Vince Gill, Chris Young, Bill Anderson & More to Celebrate Grand Ole Opry's 5,000th
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On Oct. 30, the Grand Ole Opry will celebrate its historic 5,000th Saturday night broadcast with performances from Opry members Bill Anderson, Terri Clark, the Gatlin Brothers, Vince Gill, Chris Janson, Jeannie Seely, Connie Smith and Chris Young, among others.
The radio show that would become known as the Grand Ole Opry began airing on WSM in 1925 and later added television broadcasts and digital streaming broadcasts. The Opry has since become the world’s longest-running radio show, as performers have kept the music going, weathering the Great Depression, World War II, two floods in Nashville and, most recently, a global pandemic. In March 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic forced the shutdown of other live music broadcasts, the Opry kept the music playing via 650 AM WSM, SiriusXM radio and a partnership with Circle Network, via Gray Television -- a partnership that launched just prior to the pandemic, in January 2020.
