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Originally Posted by KentTeffeteller
Other things to note! The old pre-WW II FM band and Old and New FM band sets were much more common in Northeastern states, due to FM being more commonplace there. Probably more of these sets from there than from other areas of the USA, though out West there likely are a lot of them in and around California. FM in Eastern Tennessee didn't begin catching on commercially until 1967. Before that, we had less than one dozen FM stations from Upper East Tennessee to Chattanooga, Tennessee. In 1966 in Knoxville, we had 91.9 WUOT-FM, we had WBIR FM 103.5, we had WSEV 102.1 in Sevierville, and one other station I remember. In late 1966, WIVK-FM 107.7 signed on which was the first Knoxville station not dependent on subcarrier background music revenue.
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I grew up in Sevier county, and whenever it snowed we tuned in to WSEV to hear if school was closed. WSEV 102.1 FM played elevator music, and 930 AM played country and had a lot of local talk programming. Even though we were only about 20 miles away from their tower, I remember the FM broadcast was harder to pick up than the AM was.