WSMV-TV is the NBC television affiliate serving the Nashville, Tennessee area. It broadcasts its digital signal on VHF channel 10. Its transmitter and tower are located adjacent to its studios on Knob Road in west Nashville, south of Charlotte Pike. Prior to the government-mandated conversion to a digital signal, WSMV broadcast on analog channel 4.
WSMV also airs programming from the NBC-owned Spanish-language network, Telemundo, on its DT2 subca...
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WSMV-TV is the NBC television affiliate serving the Nashville, Tennessee area. It broadcasts its digital signal on VHF channel 10. Its transmitter and tower are located adjacent to its studios on Knob Road in west Nashville, south of Charlotte Pike. Prior to the government-mandated conversion to a digital signal, WSMV broadcast on analog channel 4.
WSMV also airs programming from the NBC-owned Spanish-language network, Telemundo, on its DT2 subcarrier, since the Nashville DMA lacks a Telemundo affiliate of its own. The subchannel began airing in the summer of 2006.
WSMV began broadcasting as WSM-TV on September 30, 1950 at 1:10 p.m. It was Nashville's first television station and the second in Tennessee, behind WMCT (now WMC-TV, coincidentally an NBC affiliate also) in Memphis. 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,"...
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