Nashville!

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Nashville!
Broadcast area	United States
Branding	Nashville! cm
Slogan	Today's country, and yesterday's favorites
Frequency	XM 11
First air date	2001-09-25
Format	Country music
Class	Satellite Radio Station
Owner	Clear Channel Communications
Sister stations	XM21, XM22, XM24, XM152, XM154, XM157, XM158, XM165
Website	Nashville!

Nashville! is a commercial radio channel on XM Satellite Radio. It is located on XM11 and plays a wide range of country music hits from the early 90s through today. The channel is programmed out of Nashville, Tennessee by Larry Morgan. Advertising sales are handled by Premiere Radio Networks.

Contents 1 WSIX (2001-2003) 2 Nashville! (2003- ) 2.1 Grand Ole Opry joins 3 References 4 Programs 5 External links

[edit] WSIX (2001-2003)

As part of the operational assistance agreement with Clear Channel Communications, XM agreed to simulcast some of their FM radio stations. WSIX was one of those channels, simulcasting the FM station from Nashville, Tennessee. At the time, channel 11 was titled WSIX, after the station's call letters. Due to low subscription count at the time, the audience didn't concern themselves with the Nashville locality of the station. In 2004, XM decided to go commercial free, and WSIX was taken off the XM platform prior to that. It was replaced with a new XM exclusive channel called Nashville!, with a similar format.

In May 2006, the WSIX simulcast was returned to XM Satellite Radio (on XM 161) as Clear Channel's 5th commercial music channel, separate from Nashville!.

[edit] Nashville! (2003- )

On 2003-12-01, the WSIX simulcast ended. The station was now on autopilot 24/7 with no jocks. One month later, the station dropped all commercial advertising, much against Clear Channel's wishes. Clear Channel stuck around while companies like Univision pulled their channels off the XM platform.

In March 2006, according to a 10-k filing, XM Satellite Radio mentioned that Clear Channel programmed music on XM would begin carrying commercials, including Nashville!. This has been done to fulfill an arbitration settlement between XM and Clear Channel. In response to this, XM Canada, DirecTV and AOL Radio removed this channel on 4/17/06 in favor of XM's commercial free equivalent, US Country. Nashville! now displays a "cm" next to its name on the XM unit's pad data to indicate that it is a commercial radio station. For a short period of time, Nashville! did not display song information on the XM unit's pad. Originally, Clear Channel opted to have static pad data on all of its channels, but due to complaints they acquired the hardware to properly display individual track information on the units.

[edit] Grand Ole Opry joins

In September 2007, XM Radio announced that the country music institution, the Grand Ole Opry, would begin broadcasting live three times a week on Nashville!, with performance encores on America^[1]. The Opry broadcast for years on rival Sirius Satellite Radio, which carried a simulcast of Opry flagship station, WSM in Nashville. Sirius' broadcast ended in September 2006 without warning, and Sirius claimed that the decision to drop the station and the Grand Ole Opry was mutual.

On October 20th, Nashville! broadcast its first Grand Ole Opry concert, which was also on the Opry's 82nd birthday celebration. The concerts air every Tuesday, Friday and Saturday night.

[edit] References

[edit] Programs

• Grand Ole Opry - Every week, Nashville! broadcasts live performances from the Opry in Nashville, Tennessee, simulcasting 650 WSM in Nashville. The performances air Fridays at 9PM ET, Saturdays at 7:30 & 10:30 PM ET, and Tuesdays at 8PM ET.
• Inside the Opry Circle"- Teea Goans hosts a live half-hour show Saturday nights from 9 to 9:30 Central between early and late Grand Ole Opry performances. The show is also simulcasted from WSM 650 AM or www.wsmonline.com.

[edit] External links

• Nashville!

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