NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - The story of WSM-TV’s early beginnings originates on the highest hilltop near Belmont University.

An enormous steel broadcast tower stretching hundreds of feet in the air, together with the adjacent television studio, would be the source of Nashville’s first television broadcast, beginning September 30, 1950.

“The whole story of Channel 4 is fascinating,” said Kyle Cantrell, who began as a radio broadcaster for WSM in 1982 and serves as an amateur broadcast historian.

“Almost as soon as World War 2 was over, discussion began about ‘Should we get into this television thing??’” Cantrell said.

WSM , the radio juggernaut that made country music a genre beginning in 1925, was considering branching out into newfangled technology. At the time, the price of a TV set

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