The voice that launched hundreds: Remembering Trevecca’s WNAZ
Parker Henningsen
Sports Editor and Chief Photographer
Long before podcasts and playlists filled the airwaves, a small 10-watt signal from the basement of Trevecca’s Fine Arts Building began carrying a new kind of voice across Nashville.
That voice belonged to WNAZ, Trevecca’s student-run radio station that shaped decades of broadcasters, storytellers, and communicators. For more than 40 years, WNAZ wasn’t just a station, it was a classroom, a community, and a launchpad for hundreds of students who learned the power of sound, storytelling, and connection.
“It started with a handful of dreamers,” said David Deese, a longtime Trevecca professor who helped run and later manage the station. “When I arrived as a student in 1965, there wasn’t a radio station yet. But by my soph...