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	nashville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The so-called Great Train Wreck of 1918 occurred on July 9, 1918 in Nashville when an inbound local train collided with an outbound express, killing 101.
		On March 1, 1945 W47NV began operations in Nashville becoming the first FM radio station.
		Nashville has had a metropolitan government as a consolidated city-county since 1963.
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	W47NV [Definition] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The USS Tennessee was named in honor of this state.
		It began on an experimental license with callsign W47NV, and was the first commercial FM radio station to be granted an FCC license in the U.S. Related Links
		This initial license was later divested; the current FM station (located on the dial at 95.5 MHz) dates only from the 1960s and its country format only from the 1980s.
	www.wikimirror.com /W47NV (432 words)

	Thrilling Days of Yesteryear : Thrilling Days of Yesteryear
		Commercial FM broadcasting began in the U.S. when station W47NV in Nashville, TN started operations on this day.
		W47NV was the first commercial FM radio station to receive a license, some 20 years after its AM radio counterpart, KDKA in Pittsburgh.
		W47NV operated with 20,000 watts on a frequency of 44,700 kilocycles.
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	FM Broadcasting History - Various Articles
		Becoming the first FM station to start operating on a regular schedule under full-commercial authorization by the FCC, W47NV, Nashville, FM adjunct of WSM, on March 1 started a weekly schedule totaling 70 hours of FM broadcasting.
		Its antenna, completely insulated from WSM signals, utilizes the 878-foot transmitter tower of WSM, and technical operation of both WSM and W47NV centers in the WSM transmitter house [Broadcasting, Dec. 15].
		The FM transmitter, designed by WSM Chief Engineer Jack DeWitt, is said to utilize a new method of generating Armstrong wide-swing FM signals and was custom-built under the direction of the WSM engineering staff.
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	W47NV Encyclopedia Article, History, Biography @ Local Color Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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		license with callsign W47NV, and was the first commercial FM radio station to be granted an
		FCC license in the U.S. This initial license was later divested; the current FM station (located on the dial at 95.5 MHz) dates only from the 1960s and its country format only from the 1980s.
	www.fbg-tx.com /encyclopedia/W47NV (407 words)

	History_3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		DeWitt, who had manned the audio controls at the first Opry broadcast, was the driving force behind this new venture.
		WSM's FM operation first went on the air under the designation "W47NV." The call-code was a combination of the "W" (radio) prefix, the number forty-seven for the last two digits of the assigned frequency, and the letters NV representing Nashville.
		The station operated with an effective radiated power of 65,000 watts and cast a healthy signal into Kentucky and Alabama.
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		March 1 - World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact thus joining the Axis powers.
		March 1 - W47NV begins operations in Nashville, Tennessee becoming the first FM radio station.
		March 11 - World War II : President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan.
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	FM radio: Definition and links.
		On January 5, 1940 FM radio was demonstrated to the FCC for the first time.
		On March 1, 1945 W47NV[?] began operations in Nashville, Tennessee becoming the first FM radio station.
		Do you have a website about FM radio?
	www.encyclopedian.com /fm/FM-radio.html (77 words)

	Tennessee History March 1 - 7 Joelton.com - Joelton, Tennessee
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		1941 - W47NV Nashville became the first FM radio station to be licensed for commercial operation, on 44.7 MHz with 20 kw.
		This station went off the air in 1951.
	www.joelton.com /tennessee/mar1-7.htm (986 words)

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