In March of 1983, WSM launched The Nashville Network, TNN for short. It was an entire television network devoted to country music and programming, and largely produced at Gaslight Studios at Opryland USA. Today we look at how televisions show like Hee Haw, and a phenomenon called “The Rural Purge...

Tony Alamo — his church Alamo Christian Ministries, his store The Alamo, or the Al-ah-mo, and his wife Susan’s dead body — were one of the first phenomena I heard about upon arriving to Nashville. In this episode we get to the bottom of all things Tony Alamo with author Debby Schriver. Debby is t...