WFSK 88.1. FM: The Home of Smooth Jazz and Smooth Grooves
WFSK 88.1 FM, the first African American FM radio station in Nashville, is an educational community- based radio station, owned and operated by Fisk University. Serving the public since 1973, 88.1 FM is home to 18 specialty programs. With a Smooth Jazz Smooth Groove music format, talk programs and cross - cultural programming, WFSK serves both the needs of Fisk University and the Nashville community at-large.
WFSK is an affiliate station of Public Radio International (PRI). The syndicated talk program “What’s the 411? With Sharon Kay” is hosted and broadcasted live from the studios of WFSK, twice weekly. 88.1 FM WFSK recently added The Bobby Jones Gospel Countdown to its Sunday morning lineup.
88.1 FM is a member of the Black College Radio Association, Intercollegiate Broadcasting System (IBS), and Tennessee Association of Broadcasters (TAB). In 2006 and 2007, 88.1 FM WFSK was awarded the “Best College Radio Station in Nashville” honor by the March of Dimes A.I.R. (Achievement in Radio) Awards Committee and “The Best HBCU Radio Station” by the Black Press Association in 2006.