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WLNT-LP (96.1 FM) is a low-power FM radio station broadcasting from Loudon, Tennessee. As of 2011, its format is a 50/50 mix of modern and traditional country music. Licensed to Community Radio of Loudon County Inc.,〔(Rec Networks ) Retrieved 2011-10-07.〕 it serves Loudon County, Tennessee (including the cities of Loudon, Philadelphia and Lenoir City). The station is also audible in Roane, Monroe, Knox and Blount Counties. The station first began broadcasting in August 2002 and was originally owned by the Corporation For Radio Education, Inc. ==History== WLNT was founded by Richard "Chip" Lynn, a lifelong resident of Loudon County. Lynn began his radio career at WLOD (AM) 1140 kHz in Loudon in the spring of 1985. From 1987 to 1995, he worked for the father-son team of James C. and Randall W. Sliger (and family) in Athens, Tennessee. Primarily on-air at WJSQ and WLAR, Lynn also helped with the construction of Sliger-owned station WYGO (99.5 MHz FM), the purchase and reformatting of WCLE (AM) 1570 in Cleveland and the construction of its Calhoun, Tennessee counterpart WCLE-FM (104.1). From 1995 to 2003, Lynn worked in management at the network-operations department for Scripps-Howard Broadcasting at its Knoxville-based Home & Garden Television Network. He assisted the network when its programming temporarily originated from Atlanta, also creating backup facilities in Nashville. Lynn also assisted in moving and integrating the Food Network from New York to Knoxville, and with construction of the DIY and Fine Living Networks. While WLNT was operating, Lynn became frustrated with the corporate world; he left Scripps in July 2003 to pursue a career in local radio, devoting nearly 20 hours per day to the station. Lynn was aided in WLNT's construction, operation and upgrades by Jim McGhee, another Loudon County resident who had recently retired as engineer and program director at WBIR-TV (channel 10) in Knoxville. McGhee retired from WLNT and the broadcast industry in 2005. The call letters WLNT were obtained from the old AM 1140 station in Loudon. AM 1140 used the call letters WLNT until 1985, when Gene Chrusciel and Doyle Lowe formed Loudon Broadcasters and bought the station. It was originally constructed in late 1982 by Tellico Broadcasting Company. TBC was founded by Jim McGhee and his business partner Howard Oberholtzer (a nuclear engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory). The pair sold the station in 1985 so McGhee could return to television. As of 2011, in retirement McGhee still stays in contact with WLNT and assists with projects. He spends several months per year at his condominium in Florida with his hobbies, including satellite television, radio DXing and the internet. In fall 2003, WLNT began broadcasting Loudon Redskins football games with Kent Everett, Eric Mitchell and David "Top" Dukes. That year, two other stations (WDEH and WLIL) also carried Redskins games. In 2004, WLNT continued broadcasting Redskins football; WLIL no longer covered the games, since its sportscaster Russell Mayes left for a career in education. Mayes is (as of 2011) media instructor at Fulton High School in Knoxville, and operates WKCS FM (91.1) for the Knox County Schools. In 2005, WLNT was the only station to broadcast the Redskins and began using the slogan "There's only one place to hear the Redskins". The station also began covering Loudon Redskins basketball and baseball in 2003. WLNT has had the same call letters and format since its inception in August 2002, first broadcasting from a transmitter on Prospect Church Road. In December 2002, the station petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to relocate its transmitter about east-northeast to its present site on Matlock Ridge in Loudon. This move increased WLNT's coverage, since the Matlock Ridge site is line-of-sight to a large part of the area's population. WLNT utilizes studio/transmitter link WPWW-390 at 951.5 MHz and remote pickup unit WPVX-964 at 161.64, 161.67, and 161.70 MHz. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WLNT-LP」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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