WSM's unusual diamond-shaped antenna ( manufactured by Blaw-Knox ) is visible from Interstate 65 just south of Nashville ( in Brentwood ) and is one of the area's landmarks.

* Information on WSM's unusual tower

The program is also streamed on WSM's website.

Because of WSM's incredible reach, musical acts from all across the eastern United States would come to Nashville in the early decades of the station's existence, in hopes of getting their performances played on WSM.

From 2002 until 2006, the station was a choice on Sirius Satellite Radio, which carried a full-time simulcast of WSM's AM 650 signal, except during NASCAR races.

In 2006, IronMind manufactured a harness for the WSM's Car Walk event after consulting with two-time WSM winner Jouko Ahola on the design.

As the opinions expressed in these articles could not be reconciled with the WSM's Declaration of Principles, the Bund was dropped as a WSM companion party circa 2003.

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 ).

This and the Grand Ole Opry solidified WSM's central role in the history of country music.

When country music became a big business in the late 1940s, WLAC added early-morning and Saturday-afternoon shows in an attempt to steal some of WSM's thunder.

Also included in Gaylord's acquisition of the Opryland assets was WSM's fledgling cable network, The Nashville Network ( TNN ) and its production arm, Opryland Productions.

The record company's attorneys successfully argued that WSM's management indeed owned the rights to the words Grand Ole Opry, but only in that order and combination, but no more owned the word " opry " in isolation than they owned " grand " or " ole ".

WSM's administrative offices next door to the Grand Ole Opry House were completely destroyed by the flood and later demolished, resulting in the loss of several priceless documents from the station's history.

Through a 5-year joint sales agreement, however, Gaylord paid Cumulus a fee to operate WSM's sales department and provide news updates for the station.

No other strongman contest commands close to the WSM's levels of TV exposure.

No other strongman contest commands close to the WSM's levels of TV exposure.

WSM's powerful nighttime clear channel signal allows WSM to be heard in a large part of the US and Canada.

WBT's unusual diamond-shaped antennas ( called Blaw-Knox Towers ), make up three of only eight still operational in the United States.

Cysteine is unusual since it has a sulfur atom at the second position in its side-chain, which has a larger atomic mass than the groups attached to the first carbon, which is attached to the α-carbon in the other standard amino acids, thus the ( R ) instead of ( S ).

The river, named Hamza after the discoverer, an Indian-born scientist Valiya Mannathal Hamza who is working with the National Observatory at Rio, makes it the first and geologically unusual instance of a twin-river system flowing at different levels of the earth's crust in Brazil.

The first player's bowl has come to rest just in front of the jack ; the second has delivered his bowl and is following after it with one of those eccentric contortions still not unusual on modern greens, the first player meanwhile making a repressive gesture with his hand, as if to urge the bowl to stop short of his own ; the third player is depicted as in the act of delivering his bowl.

::: Taking the first or even the second strike without swinging is not unusual.

Claudius ' love life was unusual for an upper-class Roman of his day, in that he was the only one out of the first 15 emperors not to take men or boys, but only women as lovers.

Near the end of the first decade of the double-Bills ' guidance, the Cubs won the NL pennant in 1929 and then achieved the unusual feat of winning a pennant every three years, following up the 1929 flag with league titles in 1932, 1935, and 1938.

The discovery image gave the first hint that comet Shoemaker – Levy 9 was an unusual comet, as it appeared to show multiple nuclei in an elongated region about 50 arcseconds long and 10 arcseconds wide.

Between 1892 and 1914 destroyers became markedly larger: initially 420 tons with a length of for the US Navy's first Bainbridge class of torpedo boat destroyers, up to the First World War with long destroyers displacing 1000 tons was not unusual.

" At the same time the unusual nature of the proof — it was the first major theorem to be proven with extensive computer assistance — and the complexity of the human verifiable portion, aroused considerable controversy.

The unusual stability of the helium-4 nucleus is also important cosmologically: it explains the fact that in the first few minutes after the Big Bang, as the " soup " of free protons and neutrons which had initially been created in about 6: 1 ratio cooled to the point that nuclear binding was possible, almost all first compound atomic nuclei to form were helium-4 nuclei.

Their first obstacle was the unusual shape of the building site, a trapezoid of land at the intersection of Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenues.

The use of the word ' psychotic ' is the reason why Anders Behring Breivik would automatically have been given a treatment order by the court, if the ( very unusual ) second psychiatric report had been in concordance with the first report.

That brevity has also been connected to other unusual features: the fast pace of the first act, which has seemed to be " stripped for action "; the comparative flatness of the characters other than Macbeth ; the oddness of Macbeth himself compared with other Shakespearean tragic heroes.

While reading National Geographic, Mr. T first noticed the unusual hairstyle for which he is now famous, on a Mandinka warrior.

It is not unusual in Methodism for each congregation to normally hold an annual Covenant Service on the first convenient Sunday of the year, and Wesley's Covenant Prayer is still used, with minor modification, in the order of service.

He is unusual amongst the majority of current Test players in that he has played in more Test matches than other first-class games ( 116 Tests and 99 other first class matches as of 2007 ). He has been signed by Gloucestershire in 2011 to play in T20 matches.

The comparatively unusual nature of the second part is due to the fact that it comprises notes that Wittgenstein may have intended to re-incorporate into the first part.

There is an unusual pyramid with a circular plan at the site of Cuicuilco, now inside Mexico City and mostly covered with lava from an eruption of the Xitle Volcano in the first century BC.

The unusual appearance of this egg-laying, venomous, duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed mammal baffled European naturalists when they first encountered it, with some considering it an elaborate fraud.

Pope Pius II inaugurated an unusual urban project, perhaps the first city planning exercise in modern Europe.

In their haste, they enthroned him before he was consecrated a priest ; this was an unusual reversal of the normal proceedings, and in fact was the first time it had happened in the recorded history of the papacy, although it would be repeated during the pontificate of Pope Benedict III.

Neptune's rings are very unusual in that they first appeared to be composed of incomplete arcs in Earth-based observations, but Voyager 2's images showed them to be complete rings with bright clumps.

It was not until June that the unusual seriousness of the plague became apparent, and Pepys's activities in the first five months of the year were not significantly impacted by plague.