WAMB

WAMB (1200 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Country music format to the Nashville, Tennessee, USA area. The station is currently owned by Great Southern Broadcasting Company rebroadcasting 98.9 WANT from Lebanon. In previous years, the station has also broadcast on the frequencies of 1190 and 1160 kHz. The station is heard in Donelson via 99.3 FM and translator W257AR.

History

WAMB was the brainchild of longtime Nashville broadcaster Bill Barry. Barry realized in the late 1960s that the switch of most popular radio stations to the rock music format was alienating many older listeners, a large segment of whom were nostalgic for the big band sound of 1930s and 1940s popular music and a station which would play it. In December 1968, Barry started such a station, licensed to the Nashville suburb of Donelson. Calling the format "The Music of Your Life", it was a pioneer of this format, which was eventually franchised and which at one point numbered hundreds of such stations throughout North America. Today, the format is heard on approximately 175 stations.