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4 unusual facts about Country Music Television


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.

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.


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.

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).

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).

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.

Rossi Morreale

In 2008, Morreale hosted season one of the Country Music Television reality TV series Can You Duet, a talent search for undiscovered country music duets.

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.


see also

Country Sunshine

Country Sunshine With Myrna Lorrie, a Canadian country music television miniseries

MWL

CMT Most Wanted Live, a country music video countdown show which aired on Country Music Television from 201-2004

Sir Robert Charles Griggs

He began his career in the 1950s as a performer on the country music television show, "Town Hall Party."