The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly country music radio program and concert broadcast live on WSM radio in Nashville, Tennessee, every Friday and Saturday night, as well as Tuesdays and Thursdays from March through December. It is the oldest continuous radio program in the United States, having been broadcast on WSM since October 5, 1925.
The Opry can also be heard live on Nashville! (XM Satellite Radio channel 11), with encore broadcasts on The Roadh...
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The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly country music radio program and concert broadcast live on WSM radio in Nashville, Tennessee, every Friday and Saturday night, as well as Tuesdays and Thursdays from March through December. It is the oldest continuous radio program in the United States, having been broadcast on WSM since October 5, 1925.
The Opry can also be heard live on Nashville! (XM Satellite Radio channel 11), with encore broadcasts on The Roadhouse (XM channel 10, Sirius channel 62). An edited version of the program is televised on Great American Country network as Opry Live on Saturdays, and a condensed radio program, America's Opry Weekend, is syndicated to stations around America.
The Grand Ole Opry started out as the WSM Barn Dance in the new fifth-floor radio station studio of the National Life & Accident Insurance Company in downtown Nashville on November 28, 1925. On October 18, 1925, management began a program featuring "Dr. Humphrey Bate and his string quartet of old-time...
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