Editing Grand Ole Opry (section)

==Broadcasts==
[[File:Dolly parton grand ole opry.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Dolly Parton]] at the Opry in 2005]]
[[File:Eddie Stubbs at the Grand Ole Opry.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Eddie Stubbs]] announcing for the Opry in 2012]]
The ''Grand Ole Opry'' is broadcast live on WSM-AM at 7 p.m. CT on Saturday nights, changed from a previous time start of 6:30. A similar program, ''Friday Night Opry'', airs live on Friday nights. From February through December, ''Tuesday Night Opry'' is also aired live.<ref name="Opry">{{cite web|title=Tune In|url=http://www.opry.com/tune-in/index.html|publisher=Grand Ole Opry|access-date=December 9, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121213063102/http://www.opry.com/tune-in/index.html|archive-date=December 13, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> Wednesday shows are typically presented in the summer months, while an "Opry Country Classics" program sporadically airs on Thursdays, devoted solely to older artists. Additional Christmas-themed shows, entitled ''Opry Country Christmas'', began production during the 2021 holiday season.

The Opry provides a fourteen-piece [[house band]] for performers should they not have a band of their own.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.opry.com/artists/the-opry-band/|title=The Opry Band}}</ref>

The Opry can also be heard live on ''[[Willie's Roadhouse]]'' on channel 59 on [[Sirius XM Satellite Radio]], and the program streams on WSM's website.<ref name="Opry"/> [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] broadcast the ''Grand Ole Opry'' as a monthly series from 1955 to 1956, and [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]] televised annual live performances from 1978 to 1981.<ref>{{cite web|last=Fay|first=Byron|title=First Televised Opry Show on PBS-March 4, 1978|date=March 3, 2012|url=http://fayfare.blogspot.com/2012/03/first-televised-opry-show-on-pbs-march.html |publisher=FayFare's Opry Blog|access-date=December 9, 2012}}</ref> In 1985, [[The Nashville Network]], co-owned by Gaylord, began airing an edited half-hour version of the program as ''Grand Ole Opry Live.'' The show moved to [[Country Music Television]], also owned by Gaylord, where it expanded to an hour, and then to the [[Great American Country]] (GAC) cable network,<ref>{{cite web|title=History of the Opry|url=http://www.opry.com/about/History.html|publisher=Grand Ole Opry|access-date=December 9, 2012|archive-date=May 18, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130518032632/http://www.opry.com/about/History.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> which no longer televised its ''Opry Live'' show after both networks [[channel drift]]ed towards generic Southern lifestyle programming.<ref>{{cite web|title=GAC's Presents Opry Live|url=http://www.gactv.com/gac/shows_goo|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120906022332/http://www.gactv.com/gac/shows_goo|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 6, 2012|publisher=GAC (Great American Country)|access-date=December 9, 2012}}</ref> [[Circle (TV network)|Circle]], a new over-the-air [[digital subchannel]] network operated by [[Gray Television]] and Ryman Hospitality Properties, resumed telecasting the ''Opry'' as its flagship program when it launched in 2020, and former WSM radio sister station [[WSMV-TV|WSMV-DT5]] is the network's [[Flagship (broadcasting)|flagship station]]. Initially simulcasting the radio version, since 2021, the television ''Opry Live'' has been pre-recorded [[live to tape]] telecasts of recent ''Opry'' shows (the show's time slot often coincides with intermission and less demographic-friendly radio segments such as square dancing and audience participation bits). Circle ended its over-the-air operations at the end of 2023, with ''Opry Live'' being moved to [[broadcast syndication|syndication]].<ref name="Circle Ends">{{cite news |last1=Bouma |first1=Luke|title=The OTA TV Network Circle Is Shutting Down & Will Be Replaced By Warner Bros. Discovery's New Network |url=https://cordcuttersnews.com/the-ota-tv-network-circle-is-shutting-down-will-be-replaced-by-warner-bros-discoverys-new-network/ |access-date=November 11, 2023 |work=Cord Cutter News |date=November 10, 2023}}</ref> [[RFD-TV]] carries [[rerun]]s of Opry telecasts under the title ''Opry Encore''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rfdtv.com/story/34115094/opry-encore#.WSY32EdtnIU|title=Opry Encore|access-date=May 25, 2017|archive-date=November 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181121042723/https://www.rfdtv.com/story/34115094/opry-encore#.WSY32EdtnIU|url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[Sky Arts]] simulcasts ''Opry Live'' in the [[United Kingdom]].<ref name="Circle Ends"/>