WDVX is a listener-supported community radio station, an activity of the Cumberland Communities Communications Corp, a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization. WDVX is not affiliated with any college, university, religious or political organizational.
WDVX plays Bluegrass, Americana, Classic Country, Alternative Country, Western Swing, Blues, Old Time and Traditional Mountain Music, Bluegrass Gospel, Celtic and Folk. Then, we throw in a little roots music from other parts of the world, as well as some good old rock-and-roll and the latest releases in Americana music. WDVX offers our listeners a variety of specialty shows featuring music you can't hear anywhere else.
WDVX also provides local and regional musicians an outlet for their talents. Weekdays at noon WDVX broadcasts live performances from our studios in downtown Knoxville.
WDVX has been featured in newspaper articles in The Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Boston Globe, Metro Pulse and Knoxville News-Sentinel, as well as Totally Adult Magazine, No Depression, and on national television on PBS and ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. WDVX has also been featured on local television stations WBIR-TV and WVLT's Tennessee Traveler, along with many other publications, websites and television shows.
WDVX is proud to be named the Bluegrass Station of the Year in 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 at the Annual Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music Association (SPBGMA) Awards. Our own Freddy Smith & Alex Leach have both been presented awards for Bluegrass DJ of the Year.
WDVX operates on 89.9 MHz by the authority of the Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, with an effective radiated power of 200 watts from high atop Cross Mountain in Campbell County. WDVX programming is relayed through studio-to-transmitter microwave link WPNJ-9-2-1. We also broadcast in Knoxville at 102.9 FM from our translator at W275AD.