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\n\tGarth Brooks<\/a> is buying the radio frequency of Nashville\u2019s longest-running independent radio station and plans to turn it into a country music channel. Lightning 100, which adheres to a AAA format and plays artists ranging from Tame Impala, Bleachers, and Fontaines D.C. to Noah Kahan, Kacey Musgraves, and the War on Drugs, entered into an agreement with Brooks\u2019 own Sevens Network, LLC, who will purchase the 101.1 frequency pending FCC approval.<\/p>\n \n\tLightning 100, which broadcasts as WRLT-FM, is set to move to 106.3 and 102.5HD3, once the deal is approved. For now, it will remain on the 100.1 frequency.<\/p>\n \n\tThis marks Brooks\u2019 latest foray into the country radio market. In 2023, he launched his Big615 channel<\/a> with free Internet radio provider TuneIn. That partnership ended in September. The country singer, who has famously resisted streaming his catalog online, previously tried to circumvent the streamers by founding his own digital music service, GhostTunes, in 2014. That shuttered in 2017, and Brooks entered into an exclusive streaming deal<\/a> with Amazon.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThis is an opportunity to bring the entire family of Country Music together in one spot\u2026the legends, the greats, and the future greats,\u201d Brooks said in a statement about the proposed purchase. \u201cNashville is being called \u2018The Newest City in America,\u2019 and we want to bring a new kind of communication, combining terrestrial and digital radio, built to grow with this city.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tIn a social media post, Lightning 100 celebrated the transition. \u201cBig news, Nashville!\u201d read a statement<\/a>. \u201cLightning 100 is turning the page, but the music we love isn\u2019t going where!\u201d <\/p>\n