Nashville!
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Nashville! was a commercial radio channel on XM Satellite Radio. It was located on XM 57(previously 11) and lays a wide range of country music
hits from the early 1990s through today. The channel was programmed out of Cincinnati, Ohio
. Advertising sales are handled by Premiere Radio Networks
. It was programmed by Kent Terry.
On June 8, 2011, it was replaced by a simulcast of WSIX-FM
in Nashville, Tennessee
.
, 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!, only to be removed from the service again in August 2008.
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.
, 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 20, 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.
from the XM dial, which would keep syndicated hosts Big D and Bubba
and Blair Garner
off XM for another year. In 2009, the channel became a lot more open with its audience, adding MySpace and Facebook pages, and later a Twitter account. The Nashville program director and personalities actively communicate to listeners on these social networking services. The channel also introduced a feedback number for listeners to call.
In August 2009, the lineup was altered once again. This time, Premiere Radio's Big D and Bubba, and Blair Garner, were added to the channel in their live morning and overnight timeslots respectively. Drew Thomas and Tony Lama were added to mid-days, and morning team Bama, Rob & Heather were moved to afternoons. Evenings remained jockless.
In late September 2009, Sirius XM did not renew their shared agreement with Clear Channel over the Grand Ole Opry
broadcasts, and instead opted to keep the shows to themselves for delayed broadcasts on The Roadhouse
XM 10. The announcement was not a surprise, as Sirius XM had barred any promotion of the Opry on Nashville! since the programming merger in November 2008. The timeslot once occupied by the Saturday night Opry broadcasts has since been replaced by a new show.
On June 8, 2011, Clear Channel began once again, simulcasting WSIX-FM Nashville on Nashville's signal on XM 57. http://radioinsight.com/blog/headlines/33034/clear-channel-to-simulcast-fm-stations-on-xm/
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
hits from the early 1990s through today. The channel was programmed out of Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio. Cincinnati is the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located to north of the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border, near Indiana. The population within city limits is 296,943 according to the 2010 census, making it Ohio's...
. Advertising sales are handled by Premiere Radio Networks
Premiere Radio Networks
Premiere Networks is an American radio network. It is the largest syndication company in the United States based on popularity of programming...
. It was programmed by Kent Terry.
On June 8, 2011, it was replaced by a simulcast of WSIX-FM
WSIX-FM
WSIX-FM is an FM radio station broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee on a frequency of 97.9 MHz. It is owned by Clear Channel Communications...
in Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...
.
Programs/Personalities
- After Midnite with Blair GarnerBlair GarnerBlair Garner is an American radio personality. According to his After MidNite with Blair Garner show website, he purchased his first car at age 12. He is the host of the syndicated radio programs After MidNite with Blair Garner and The Blair Garner Show...
- The show now runs from midnight to 6 AM ET and is syndicated by Premiere Radio NetworksPremiere Radio NetworksPremiere Networks is an American radio network. It is the largest syndication company in the United States based on popularity of programming...
. - Big D and BubbaBig D and BubbaThe Big D and Bubba Show is a nationally syndicated radio show airing daily on over 50 FM radio stations. The show is syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks.-Early beginnings and self-syndication:...
- Heard mornings from 6-10 AM ET and is syndicated by Premiere Radio NetworksPremiere Radio NetworksPremiere Networks is an American radio network. It is the largest syndication company in the United States based on popularity of programming...
. - Tony Lama - Heard mornings from 10-12PM on XM 11. Tony is based out of Colorado Springs, ColoradoColorado Springs, ColoradoColorado Springs is a Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and most populous city of El Paso County, Colorado, United States. Colorado Springs is located in South-Central Colorado, in the southern portion of the state. It is situated on Fountain Creek and is located south of the Colorado...
. - Drew Thomas - Afternoons from 12-2PM ET.
- Bama, Rob, & Heather - Nashville!'s weekday afternoon show. The trio is based out of KASE-FMKASE-FMKASE-FM is an Austin, Texas radio station operating a Country format. It is licensed to Austin, Texas with an ERP of 100,000 Watts at 100.7 MHz from a transmitter site near West Lake Hills, TX, and is owned by Clear Channel Radio....
in Austin, TexasAustin, TexasAustin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...
, but produce a separate, more music intensive show for XM. The two shows will sometimes share content, such as guest interviews. This show was originally in mornings, and has since moved to 2-6 PM ET. - Nashville Saturday Night - Live request show on Saturdays at 8 PM Eastern.
- NEW! Discover and Uncover - New unsigned country music show, originating from Clear Channel Radio's iheartradioIheartradioiHeartRadio is a Clear Channel Radio network to aggregate local radio brands, personalities and on-demand content. It is best known as a mobile application...
digital network. Heard Sunday mornings at 6 AM Eastern. - Crook & Chase Countdown - Sunday mornings at 9 AM Eastern. This show replaced the FoxworthyJeff FoxworthyJeffrey Marshall "Jeff" Foxworthy is an American comedian, television and radio personality and author. He is a member of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, a comedy troupe which also comprises Larry the Cable Guy, Bill Engvall and Ron White. Known for his "you might be a redneck" one-liners, Foxworthy...
Countdown after it ceased broadcasting.
WSIX (2001-2003)
As part of the operational assistance agreement with Clear Channel CommunicationsClear Channel Communications
Clear Channel Communications, Inc. is an American media conglomerate company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. It was founded in 1972 by Lowry Mays and Red McCombs, and was taken private by Bain Capital LLC and Thomas H. Lee Partners LP in a leveraged buyout in 2008...
, XM agreed to simulcast some of their FM radio stations. WSIX was one of those channels, simulcasting the FM station from Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...
. 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
WSIX-FM
WSIX-FM is an FM radio station broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee on a frequency of 97.9 MHz. It is owned by Clear Channel Communications...
simulcast was returned to XM Satellite Radio (on XM 161
WSIX-FM
WSIX-FM is an FM radio station broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee on a frequency of 97.9 MHz. It is owned by Clear Channel Communications...
) as Clear Channel's 5th commercial music channel, separate from Nashville!, only to be removed from the service again in August 2008.
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 UnivisionUnivision
Univision is a Spanish-language television network in the United States. It has the largest audience of Spanish language television viewers according to Nielsen ratings. Randy Falco, COO, has been in charge of the company since the departure of Univision Communications president and CEO Joe Uva...
pulled their channels off the XM platform.
DirecTV
DirecTV is an American direct broadcast satellite service provider and broadcaster based in El Segundo, California. Its satellite service, launched on June 17, 1994, transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, Latin America, and the Anglophone Caribbean. ...
and AOL Radio
AOL Radio
AOL Radio powered by Slacker, , is an online radio service available only in the United States.- Roots :...
removed this channel on 4/17/06 in favor of XM's commercial free equivalent, US Country
US Country (XM)
US Country was a channel on XM Satellite Radio, channel 17, that played 80s and 90s Country.When Clear Channel Communications, which programs Nashville!, decided to add commercials to it in April 2006, XM retaliated by adding US Country and replacing Nashville! with this channel on AOL Radio, XM...
. 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.
Grand Ole Opry joins
In September 2007, XM Radio announced that the country music institution, the Grand Ole OpryGrand Ole Opry
The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly country music stage concert in Nashville, Tennessee, that has presented the biggest stars of that genre since 1925. It is also among the longest-running broadcasts in history since its beginnings as a one-hour radio "barn dance" on WSM-AM...
, would begin broadcasting live three times a week on Nashville!, with performance encores on America
America (XM)
America was a channel on the XM Satellite Radio network that specialized in playing classic country music. It was available on channel 10 on XM and channel 808 on DirecTV...
. The Opry broadcast for years on rival Sirius Satellite Radio
Sirius Satellite Radio
Sirius Satellite Radio is a satellite radio service operating in North America, owned by Sirius XM Radio.Headquartered in New York City, with smaller studios in Los Angeles and Memphis, Sirius was officially launched on July 1, 2002 and currently provides 69 streams of music and 65 streams of...
, which carried a simulcast of Opry flagship station, WSM
WSM (AM)
WSM is the callsign of a 50,000 watt AM radio station located in Nashville, Tennessee. Operating at 650 kHz, its clear channel signal can reach much of North America and various countries, especially late at night...
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 20, 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.
Additional programming
In August 2008, following suit to sister station KISS-XM, Nashville! added new personalities to the lineup. The jocks were rather scarce, and had longer shifts. Bama & Rob started in mornings, with Cindy Spicer in afternoons. These jock shifts were, and remain voice-tracked. Coincidentally, this same month contained the departure of WSIX-FMWSIX-FM
WSIX-FM is an FM radio station broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee on a frequency of 97.9 MHz. It is owned by Clear Channel Communications...
from the XM dial, which would keep syndicated hosts Big D and Bubba
Big D and Bubba
The Big D and Bubba Show is a nationally syndicated radio show airing daily on over 50 FM radio stations. The show is syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks.-Early beginnings and self-syndication:...
and Blair Garner
Blair Garner
Blair Garner is an American radio personality. According to his After MidNite with Blair Garner show website, he purchased his first car at age 12. He is the host of the syndicated radio programs After MidNite with Blair Garner and The Blair Garner Show...
off XM for another year. In 2009, the channel became a lot more open with its audience, adding MySpace and Facebook pages, and later a Twitter account. The Nashville program director and personalities actively communicate to listeners on these social networking services. The channel also introduced a feedback number for listeners to call.
In August 2009, the lineup was altered once again. This time, Premiere Radio's Big D and Bubba, and Blair Garner, were added to the channel in their live morning and overnight timeslots respectively. Drew Thomas and Tony Lama were added to mid-days, and morning team Bama, Rob & Heather were moved to afternoons. Evenings remained jockless.
In late September 2009, Sirius XM did not renew their shared agreement with Clear Channel over the Grand Ole Opry
Grand Ole Opry
The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly country music stage concert in Nashville, Tennessee, that has presented the biggest stars of that genre since 1925. It is also among the longest-running broadcasts in history since its beginnings as a one-hour radio "barn dance" on WSM-AM...
broadcasts, and instead opted to keep the shows to themselves for delayed broadcasts on The Roadhouse
The Roadhouse
The Roadhouse was a Classic Country radio station on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 62, XM Satellite Radio channel 10 and DISH Network channel 6062...
XM 10. The announcement was not a surprise, as Sirius XM had barred any promotion of the Opry on Nashville! since the programming merger in November 2008. The timeslot once occupied by the Saturday night Opry broadcasts has since been replaced by a new show.
On June 8, 2011, Clear Channel began once again, simulcasting WSIX-FM Nashville on Nashville's signal on XM 57. http://radioinsight.com/blog/headlines/33034/clear-channel-to-simulcast-fm-stations-on-xm/
External links
- http://www.facebook.com/nashvillexm11Nashville! FacebookFacebookFacebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
] - Nashville! on XMRadio.com