WSM-FM
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WSM-FM is a Nashville, Tennessee FM radio station. It began on an experimental license with callsign W47NV, and was the first commercial FM radio station to be granted an FCC license in the U.S.
This initial license was later divested; the current FM station (located on the dial at 95.5 MHz) dates only from the 1960s and its country format only from the 1980s. It is now owned by Cumulus Media, which also operates the sales department of WSM (AM), but (as of 2005) does not own it.
Throughout the years, WSM-FM went from being an easy-listening station called SM95 to a highly-competetive (yet usually #2) country station. Upon the arrival of a fourth country station in the market in 1999 (WKDF), WSM-FM fell to a distant third, and sometimes fourth, place. In September 2004, the station adopted a revised country format referred to as "The Wolf" in an attempt to again become competitive in Nashville's highly-competitive country radio market; early indications are that this is showing some success in improving Arbitron ratings, and the station is approaching the #1 spot usually held by WSIX radio.
External links
- Cumulus press release on WSM-FM acquisition (http://www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=CMLS&script=410&layout=-6&item_id=393952)