Garth Brooks' Sevens Network Agrees to Buy Lightning 100's 100.1 FM Frequency

Garth Brooks' Sevens Network has agreed to buy the 100.1 FM radio frequency, according to an announcement from Tuned In Broadcasting, Inc., which operates Lightning 100. The sale still needs approval from the Federal Communications Commission, the US agency that licenses radio stations. Billboard reported the agreement on 11 November 2026.

Once the approval comes through and the sale closes, 100.1 FM will focus on country music under Sevens Network ownership. The station's current format will not stay on that frequency. Instead, it will move to Cromwell Media's 106.3 FM and to 102.5 FM HD3, a secondary channel carried on a station's digital signal.

Until then, nothing changes on the dial. Lightning 100 will keep broadcasting on 100.1 FM until the FCC approval and the transition are both complete.

Lightning 100 has been locally owned and operated for 36 years. The station also founded Live on the Green, an outdoor concert series in Nashville that launched in 2009. Lightning 100 has been a fixture of local radio and local live music for more than three decades, so the handover of its home frequency is a notable change for listeners who have followed it that long.

For listeners, the immediate question is where the station will be found once the move is done. The answer, according to the announcement, is 106.3 FM and 102.5 FM HD3. Anyone who tunes in on 100.1 FM after the sale closes should expect a country format.

No completion date for the FCC process has been given in the announcement, so the timing of the change is not yet set.