WRFN-LP

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{{Infobox radio station

| name = WRFN-LP

| logo =

| city = Pasquo, Tennessee

| area = Nashville, Tennessee

| branding = Radio Free Nashville

| airdate = April 2005

| frequency = 107.1 (MHz)

| translator = W279CH 103.7 Hermitage

| format = Freeform

| erp = 7 watts

| haat =

| class = L1

| owner = Radio Free Nashville, Inc.

| website = [http://www.radiofreenashville.org/ www.radiofreenashville.org]

| callsign_meaning = Radio Free Nashville (used by WFSK-FM previously)

| affiliations = Pacifica Radio Network

|licensing_authority = FCC

}}

WRFN-LP is a community LPFM non-commercial radio station in Nashville, Tennessee. It operates at a frequency of 107.1 MHz and is branded as Radio Free Nashville. The station features a mix of music, talk and public affairs programming, almost all with a decidedly liberal or leftist political perspective largely not found on other area media outlets (local or national).

The station went on the air in April 2005, with studios and transmitter located at the nearby community of Pasquo, Tennessee, 15 miles (24 km) west of downtown Nashville.

WRFN-LP was the seventh community radio "barnraising" of the Prometheus Radio Project.

In mid-2007, WRFN began simulcasting on Nashville's iQtv's second audio program (SAP).

On October 25, 2009, WRFN changed its frequency to 107.1 MHz from its previously assigned frequency of 98.9 MHz, which had also been occupied by WANT in nearby Lebanon, Tennessee.

A translator station, W279CH on 103.7 in Hermitage, Tennessee, signed-on in December 2014 to serve Nashville proper, expanding WRFN's over-the-air reach in the Nashville metro area.

The callsign was originally used by another Nashville station, Fisk University's WFSK-FM, from its beginning in 1973 until about 1983.{{Cite web|url=https://www.wfskfm.org/our-history.html|title=Our History}}

Media

  • [http://media.prometheusradio.org/audio/wrfn_radio_play.mp3 Audio of the first broadcast of WRFN] (in mp3 format)
  • [http://s2.radioboss.fm:8048/listen.pls?sid=1 Live audio stream] (in mp3 format)

See also

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