WVNA-FM
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WVNA-FM is a radio station
Radio station
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 licensed to Muscle Shoals, Alabama
Muscle Shoals, Alabama
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. The format is Mainstream Rock
Mainstream rock
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. On air, the station refers to itself as Rock 105.5, The Big Dog. WVNA-FM serves the Florence-Muscle Shoals Metropolitan Area. The station is owned by URBan Radio Broadcasting
Urban Radio Broadcasting
URBan Radio Broadcasting, LLC, is an American media company that specializes in radio stations. The markets where they own radio stations include Toledo, Ohio, Muscle Shoals, Alabama, Tupelo, Mississippi, Columbus, Mississippi, Meridian, Mississippi, and Alexandria, Louisiana...

 and is part of a six station cluster operated by URBan in North Alabama
North Alabama
North Alabama is a region of the U.S. state of Alabama, generally considered to include 12 counties: Cherokee, Colbert, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Marshall, Morgan, and Winston, with a combined population of 958,247, or 20.84% of the state's population as...

/Southern Tennessee
Tennessee
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The WVNA call letters stand for "(The) Voice of North Alabama".

Programming on the radio station includes Bob & Tom in the morning, local personality Ash mid-days, T.C. Kinkead afternoons and Alice Cooper
Nights with Alice Cooper
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 at night. Other personalities on the station include Dee Snider
Dee Snider
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, Bob Colburn
Rockline
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, Harlan, Bob O'Dell and Farley the Bear.

The station's Program and Music Director is T.C. Kinkead. Brian Rickman is the Operations Manager.

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