Numerous later sources incorrectly list the station's first license date as "November 3, 1921", which is actually exactly one year too early. This incorrect year apparently originated due to a typographical error in an article in a May 1962 issue of Broadcasting magazine ("Radio stations 40 or more years old in 1962" ("WNOX Knoxville, Tenn." entry), Broadcasting, May 14, 1962, page 134.) On November 3, 1937, the Knoxville News-Sentinel, which had purchased the station the previous year, stated WNOX was "celebrating its fifteenth birthday today", and that the station had received its first license, as WNAV, on November 3, 1922. ("WNOX Has 15th Birthday License is State's Oldest", Knoxville News-Sentinel, November 3, 1937, page 18.)
