Circle Network
United States, Nashville
Circle, also known on-air as Circle Network, is an American digital multicast television network owned by Circle Media, LLC, a joint venture of Gray Television and Ryman Hospitality Properties subsidiary Opry Entertainment Group.
Main Services:
Country Music Television, Grand Ole Opry
The network’s programming consists of country music oriented shows, and rural/blue collar themed material, featuring a mix of original and off-network shows.
The network is available primarily through the digital subchannels of broadcast television stations, as well as an ad-supported video-on-demand channel on Peacock and Stirr, along with national carriage on Dish Network and Sling TV. Cable television and IPTV providers may offer either the network’s local affiliate, or the network’s national feed on their systems.
Circle Media is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, with offices at Ryman’s E.W. Wendell Building and production facilities inside the Grand Ole Opry House. The network’s flagship station is Gray’s WSMV-DT5, a station which had been owned by a forerunner company of RHP until its sale in 1981 and separation from WSM and WSM-FM (Gray acquired the station from Meredith Corporation in 2021). The network is master controlled out of Gray’s Atlanta hub.