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A Good Neighbor Is Born (MURFREESBORO) As the New Year of 1947 approached, rural Rutherford County had a dramatically different feel than that of today. Approximately 8,000 persons populated the entire county. It was a big thing for the county to get its first radio station! Word is that on the night of December 31, 1946, throughout the county people were tuning their radio dials. At 10:00 o'clock the static suddenly vanished and a strong new signal appeared. WGNS rang in the New Year of 1947. ...

WGNS Celebrates 74th Anniversary! Dec 30, 2020 at 06:16 am by WGNS (Photo L-R) Floyd Leonard, Carl Tipton, John Hood, George McCormick, Ashby Cotter, and Jerry "Pee Wee" Brown. (MURFREESBORO) Murfreesboro’s new radio station WGNS, operating at 1450 on the dial goes into operation tonight with a special local program and a New Year’s program via the Mutual Broadcasting System,  it was announced today by Cecil Elrod, Jr. general manager and  Bill Pepper, station manager. One of Murfreesboro's first Good Neighbors, John Hood, will join Bart on the radio from 8:10-9:...