Where do we get information regarding WSMV-TV, NBC affiliate television station serving the Nashville, Tennessee area?

WSMV-TV, virtual channel 4, is the NBC-affiliated television station 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 was broadcast on analog channel 4. Contents [show] [edit]History [edit]Early years 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, also an NBC affiliate) 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," which has been heard since 1925. The stations took its callsign from their parent's slogan, "We Shield Millions." The television station has been an NBC affiliate from the very first day, though it also carried some programming from CBS, DuMont, and ABC. Affiliation with CBS ended in 1953 when WSIX-TV channel 8 (now WKRN-TV channel 2) signed on as a CBS primary affiliate. WSM shared ABC programming with WSIX-TV for a year until WLAC-TV channel 5 (now WTVF-TV) signed on as the CBS primary affiliate, leaving WSIX-TV as the ABC affiliate. Before the advent of satellite delivery, network programming was delivered to WSM-TV by microwave transmission from WAVE in Louisville, Kentucky. [edit]Growth, 1960s and 1970s WSM-TV originally was headquartered in south Nashville at 15th Avenue South and Compton Avenue, near the present Belmont University. In 1957, the station attempted to a build a larger tower in west Nashville near Charlotte Avenue. During the construction process, the new tower's supporting wires failed. This caused the tower to collapse, which took the lives of several people. Afterward WSM-TV purchased its present property on Knob Road (farther west of the previous site) and built a tower there in a forested section away from potential damage to life and property. WSM-TV shared its broadcast facilities with new public station WDCN-TV channel 2 (now WNPT-TV channel 8) beginning in 1962. In 1963, NL&AI built new studios for WSM-AM-FM-TV adjacent to the transmission tower on Knob Road. This left WDCN as the sole occupant of the south Nashville building, where that station remained until 1976. In 1974, NL&AI reorganized itself as a holding company, NLT Corporation, with the WSM stations as a major subsidiary. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSMV-TV