WSIX-FM
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| City | Nashville, Tennessee |
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| Broadcast area | Nashville, Tennessee |
| Branding | The Big 98 WSIX |
| Slogan | Nashville's New Country |
| Frequency | 97.9 MHz (also on HD Radio) 97.9-2 Classic country "Big Legend 98.3" |
| Translator(s) | 98.3 W252CM (Nashville, relays HD2) |
| First air date | 1948 |
| Format | Country |
| ERP | 100,000 watts |
| HAAT | 349 meters |
| Class | C0 |
| Facility ID | 59815 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 36°02′50.00″N 86°49′48.00″W / 36.0472222°N 86.8300000°W |
| Callsign meaning | From 638 Tire Company in Springfield, original home of WSIX-AM (638 was the store's address, "Where Service Is EXcellent" its slogan) |
| Owner |
iHeartMedia, Inc. (Capstar TX LLC) |
| Sister stations | WLAC, WNRQ, WRVW, WUBT |
| Webcast |
Listen Live Listen Live (HD2) |
| Website |
thebig98.iheart.com thebiglegend983.iheart.com (HD2) |
WSIX-FM is an FM radio station broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee on a frequency of 97.9 MHz. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc., and airs a country music format. WSIX-FM has been broadcasting since the late 1950s. The station's studios are located in Nashville's Music Row district and the transmitter site is in Brentwood, Tennessee.
Originally the sister station of a similarly-styled AM station (now WYFN which simulcasts the Bible Broadcasting Network's religious programming), WSIX-FM pioneered the broadcasting in Nashville (and likely elsewhere in the U.S.) of the "countrypolitan" "Nashville sound" of country music, which developed in the 1960s, adding violins and other stringed instruments (and occasionally horns) to the traditionally fiddle- and guitar-driven sound of country music. During those years (beginning in 1967 until the late 1970s) WSIX-FM used the tagline, "We're metropolitan country." As such, WSIX-FM became one of the first successful country-formatted stations on the FM dial in the U.S.; country stations were overwhelmingly found on AM until well into the early 1980s.
In 1983, then-owners General Electric sold the AM and FM stations, along with WNGE-TV (now WKRN), to other interests. Around that time, the stations' (both were simulcasting by this point) format turned to a more straightforward country sound (i.e., honkey tonk and "Outlaw" recordings that previously did not fit the more mellow, quieter playlist).
From May 1, 2006 to August 8, 2008, WSIX-FM was simulcast on XM Satellite Radio (channel 161). The satellite feed typically had roughly 3–4 minutes of commercials per hour. A song that was not on the station's playlist at the moment would play during commercial breaks as well.
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