't see the antennas from the highway, but wait 6 months and they're visible.
I've no idea why they'd have a listing in Brentwood. Maybe a sales office? (you have to drive through a poorly-maintained junkyard to get to their Ashland City Highway facility & maybe they were embarrassed to send their clients through that?!) Or they did a remote broadcast from down there & took out a phone line for that reason & forgot to have it unlisted?
Another shortwave station, KNLS, also had an office (and in their case, studio) in Brentwood. KNLS's transmitter is a lot further away than Ashland City Highway though. (in fact, their transmitters are in Alaska!)
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Evangelist
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KNLS and its parent company still have headquarters and studios in Cool Springs. All its programming is produced in-house there.
Dunno why WWCR would have the YMCA address. Of course, as has been said, the phone company doesn't update that information very often. I knew a man whose name and office number were listed in the business section years after he moved away and even after he had died.
Dunno why WWCR would have the YMCA address. Of course, as has been said, the phone company doesn't update that information very often. I knew a man whose name and office number were listed in the business section years after he moved away and even after he had died.
I once worked @ WWCR. It's located off Ashland City Highway, not in Brentwood. The antenna(s) that can be seen from the highway are the 5 tower array of WNQM-AM, WWCR's sister station @ 1300 on the AM dial. The actual antennas for WWCR are many wires streched from several telephone poles, unless its changed from when I worked there.
firepoint525 said:
Ma Bell is reluctant to update: the WLAC-AM newsroom gets at least 10 calls a day for channel 5.
Ask directory assistance for the number for "channel 5"...and they still have WLAC-TV listed...and
cross-reference WLAC. I've notified Ma Bell...and WTVF...nothing.
BTW...WLAC-TV changed calls to WTVF in 1975.
wwcr was in Brentwood on 560 biff collie was one of the owners
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romer979fm said:
Ah yes, the Channel 5 calls. We've both taken our share of those. One of my favorites was the man who, upon being told that Channel 5 was WTVF and it and WLAC were two separate entities, asked if I couldn't "just give a message to Larry Brinton since you're close by." Another was the man from Smyrna who called about a story he saw with a Channel 5 crew. I told him that Channel 5 was WTVF and had been since the 1970s. He replied, "Well, didn't nobody tell me."
The last calls I remember for 560(before WNSR) were WYOR, when the crooked Dr. Oni was owner. WWCR had to be before those!
oldies5161 said:
From http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=41062&Callsign=WNSR:
WNSR 08/10/1998
WYOR 05/22/1987
WWCR 03/26/1985
WTBN 06/15/1981
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NashRadio
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BTW
560 almost got the call letters WHEW from (then) 1380, between WYOR And WNSR.
560 almost got the call letters WHEW from (then) 1380, between WYOR And WNSR.
560 WYOR was an awesome blues station before the switch to sports talk and ESPN affiliate.
1300AM, that once was the station full screaming "six-ah-six-ah-six-ah sign of the beast" nights and weekends.
1300AM, that once was the station full screaming "six-ah-six-ah-six-ah sign of the beast" nights and weekends.
Okay, it's all starting to make sense to me now. So that little station that used to broadcast from Brentwood at AM 560 used to have the call letters WWCR back in the '80s? So this was well before WWCR shortwave came on the air in 1989. Obviously, the WWCR calls in Brentwood did not stand for Worldwide Christian Radio, because they did not represent "worldwide" anything! ;D That means that the listing I saw in the white/yellow pages is at least 20 years out of date! 
I have only lived here since 1992, so I would not have known about anything I just wrote about in the first paragraph above. But I remember when that station was WYOR, and broadcasting from out in the middle of nowhere near Brentwood. I remember that to get to that station required a drive down Wilson Pike through those two narrow one-lane railroad tunnels that existed down that way back then. Those are gone now!
I have only lived here since 1992, so I would not have known about anything I just wrote about in the first paragraph above. But I remember when that station was WYOR, and broadcasting from out in the middle of nowhere near Brentwood. I remember that to get to that station required a drive down Wilson Pike through those two narrow one-lane railroad tunnels that existed down that way back then. Those are gone now!
I remember the station being in the middle of a field off Highway 96 E, about 5 miles out Franklin. They didnt have a toilet!! LOL
Tibbs, if WYOR had some air checks it would be worth a listen. IIRC around 1992 they were live and local jocks. One Saturday night jock sounded like a carnival barker, Hoss Allen and a preacher rolled into one voice. WYOR played Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, more rocking and heavy guitar blues style than today's WVOL Saturday programming (which is also good, thanks Mr. H).
Tibbs2 said:
you are correct sir: I remember one recorded voice on-air...Jessie Lange (formerly KDF)...
and instead of jingles...each break transition back to music was a whispering male voice repeating "CAR56...CAR56..CAR56...CAR 56..."
also...IIRC, the studios were located briefly at 8th and Division...in that two-story building that turned into an adult video place before
being torn down for new high-rise condos. I actually shot a commercial there for Viacom back in the early 90's. lots of blurring and pixellating!
where do you shop now, Tibbs? ;D
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Jesse Lange was actually live in the mornings for a while on WWCR 560 "Car Radio." I did morning sports there in 1985. The studio was located on Wilson Pike. All the other jocks were recorded.
romer979fm said:
CR (aka hallowed alias TV star)
We now know why they went out of bidness. Care to post the artistic piece online? As for the last question ... believe it or not, I never
went down to any of those places when I was down there. How insane was that??? IF I had seen that Viacom commercial and had a few
bottles of Arbor Mist, then the story might have been different.
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