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Coordinates: 36°02′31″N 86°59′31″W / 36.042°N 86.992°W / 36.042; -86.992
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WRFN-LP
Broadcast areaNashville, Tennessee
Frequency107.1 (MHz)
BrandingRadio Free Nashville
Programming
FormatFreeform
AffiliationsPacifica Radio Network
Ownership
OwnerRadio Free Nashville, Inc.
History
First air date
April 2005
Call sign meaning
Radio Free Nashville (used by WFSK-FM previously)
Technical information
Licensing authority
FCC
ClassL1
ERP7 watts
Translator(s)W279CH 103.7 Hermitage
Links
Public license information
LMS
Websitewww.radiofreenashville.org

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.[1]

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  1. ^ "Our History".
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36°02′31″N 86°59′31″W / 36.042°N 86.992°W / 36.042; -86.992