![]() ![]() This was especially the case during the 1960s and 1970s. The WSM stations' close ties to Nashville's country music business has meant that the Knob Road facility and/or its personnel was, from time to time, used for the recording of network and syndicated programs featuring Nashville-based performers. In 1974, NL&AI reorganized itself as a holding company, NLT Corporation, with the WSM stations as a major subsidiary. This left WDCN as the sole occupant of the south Nashville building, where that station remained until 1976. In 1963, NL&AI built new studios for WSM-AM-FM-TV adjacent to the transmission tower on Knob Road. WSM-TV shared its broadcast facilities with new public station WDCN-TV channel 2 (now WNPT-TV channel 8) beginning in 1962. Afterward WSM-TV purchased its present property on Knob Road (farther west of the previous site) and built a tower there in a forested section away from potential damage to life and property. This caused the tower to collapse, which took the lives of several people. During the construction process, the new tower's supporting wires failed. In 1957, the station attempted to a build a larger tower in west Nashville near Charlotte Avenue. ![]() WSM-TV originally was headquartered in south Nashville at 15th Avenue South and Compton Avenue, near the present Belmont University. Before the advent of satellite delivery, network programming was delivered to WSM-TV by microwave transmission from WAVE in Louisville, Kentucky. ![]() WSM shared ABC programming with WSIX-TV for a year until WLAC-TV channel 5 (now WTVF-TV) signed on as the CBS primary affiliate, leaving WSIX-TV as the ABC affiliate. Affiliation with CBS ended in 1953 when WSIX-TV channel 8 (now WKRN-TV channel 2) signed on as a CBS primary affiliate. The television station has been an NBC affiliate from the very first day, though it also carried some programming from CBS, DuMont, and ABC. The stations took its callsign from their parent's slogan, " We Shield Millions." It was owned by the locally-based National Life and Accident Insurance Company along with WSM radio ( 650 AM & 95.5 FM) the AM station is renowned for broadcasts of the country music show "The Grand Ole Opry," which has been heard since 1925. It was Nashville's first television station and the second in Tennessee, behind WMCT (now WMC-TV, also an NBC affiliate) in Memphis. WSMV began broadcasting as WSM-TV on Septemat 1:10 p.m. However, through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display WSMV-TV's virtual channel as 4. In 2009, WSMV-TV turned off its analog transmitter and remained on its pre-transition channel 10. This move left the Nashville area with TeleFutura affiliate WLLC-LP channel 42 as its only Spanish-language outlet. ![]() WSMV management has indicated that programming on WSMV-DT2 will not be replaced, and that the subcarrier's spectrum will be used for non-OTA broadcast purposes. The subchannel began airing in the summer of 2006, and was discontinued on December 31, 2010. WSMV previously aired programming from the NBC-owned Spanish-language network, Telemundo, on its DT2 subcarrier, since the Nashville DMA lacks a Telemundo affiliate of its own.
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