Wednesday, October 1st 2008
Premiere Radio Networks To Broadcast CMA Awards Preview Special Hosted by Taylor Swift
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--Jack Ingram Set to Co-Host CMA Red Carpet Arrivals and Post Show Broadcast with Premiere Radio's Larry Morgan--
LOS ANGELES, October 1, 2008 - Beginning Friday, November 7, Premiere Radio Networks will present its
2008 CMA Awards Preview Special hosted by reigning CMA Horizon Award winner, Taylor Swift. The four-hour radio special, which airs in advance of "The 42nd Annual CMA Awards," will feature music and interviews with all the top stars, including Kenny Chesney, Brad Paisley, George Strait, Keith Urban, Brooks & Dunn, Martina McBride, Rascal Flatts, Miranda Lambert and Sugarland, among others. The special will be broadcast to stations nationwide.
This year, Swift who is nominated in the CMA Female Vocalist of the Year category, is getting set to release her second album,
Fearless -- featuring her current hit, "Love Story" on November 11. It's the follow-up to her self-titled debut, which has been certified three-times platinum and has yielded two #1 Country singles, including her six-week chart topper, "Our Song." Taylor has secured a place in history as the only female solo artist in the history of
Billboard's Country Singles Chart to score five Top 10 singles from a debut album. She is also the first female solo artist in Country Music history to write or co-write every song on a platinum selling debut CD.
In addition, Premiere Radio Networks will present a live broadcast of the Awards telecast, red carpet interviews with the stars, as well as a live post Awards show broadcast with the winners, both hosted by Big Machine recording artist Jack Ingram and Premiere Radio personality Larry Morgan.
Ingram returns as co-host of the 42nd Annual CMA Awards Red Carpet Reports and Awards Post Show for the third year. On November 12, Ingram and Morgan will speak with fellow Country stars and nominated artists as they make their way down the red carpet to the Sommet Center in Nashville, Tenn., for "Country Music's Biggest Night." The Red Carpet Reports will air during afternoon drive on stations nationwide. Following the Awards, Ingram and Morgan will also return as co-hosts of Premiere's CMA Awards Post Show, featuring the night's big winners.
Ingram has made his place in Country's mainstream with five consecutive hits from his breakthrough album
This Is It, including the #1 "Wherever You Are" and the Top 10 tell-off anthem "Love You." As an artist who has built his reputation as the consummate live performer, 2008 has found Ingram energizing crowds on Martina McBride's Waking Up Laughing Tour. Ingram's new single, "That's A Man", from his upcoming Big Machine album, is making its mark at Country radio now.
In conjunction with the "42nd Annual CMA Awards," Premiere Radio Networks will be hosting 50 of the country's top radio stations as they broadcast their morning or afternoon shows live from Nashville in the days leading up to the "42nd Annual CMA Awards" presentation.
"The 42nd Annual CMA Awards" will air live on Wednesday, November 12, (8:00 - 11:00 PM/ET) from the Sommet Center in Nashville on the ABC Television Network.
About Premiere Radio Networks
Premiere Radio Networks, Inc., a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications, syndicates 90 radio programs and services to more than 5,000 radio affiliations and reaches over 190 million listeners weekly. Premiere Radio is the number one radio network in the country and features the following personalities: Rush Limbaugh, Jim Rome, Casey Kasem, Ryan Seacrest, Glenn Beck, Bob & Tom, Delilah, Steve Harvey, Blair Garner, George Noory, John Boy and Billy, Big Tigger, Dr. Dean Edell, Bob Costas, Sean Hannity and others. Premiere is based in Sherman Oaks, California, with 13 offices nationwide.
About the Country Music Association
In 2008, the Country Music Association celebrates its 50th anniversary. Founded in 1958, CMA was the first trade organization formed to promote a type of music. More than 6,000 music industry professionals and companies from around the globe are members of CMA. The organization's objectives are to advance the growth of Country Music around the world and to demonstrate it as a viable medium to advertisers, consumers, and the media through CMA's core initiatives - CMA Music Festival and the CMA Awards.
The 2007 CMA Awards, held in Nashville during November Sweeps (Nov. 7), ranked behind only the Academy Awards and Grammy Awards during the 2007-2008 television season for awards shows among total viewers. With "The 41st Annual CMA Awards," ABC won Monday evening in both total viewers (16 million) and adults 18-49 (5.4/13). According to Nielsen, research estimates that 34.6 million viewers watched all or part of the ceremony.
