WVNS-FM

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**WVNS-FM**

City of license	Pegram, Tennessee
Broadcast area	Nashville, Tennessee and Clarksville, Tennessee/Hopkinsville, Kentucky
Branding	V102.5
First air date	September 10, 1984
Frequency	102.5 (MHz)
Format	Hot Adult Contemporary
Power	100,000 watts
Class	C1
Callsign meaning	VeNuS (former nickname)
Owner	Cromwell Group
Website	www.1025venus.com

WVNS-FM is an FM radio station broadcasting at 102.5 MHz. It is licensed to the city of Pegram, Tennessee, but serves the Nashville and Clarksville/Hopkinsville markets. It is currently branded as V102.5 and owned by The Cromwell Group. It is jointly operated and marketed with 102.9 WBUZ "The Buzz", with which it shares management and a sales staff.

In 2005, when the station relaunched as Venus 102.5 FM, the station had to make a special request to obtain the WVNS-FM call letters. Per FCC regulations, they were required permission from WVNS-TV in Bluefield/Beckley, West Virginia, which they received. The "Venus" moniker lasted less than a year.

The prior call letters were WQZQ. From 1996 to 2005, the station broadcast a Top 40 format called 102.5 The Party. The station began its life as WDKN-FM in Dickson, Tennessee,to which it was originally lisenced and where it simulcast that small-town station's community-oritented format. When the station began to orient itself to the Nashville market its transmitter was moved to Bellsburg, Tennessee, on the Dickson County-Cheatham County line and hence closer to Nashville.

The station also broadcasts over an FM translator, W271AB 102.1FM, which covers western Nashville.