The Dixie Network was a radio

Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...

 network which operated in the Southern United States

Southern United States

The Southern United States—commonly referred to as the American South, Dixie, or simply the South—constitutes a large distinctive area in the southeastern and south-central United States...

 primarily in the 1940s and 1950s. The stations often had the letters "DX" within their call signs, such as WDXN in Clarksville, Tennessee

Clarksville, Tennessee

Clarksville is a city in and the county seat of Montgomery County, Tennessee, United States, and the fifth largest city in the state. The population was 132,929 in 2010 United States Census...

 and WDXE

WDXE (AM)

WDXE is a Classic Country music formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, serving Lawrenceburg and Lawrence County, Tennessee. WDXE is owned and operated by Lakewood Communications, LLC....

 in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee

Lawrenceburg, Tennessee

Lawrenceburg is a city in Lawrence County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 10,796 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Lawrence County...

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The Dixie Network was based in Jackson, Tennessee

Jackson, Tennessee

Jackson is a city in Madison County, Tennessee, United States. The total population was 65,211 at the 2010 census. Jackson is the primary city of the Jackson, Tennessee metropolitan area, which is included in the Jackson-Humboldt, Tennessee Combined Statistical Area...

 where it operated WDXI

WDXI

WDXI is a radio station broadcasting a news talk information format. Licensed to Jackson, Tennessee, USA, the station is currently owned by Gerald W. Hunt and features programing from Citadel Media and Business Talk Radio Network....

-AM, 5,000 watts at 1310 and WDXI-TV, which is now WBBJ-TV

WBBJ-TV

WBBJ-TV is the ABC-affiliated television station for Western Tennessee licensed to Jackson. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 43 from a transmitter on Potts Chapel Road in unincorporated Eastern Madison County. The station can also be seen on Charter channel 7 and...

, Channel 7 ABC. They also owned WENK

WENK

WENK is an AM radio station based in northwest Tennessee. In its first incarnation, WENK-AM 1240 went on the air with 250 watts day and night from the upstairs of a furniture store on October 26, 1946. WTPR-AM 710 went on the air with 250 watts daytime from the second floor of a building on the...

, Union City, TN and WTPR AM/FM, Paris, TN. WTPR-FM is now WAKQ. Dixie also owned WDXN, Clarksville

Clarksville, Tennessee

Clarksville is a city in and the county seat of Montgomery County, Tennessee, United States, and the fifth largest city in the state. The population was 132,929 in 2010 United States Census...

, WDXE, Lawrenceburg

Lawrenceburg, Tennessee

Lawrenceburg is a city in Lawrence County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 10,796 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Lawrence County...

 and an AM station in Corinth, Mississippi

Corinth, Mississippi

Corinth is a city in Alcorn County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 14,054 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Alcorn County. Its ZIP codes are 38834 and 38835.- History :...

, WCMA (AM)

WCMA (AM)

WCMA was a radio station licensed to serve the community of Daleville, Alabama, USA. The station, established in 1982 as WRDJ, is currently owned by Perihelion Global, Inc...

 1230AM - "1-2-3-0 on your radio". WCMA, like the other Dixie Network stations (as well as almost all small-town stations of the era), had a variety format, at least into the mid-1960s.

The network was owned and operated by Aaron B. Robinson. Upon his death in 1973, the stations were held in trust by a bank in Jackson which was to decide if Aaron Junior should inherit them. The bank deemed that he should not and the stations began to be sold in 1973.

Some of the network programming included "Dateline Dixie, news of the south for those in the south”. T.N.T, temperature news and time....the outcue for all events was "This is Dixie". And of course, the stations signed on and off with Dixie

Dixie (song)

Countless lyrical variants of "Dixie" exist, but the version attributed to Dan Emmett and its variations are the most popular. Emmett's lyrics as they were originally intended reflect the mood of the United States in the late 1850s toward growing abolitionist sentiment. The song presented the point...

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Former Dixie Network Radio Stations

• WDXN-AM 540 - Clarksville, Tennessee
  Clarksville, Tennessee
  Clarksville is a city in and the county seat of Montgomery County, Tennessee, United States, and the fifth largest city in the state. The population was 132,929 in 2010 United States Census...
  
   (now WKFN AM 540)
• WENK-AM 1240 - Union City, Tennessee
  Union City, Tennessee
  Union City is a city in Obion County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 10,876 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Obion County. The name comes from its location at the union of two railroads, one running roughly east-west and the other roughly north-south...
  
  
• WTPR-AM 710 - Paris, Tennessee
  Paris, Tennessee
  Paris is a city in Henry County, Tennessee, United States, west of Nashville, on a fork of the West Sandy River. In 1900, 2,018 people lived in Paris, Tennessee; in 1910, 3,881; and in 1940, 6,395. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 9,763. It is the county seat of Henry...
  
  
• WDXE-AM 1370 - Lawrenceburg, Tennessee
  Lawrenceburg, Tennessee
  Lawrenceburg is a city in Lawrence County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 10,796 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Lawrence County...