WSKZ is a radio station

Radio station

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 in Chattanooga, Tennessee

Tennessee

Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area...

. The station operates under a classic rock

Classic rock

Classic rock is a radio format which developed from the album-oriented rock format in the early 1980s. In the United States, the classic rock format features music ranging generally from the late 1960s to the late 1980s, primarily focusing on the hard rock genre that peaked in popularity in the...

 format and is branded as KZ-106. The station is one of four stations operating in the Chattanooga broadcast area by Cumulus Media

Cumulus Media

Cumulus Media, Inc. is the second largest Owner and Operator of AM and FM radio stations in the United States, behind Clear Channel Communications, operating 570 stations in 150 markets as of September 16, 2011. The company also owns Cumulus Media Networks...

.

Trivia

• The station is also an affiliate of the John Boy and Billy "Big Show"
  John Boy and Billy
  John Isley and Billy James, known as John Boy & Billy, named after "John-Boy Harris and brother Bross Harris", are American radio hosts based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Their comedic morning program The John Boy & Billy Big Show broadcasts from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m...
  
  , the nationally syndicated morning comedy
  Comedy
  Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...
  
   show.

• The station is also the areas home for Tennessee Volunteer football.

• The station is one of the few 100,000 watt radio stations in the Chattanooga market.

• Current on-air line up includes:

Scott Chase 6:00am – 11:00am,
Kelly McCoy 11:00am – 2:00pm,
Charlie Foxx 2:00pm – 7:00pm,
Jamie Roberts 7:00pm – 1:00am

• The station played Top 40 from 1978 until the late 1990s.

• Before becoming KZ106 in 1978, the station was owned by Ted Turner
  Ted Turner
  Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III is an American media mogul and philanthropist. As a businessman, he is known as founder of the cable news network CNN, the first dedicated 24-hour cable news channel. In addition, he founded WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television...
  
  , and played an easy listening
  Easy listening
  Easy listening is a broad style of popular music and radio format that emerged in the 1950s, evolving out of big band music, and related to MOR music as played on many AM radio stations. It encompasses the exotica, beautiful music, light music, lounge music, ambient music, and space age pop genres...
  
  format, under the call letters WYNQ, and was branded Wink-FM.

• The station used to be in Rome GA as WRGA-FM

External links

• KZ 106 official website