<P> The Opry's current primary slogan is "The Show that Made Country Music Famous". Other slogans include "Home of American Music" and "Country's Most Famous Stage". </P> <P> In the 1930s the show began hiring professionals and expanded to four hours; and WSM, broadcasting by then with 50,000 watts, made the program a Saturday night musical tradition in nearly 30 states . In 1939, it debuted nationally on NBC Radio . The Opry moved to a permanent home, the Ryman Auditorium, in 1943 . As it developed in importance, so did the city of Nashville, which became America's "country music capital". The Grand Ole Opry holds such significance in Nashville that its name is included on the city / county line signs on all major roadways . The signs read "Music City Metropolitan Nashville Davidson County Home of the Grand Ole Opry". </P> <P> Membership in the Opry remains one of country music's crowning achievements . Such country music legends as Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, Marty Robbins, Roy Acuff, the Carter family, Bill Monroe, Ernest Tubb, Kitty Wells, and Minnie Pearl became regulars on the Opry's stage . In recent decades, the Opry has hosted such contemporary country stars as Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Alan Jackson, Garth Brooks, Reba McEntire, Josh Turner, Carrie Underwood, Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts, Dierks Bentley, Little Big Town, Blake Shelton, Chris Young, and Ricky Skaggs . Since 1974, the show has been broadcast from the Grand Ole Opry House east of downtown Nashville, with an annual three - month winter foray back to the Ryman since 1999 . Performances have been sporadically televised in addition to the radio programs . </P> <P> The Grand Ole Opry started as the WSM Barn Dance in the new fifth - floor radio studio of the National Life & Accident Insurance Company in downtown Nashville on November 28, 1925 . On October 18, 1925, management began a program featuring "Dr. Humphrey Bate and his string quartet of old - time musicians ." On November 2, WSM hired long - time announcer and program director George D. "Judge" Hay, an enterprising pioneer from the National Barn Dance program at WLS in Chicago, who was also named the most popular radio announcer in America as a result of his radio work with both WLS and WMC in Memphis, Tennessee . Hay launched the WSM Barn Dance with 77 - year - old fiddler Uncle Jimmy Thompson on November 28, 1925, which is celebrated as the birth date of the Grand Ole Opry . </P>

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