City Nashville, Tennessee Last air date 1951 HAAT 878 feet | First air date March 1, 1941 Language(s) English | |
Power 20,000 watts (W47NV)
66,000 watts (on 103.3 in 1950) | ||
WSM-FM was a radio station in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, from 1941 to 1951.
The National Life and Accident Insurance Company (NL&AI), owners of WSM, became the first commercial broadcaster in the U.S. to receive an FM license from the Federal Communications Commission in 1941. Originally known as W47NV (on 44.7 MHz, before becoming WSM-FM & switching to 100.1 & later 103.3 MHz by 1948), the station operated for about 10 years, until NL&AI realized that few area households had FM radio receivers and thus commercial potential was lacking, unlike the company's television station, WSM-TV (now WSMV-TV). NL&AI shut down WSM-FM in 1951 and returned the license to the FCC.
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