{"id":33623,"date":"2012-07-20T06:06:30","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T10:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=33623"},"modified":"2016-10-28T09:14:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T13:14:42","slug":"the-roots-of-the-grand-ole-opry-this-photo-from-early-1949-shows-wbap-in-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=33623","title":{"rendered":"The Roots of the Grand Ole Opry&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Roots of the Grand Ole Opry&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This photo from early 1949 shows WBAP in Fort Worth&#8217;s &#8216;Saturday Night Barn Dance&#8217; show on the air with an RCA TK10 working to capture it&#8230;horses and all. The television version of &#8216;Barn Dance&#8217; is actually a spin off of the WBAP radio show at started in 1923.<\/p>\n<p>The radio show was such a hit that others quickly copied the format. Radio station WLS in Chicago (the initials stood for &#8220;World&#8217;s Largest Store&#8221; since it was owned by Sears, Roebuck, &#038; Co.) premiered one of the first copies called &#8216;National Barn Dance&#8217;, in 1924. Other stations followed suit &#8211; KWKH of Shreveport, Louisiana, with the &#8216;Louisiana Hayride&#8217;, WWVA of Wheeling, West Virginia, with the &#8216;Wheeling Jamboree&#8217; and, of course, WSM of Nashville, Tennessee, with the &#8216;Grand Ole Opry&#8217; which debuted in 1925. WSM TV began broadcasting in 1950 and soon after, The Opry went on the air.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/411931375511084\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/The-Roots-of-the-Grand-Ole-Opry...-This-photo-from-early-1949-shows-WBAP-in-F\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/411931388844416\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Roots of the Grand Ole Opry&#8230; This photo from early 1949 shows WBAP in Fort Worth&#8217;s &#8216;Saturday Night Barn Dance&#8217; show on the air with an RCA TK10 working to capture it&#8230;horses and all. The television version of &#8216;Barn Dance&#8217; is actually a spin off of the WBAP radio show at started in 1923. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":33624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[724,788,725,806],"class_list":["post-33623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cast","tag-rca","tag-star","tag-wor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}