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WSMV News4 Nashville history
WSMV News4 Nashville company history timeline
WSMV first signed on the air as WSM-TV on September 30, 1950, at 1:10 p.m.
The television station has been an NBC affiliate from its sign-on, although it also carried some programming from CBS, DuMont, and ABC. Its secondary affiliation with CBS ended in 1953, when WSIX-TV (channel 8, now WKRN-TV on channel 2) signed on as a primary CBS affiliate.
WSM-TV shared ABC programming with WSIX-TV for a year until WLAC-TV (channel 5, now WTVF) signed on in 1954 as the market's new primary CBS affiliate, leaving WSIX-TV to take the ABC affiliation.
In 1957, the station attempted to a build a larger tower in west Nashville, near Charlotte Avenue.
WSM-TV shared its broadcast facilities with non-commercial station WDCN-TV (channel 2, now WNPT on channel 8) beginning in 1962.
In 1963, National Life and Accident Insurance built new studios for WSM-AM-TV adjacent to the transmission tower on Knob Road.
Gaylord Entertainment Company purchased the remainder of WSM, Inc. nearly two years later, in 1983.
WSMV-TV was sold on June 8, 1989, to Cook Inlet Television Partners, an Alaska-based company which was a subsidiary of Cook Inlet Region, Inc., an Alaska Native Regional Corporation.
Cook Inlet sold WSMV on January 5, 1995, to the Meredith Corporation.
In early March 2009, it was announced that WSMV's master control operations would be hubbed at Meredith-owned sister station WGCL-TV in Atlanta.
The new hub operation launched in summer 2009.
On September 8, 2015, Media General announced that it would acquire Meredith for $2.4 billion, with the combined group to be renamed Meredith Media General.
On January 27, 2016, Nexstar Broadcasting Group announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire Media General.
On May 3, 2021, Gray Television announced its intent to purchase the Meredith Local Media division for $2.7 billion.
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