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According to G. Miller Watkins, WTNT decided that they wanted out of broadcasting and sold frequency to WLAC. WLAC had earlier merged with WDAD so that they could have full time but 1330 was not a good frequency and 1470 was similar to the allocation on what is now 1510. It is my impression the change date for WSM is 1928. WLAC moved up to 1510 on March 29, 1941 transmitting from the old facilities 5kw out off of what is now Murfreesboro Road and Thompsons Lane then moved to the 50kw operation in March of 1942 at 1130 OHB. Miller lived at the old transmitter site until his wife died then he checked himself into a nursing home where he died shortly there after. That was about 1992 I think. If you drive out there and look on top of the hill in the northwest quadrant of that intersection, you will see a pine grove and that is about where the transmitter was. I can't see the house, I think they tore it down after that, It was a mission style building. His son George and his daughter died a few years back so all that information is gone for good.

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I got diverted and it timed out on me.

Further,

At one time, I saw papers in the file there that included a license that indicated that WSIX existed on 1240 from the big move in 1941 until they relocated to 2644 McGavock Pike, 980kHz, 5kw DA-N. They existed at this location until early 1974 when they moved to Neeleys Bend Road. The old WSIX-AM transmitter building is still visable and is the west end of the recent/old WSM studio complex, it has a cupola on top of the old building, its doesn't look like it but it is built like a bomb shelter. Drilling a hole through the exterior wall is a day long process. The old 1210 then 1240 site was on Boscobal Street about where the south parking lot is now at LP Field according to ole Cap Duke (RIP).

Bill Barry says the WTNT tower piers are still behind a houes on the East end of Omahundru Drive near Lebanon Road intersection. One of the old WLAC towers was relocated to Love Circle just east of downtown and served as Nashville Police communications base station and later WPLN transmitter, It was removed a couple years ago.

There has been so many relocations of both those facilities now I am sure all that information was placed in the trash at some point.
Somebody better write this stuff down if its not to late now.

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