{"id":277562,"date":"2025-10-04T16:43:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T16:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/277562\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T16:43:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T16:43:15","slug":"nashvilles-first-tv-station-wsmv4-celebrates-75th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/277562\/","title":{"rendered":"Nashville\u2019s first TV station, WSMV4, celebrates 75th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) &#8211; Nashville\u2019s first TV station is turning 75 this year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">WSMV4 first went on the air on Sept. 30, 1950. The station celebrated the milestone on Tuesday with a special report to look back at its history. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The special aired Tuesday at 6 p.m. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"WSMV - template image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PYQCNXWUIVE27BALA565ZY2LFQ.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"199\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsmv.com\/page\/our-apps\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wsmv.com\/page\/our-apps\/\"><b>Here are instructions on how to watch WSMV4 live on various platforms.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The report delved into how that first newscast came together 75 years ago, the origin story of the iconic Snowbird, and the Hollywood legends that walked through our studios. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In it, you also hear from some beloved figures from the station\u2019s past and present.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-center article-text\"><b>You can watch the special in the two videos below:<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-center article-text\"><b>Part 1:<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-center article-text\"><b>Part 2:<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WSMV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) &#8211; Nashville\u2019s first TV station is turning 75 this year. WSMV4 first went on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":277563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[41151,25719,18485,3852,38387,171,23515,34024,2987,1030,50,143521,143522,6920,399,173,67,132,68,12126,143520],"class_list":{"0":"post-277562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-anchor","9":"tag-anchors","10":"tag-anniversary","11":"tag-broadcast","12":"tag-channel-4","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-journalism","15":"tag-journalist","16":"tag-nashville","17":"tag-nbc","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-news-station","20":"tag-newscast","21":"tag-special","22":"tag-television","23":"tag-tv","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-wsmv","28":"tag-wsmv-4"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115316903396853059","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}