Everything about Nashville totally explained
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.
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!.
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's a commercial radio station. For a short period of time, Nashville! didn't 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.
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. 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.
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