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Do not fill this in! ==Media== {{Main|Media in Nashville, Tennessee}} [[File:Tennessean office.jpg|thumb|Former offices of ''[[The Tennessean]]'']] The daily newspaper in Nashville is ''[[The Tennessean]]'', which until 1998 competed with the ''[[Nashville Banner]]'', another daily paper that was housed in the same building under a [[joint operating agreement|joint-operating agreement]].<ref name=jacksonsun>{{cite news|title=Nashville Banner prints its own true 'final edition'|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/282249277/|access-date=November 4, 2017|work=[[The Jackson Sun]]|date=February 21, 1998|location=Jackson, Tennessee|page=6|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|url-access=registration}}</ref> ''The Tennessean'' is the city's most widely circulated newspaper. Online news service ''[[NashvillePost.com]]'' competes with the printed dailies to break local and state news. Several weekly papers are also published in Nashville, including ''The Nashville Pride'', ''[[Nashville Business Journal]]'', ''[[Nashville Scene]]'' and ''The Tennessee Tribune''. Historically, ''The Tennessean'' was associated with a broadly liberal editorial policy, while ''The Banner'' carried staunchly conservative views in its editorial pages;<ref name=jacksonsun/> ''The Banner'''s heritage had been carried on, to an extent, by ''[[The City Paper]]'' which folded in August 2013 after having been founded in October 2000. The ''Nashville Scene'' is the area's [[alternative newspaper|alternative weekly]] broadsheet. ''The Nashville Pride'' is aimed towards community development and serves Nashville's entrepreneurial population. ''Nashville Post'' is an online news source covering business, politics and sports. Nashville is home to eleven broadcast television stations, although most households are served by direct [[Cable television|cable]] network connections. [[Comcast|Comcast Cable]] has a monopoly on terrestrial cable service in Davidson County (but not throughout the entire [[media market]]). Nashville is ranked as the 29th largest television market in the United States.<ref>{{cite web |title=2021 Nielsen DMA Rankings |url=https://oaaa.org/Portals/0/Public%20PDFs/OAAA%202021%20NIELSEN%20DMA%20Rankings%20Report.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220224031435/https://oaaa.org/Portals/0/Public%20PDFs/OAAA%202021%20NIELSEN%20DMA%20Rankings%20Report.pdf |archive-date=February 24, 2022 |access-date=March 10, 2022 |work=Out of Home Advertising Association of America}}</ref> Major stations include [[WKRN-TV]] 2 ([[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]), [[WSMV-TV]] 4 ([[NBC]]), [[WTVF]] 5 ([[CBS]]), [[WNPT (TV)|WNPT]] 8 ([[PBS]]), [[WTNX-LD]] 15 ([[Telemundo]]), [[WZTV]] 17 ([[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]], with [[The CW]] on DT2), [[WNPX-TV]] 28 ([[Ion Television|ion]]), [[WPGD-TV]] 50 ([[Trinity Broadcasting Network|TBN]]), [[WLLC-LD]] 42 ([[Univision]]), [[WUXP-TV]] 30 ([[MyNetworkTV]]), ([[WJFB]]) 44 ([[MeTV]]), and [[WNAB]] 58 ([[Dabl]]).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=print_market&mktid=37 |title=Stations for Nashville, Tennessee |website=Rabbitears.info}}</ref> Nashville is also home to cable networks [[Country Music Television]] (CMT) and [[RFD-TV]], among others. CMT's [[master control]] facilities are located in New York City with other [[Viacom (2005βpresent)|Viacom]] properties. The Top 20 Countdown and CMT Insider are taped in their Nashville studios. [[Shop at Home Network]] was once based in Nashville, but the channel signed off in 2008.<ref>{{cite news |last=Harrington|first=Carly|date=January 8, 2008|title=Jewelry Television pulls plug on Shop at Home network|url=http://archive.knoxnews.com/business/jewelry-television-pulls-plug-on-shop-at-home-network-ep-412248288-360041231.html/|work=[[Knoxville News Sentinel]]|location=Knoxville, Tennessee|access-date=March 15, 2020}}</ref> Several [[Frequency modulation|FM]] and [[Amplitude modulation|AM]] radio stations broadcast in the Nashville area, including five [[Campus radio|college stations]] and one [[low-power broadcasting|LPFM]] [[community radio]] station. Nashville is ranked as the 44th largest radio market in the United States. [[WSM-FM]] is owned by Cumulus Media and is 95.5 FM. [[WSM (AM)|WSM-AM]], owned by Gaylord Entertainment Company, is based on the [[Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center]]. WSM is famous for carrying live broadcasts of the Grand Ole Opry, through which it helped spread the popularity of country music in America, and continues to broadcast country music throughout its broadcast day. [[WLAC]], whose over-the-air signal is heard at 1510 AM, is an [[iHeartMedia]]-owned talk station which was originally sponsored by the [[Life and Casualty Insurance Company of Tennessee]], and its competitor [[WWTN]] is owned by [[Cumulus Media|Cumulus]]. Several major motion pictures have been filmed in Nashville, including ''[[The Green Mile (film)|The Green Mile]]'', β[[The Matrix]]β, ''[[The Last Castle]]'', ''[[Gummo]]'', β[[Starman]]β, ''[[The Thing Called Love]]'', ''[[Two Weeks (2006 film)|Two Weeks]]'', ''[[Coal Miner's Daughter (film)|Coal Miner's Daughter]]'', ''[[Nashville (film)|Nashville]]'',<ref name="Romine2006β32">{{cite book |title=Frommer's Nashville & Memphis |publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons|Wiley]] |location=Hoboken |first=Linda |last=Romine |year=2006 |edition=7th |page=32 |isbn=0-471-77614-9}}</ref> and ''[[Country Strong]]'', as well as the ABC television series ''[[Nashville (2012 TV series)|Nashville]]''. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. 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