Country Music's Biggest Stars Attend Premiere Radio's CMA Awards Remote Broadcast

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LOS ANGELES, November 13, 2008 - Premiere Radio Networks welcomed numerous stars to its CMA Awards Radio Remote Broadcast that leads up to "The 42nd Annual CMA Awards." Live from Nashville, Taylor Swift, Sugarland, Martina McBride, Miranda Lambert, Lady Antebellum, Jason Aldean, Kellie Pickler, and Kevin Costner visited more than 50 of the top Country radio stations from across the nation. Participating stations included KFRG-Los Angeles, WMZQ-Washington, D.C., WXTU-Philadelphia, KSCS-Dallas, KMPS-Seattle, KILT-Houston, WPOC-Baltimore, KBWF-San Francisco and WUBL-Atlanta.

In addition to the remote broadcast, Premiere Radio's comprehensive CMA programming package also included the CMA Awards Preview, Red Carpet Reports and CMA Post Show.

The CMA Awards Preview, hosted by Taylor Swift, aired in advance of "The 42nd Annual CMA Awards." The four-hour special featured music and interviews with leading award nominees. For the Red Carpet Reports, Host Jack Ingram interviewed numerous celebrities and nominees as they arrived.
The CMA Post Show included round-up interviews with award winners, conducted by Ingram and After MidNite's Larry Morgan.

This is the 17th consecutive year that Premiere Radio has partnered with the Country Music Association to provide radio programming in conjunction with the CMA Awards.




Taylor Swift chatting with Blair Garner in the After MidNite TV studio at the Remote Broadcast.




Kevin Costner speaking at the Premiere Radio Networks Opening Night Reception.




Martina McBride chatting with WPOC at the Remote Broadcast.




Lady Antebellum at the Remote Broadcast.


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
Founded in 1958, the Country Music Association was the first trade organization formed to promote a type of music. Celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2008, CMA has grown to include more than 6,000 music industry professionals and companies from around the globe . 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.