FM Sister
W47NV 47.7 MHZ was America's first commercial FM broadcast station. Its antenna is still mounted to the top of the Blaw Knox tower at Brentwood. It is rumored that Major E.H. Armstrong (inventor of Frequency Modulation) installed the antenna personally (as he loved climbing towers). After World War 2 W47NV became WSM-FM and moved frequencies to 103.3 MHZ, and was eventually sold off. Other stations on the east coast had signed on with FM, and Major Armstrong's "Yankee Network", but W47NV was the first commercial FM, the rest were non-commercial licenses. The current incarnation of WSM-FM was bought by National Life, and redesignated WSM-FM in 1968, an acquisition from another broadcaster. WSM-FM (95.5 MHz) was WSM's sister until 2008, when Cumulus Media, the full owner of WSM-FM since 2003, ended its joint sales agreement with the AM (see below). Despite identical callsigns, the two stations are no longer related.
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