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3 unusual facts about CMT


Cowgirl's Prayer

Despite the lack of radio airplay, accomplanying videos for the album's three singles, "High Powered Love", the Cajun-themed "Crescent City", and Jesse Winchester's "Thanks to You", received considerable exposure on CMT.

NASCAR on TNN

Also by 1995, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, who at the time owned the CBS networks and had an existing relationship with TNN through its Group W division, purchased TNN and its sister network CMT outright to form CBS Cable, along with a short-lived startup network entitled Eye On People (now Investigation Discovery).

WCJC

The station's line-up includes Big John (John Morgan) in the mornings (5-10AM), Sammy Edmonds(Previously Nights/Afternoons on WXXC from 10AM to 2PM, Phil (Also nights on WXXC) in the evenings (2-7PM) and CMT Live With Cody Allen from 7PM to Midnight.


Brett Manning

In 2008 Manning was featured as a vocal coach and judge on CMT's television talent search, Can You Duet.

Christopher Hines

He became an international correspondent reporting from Asia and the Middle East, and later on produced news and cultural shows for CNN, as well as entertainment news shows for VH1, MTV, CMT and E! including "E! True Hollywood Story" (THS).

CMT Cross Country

CMT Cross Country is a television show broadcast on Country Music Television and Palladia that pairs two country music artists together.

CMT Outlaws

CMT Outlaws was an annual concert featuring country music's outlaws.

Keith, whose career highlights include 10 platinum albums, 21 chart-topping singles and sales of more than 25 million albums, adds his own brand of rabble-rousing to CMT Outlaws.

Country Music Television

The very first video clip to air on CMT was a performance clip of country music legend Faron Young's classic 1971 hit, "It's Four in the Morning".

On April 4, 2012, CMT announced its first cartoon series, Bounty Hunters, featuring the voices of Jeff Foxworthy, Larry the Cable Guy and Bill Engvall who also serve as executive producers.

Curb Event Center

On April 10, 2006, the arena hosted the nationally televised CMT Music Awards for the first time and in September of 2011 featured special guest and keynote speaker Dr. Maya Angelou in celebration of its 10th Annual Humanities Symposium.

Honky Tonk Angels

The album had been a long-rumored project between the country singers for over a decade and received much publicity and acclaim upon its release, although its only single release, a remake of the longtime country female vocalist staple "Silver Threads and Golden Needles", barely dented the charts (its accompanying video, however, received heavy rotation from CMT and TNN).

Honky Tonk Truth

The music video premiered on CMT in August, 1997 and featured NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt.

JSTV

Later on 3 June 1990, it started using transponder 24 on Astra 1B, at frequency 11.567 MHz for 11 hours a day, using the Videocrypt II encryption (time-sharing with The Children's Channel and later with CMT Europe).

Kelli Finglass

She currently serves as an executive producer for CMT's hit series Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team.

She appears in and is an executive producer of the CMT reality series Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team.

Meredith McCoy

McCoy was also featured in the award winning Kenny Chesney Video "There Goes My Life", which won CMT's Flame Worthy Male Video of the Year for 2004.

My Big Redneck Wedding

Deanna Goodson in her review, "CMT Should Ditch This Redneck Getting Hitched Schtick" (14 January 2008), states: "We’re not sure why we sat down to watch “My Big Redneck Wedding” on CMT. This parody of a TV series premiered on Friday, January 11 at 8:30 pm CST. Hosted by Tom Arnold – oh yes – the thrice-wed 'star' of small and big screen himself – Redneck Wedding is one big Jeff Foxworthy joke come to life."

Rita Verreos

Verreos competed in San Antonio magazine Conexión's 2005 "Hottest Latina" contest, placing as second runner-up, and in the CMT reality television program The Ultimate Coyote Ugly Search.

Shane Theriot

Theriot has written music and jingles for MTV, Discovery Channel, A&E, CMT, VH1 and ESPN, including for the shows Sons of Guns and Anthony Bourdain's The Layover.

The Buckaroos

In 2005, CMT named the Buckaroos No. 2 on its list of the 20 Greatest Country Music Bands.

Three Chords from the Truth

Three Chords from the Truth is a Canadian television series created by Steve Cochrane, Phyllis Ellis and Adriana Maggs that aired on the Canadian CMT network in 2009, and was also available on Movie Central.

TNN Motor Sports/TNN Sports

Also by 1995, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, who at the time owned the CBS networks and had an existing relationship with TNN through its Group W division, purchased TNN and its sister network CMT outright to form CBS Cable, along with a short-lived startup network entitled Eye On People.


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