WTWW in Lebanon, Tennessee
- Station: WTWW in Lebanon, Tennessee
Band: Shortwave 5085 KhZ
Date: March 12, 2021
About: WTWW is a shortwave station located in Lebanon, Tennessee.
WTWW broadcasts religious programming from LaPorte Church of Christ, a church with Christian Identity sympathies based in Colorado, carrying that church's Scriptures for America programming service. It is officially licensed to Leap of Faith, Inc. As of December 2022, WTWW has one working transmitter, that on 5.085 MHz, which operates during the evening hours.
Until 2022, WTWW had also carried an oldies/classic hits format operated by Ted Randall, who also appeared on several programs on the station, and his wife Holly on the 5.085 MHz and 9.94 MHz frequencies. WTWW went off-air November 10, 2022, with Randall taking the oldies format to WRMI; the station returned to the air sporadically in December solely carrying Scriptures for America. WTWW is licensed several other frequencies that are off-air.
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Notes: I sent several reception reports to WTWW. They sent me a small bumper sticker but never a QSL.
WSM in Nashville, Tennessee
- Station: WSM in Nashville, Tennessee
Band: AM 650 KhZ
Date: February 4, 2022
About: WSM (650 kHz) is a 50,000-watt clear channel AM radio station located in Nashville, Tennessee. It broadcasts a full-time country music format (with classic country and Americana leanings, the latter of which is branded as "Route 650") at 650 kHz and is known primarily as the home of the Grand Ole Opry, the world's longest running radio program. The station's clear channel signal can reach much of North America and nearby countries, especially late at night. It is one of two clear-channel stations in North America, along with CFZM in Toronto, that still primarily broadcast music; as recently as 2020, the station was live and locally originated during the overnight hours, but the overnight host position was eliminated in February 2020. Nicknamed "The Air Castle of the South," it spawned two sister stations on newer mediums: WSM-FM, which signed off in 1951 (WSM bought a different FM station in the 1960s which now has the WSM-FM callsign; and television Channel 4 (originally WSM-TV, and now WSMV-TV), which was later sold separately. The current WSM-FM is no longer affiliated with WSM, while the owners of WSMV and WSM jointly operate the television network Circle, which airs on a subchannel of WSMV and simulcasts portions of the Opry with WSM. WSM is owned by Opry Entertainment Group, a joint venture of Ryman Hospitality Properties, NBC Universal and Atairos.
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Notes: I emailed a reception report to WSM but did not receive a response.