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The weekly stage show and broadcast would play an important role in the popularization of country music and is today the longest running radio program in the world. [2] By the late 1950s, the city's record labels dominated the country music genre with slick pop-country (Nashville sound), overtaking honky-tonk in the charts.
The Country Music Foundation (CMF) chartered by the state of Tennessee in 1964, is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and education surrounding country music. The CMF currently employs more than 70 full-time professionals and is "the world's largest research center devoted to a single form of popular music." [1]
The Nashville Network was launched as a basic cable and satellite television network on March 7, 1983, operating from the now-defunct Opryland USA theme park near Nashville, Tennessee. Country Music Television (CMT), founded by Glenn D. Daniels, beat TNN's launch by two days to become the first country music cable television network.
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is the world's largest repository of country music artifacts. Early in the 1960s, as the Country Music Association's (CMA) campaign to publicize country music was accelerating, CMA leaders determined that a new organization was needed to operate a country music museum and related activities beyond CMA's scope as simply a trade organization.
A country music fan on Ryman Auditorium stage in 1990. During its tenure at Ryman Auditorium, the Opry hosted the major country music stars of the day and became a show known around the world. In addition to its home on WSM, portions of the show (at various times throughout its history) were also broadcast on network radio and television to a ...
The Bristol recording sessions, held in 1927, have been called by some the "Big Bang" of modern country music. [20] They helped launch the careers of Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family, among others. In 1998, the U.S. Congress formally recognized Bristol as the "Birthplace of Country Music", [21] and the Birthplace of Country Music Museum ...
"Country music is going to do for America what Taylor Swift did for the NFL," jokes the performer, 32, born Ernest Keith Smith in Nashville's suburbs. A circle closes, a star rises
MCA Nashville started out as the country music division of Decca Records in 1945, founded by Paul Cohen [3] in New York. In 1947, Cohen hired Owen Bradley as his assistant working in Nashville. The country music division moved to Nashville in 1955 as much of the country music recording business was locating there. [4]