The Nashville, TN designated market area (DMA) is a U.S. television market serving the people in the state of Tennessee. It is the 26th biggest media market by size in the United States, with a total population of 1,199,400 TV households as of the 2024-2025 television season, up +1% from that of the 2023-2024 season. The Nashville DMA comprises 49 counties across two states, namely, Allen, Christian, Clinton, Cumberland, Logan, Monroe, Simpson, Todd, and Trigg, KY; and Bedford, Benton, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee, Davidson, De Kalb, Decatur, Dickson, Franklin, Giles, Henry, Hickman, Houston, Humphreys, Jackson, Lawrence, Lewis, Macon, Marshall, Maury, Montgomery, Moore, Overton, Perry, Pickett, Putnam, Robertson, Rutherford, Smith, Stewart, Sumner, Trousdale, Van Buren, Warren, Wayne, White, Williamson, and Wilson, TN.
Why is Winchester TN (Franklin County) in the Nashville market, we are 90 miles away from Nashville. No Nashville OTA channels can be viewed here unless you have cable or satellite. This is a huge problem when there are severe storms in the area. Huntsville AL is 45 miles away and most local channels can be viewed with an antenna. Unfortunately, when storms move into Franklin Co TN the Huntsville tv weather people tell viewers to go to Nashville channels. This is crazy and dangerous, especially since Franklin Co weather alerts come from the Huntsville AL NWS office. This needs to be addressed and corrected.