Cromwell Radio Group is a privately held radio broadcasting company based in Nashville, Tennessee.
They currently own and operate 32 stations: Cromwell Radio Group was founded in 1969 when Bayard H. "Bud" Walters (still company president today) applied to the Federal Communications Commission for permit to construct WKCM, a country-formatted AM station in Hawesville, Kentucky.
That station, which went on the air in November 1972, is still owned by Cromwell today.
[1] In 1990 Cromwell expanded into Tennessee with the acquisitions of WQZQ-FM (now WPRT-FM) & WYCQ-FM (now WBUZ), both located in Nashville, Tennessee.
At this same time, Cromwell also relocated its corporate headquarters from Hawesville, Kentucky to Nashville, Tennessee.