Bill Engvall will host the 2009 CMT Music Awards, airing June 16 on CMT and CMT.com. The awards show will feature performances by Trace Adkins, Jason Aldean, Dierks Bentley, Toby Keith, Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts, Sugarland, Taylor Swift, Keith Urban and Def Leppard. Fans can vote for their favorites...
Dish Network has made an agreement to add HD feeds for several of MTV Networks’ and BET Networks’ channels to its roster. CMT, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Spike TV and VH1 now are available in HD at no additional cost to Dish customers with the Classic Bronze 100 HD and above package. Classic Silver...
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CMT will premiere eight episodes of “Runnin’ Wild … From Ted Nugent” in August. The competition series teaches people how to survive in the wild through endurance challenges created by Mr. Nugent and his son Rocco. The contestants then must evade the Nugents as they try to hunt the contestants down....
Brian Philips, general manager and executive vice president of Viacom’s CMT, has been promoted to president of the country music network. Philips, who has run the network since 2001, will continue to lead programming and marketing efforts as well as boosting the presence of CMT.com, where 100 million...
Cable network CMT has ordered eight episodes of “World’s Strictest Parents.” The one-hour show from Shed Media U.S. is expected to premiere in April alongside new episodes of “Nanny 911.” Each episode finds two unruly teens from different families attempting to adapt to strict host parents. The series...
CMT is ordering eight additional episodes of “Nanny 911” from producer Granada America, putting the former Fox series back into production, the two companies announced today. “Nanny” is currently airing in repeats during daytime on CMT after having been on Fox for three seasons. The new episodes are...
January may turn out to be the cruelest month for TV types this year, with a crush of broadcast and cable premieres threatening to forever change the rules of midseason launches. Networks, particularly on the broadcast side, have long considered the winter months somewhat safer havens for debuting shows...
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Summer is usually a strong season for cable networks, but this year several networks endured a rocky third quarter. With cable drawing viewers away from the broadcast networks, most quarters end with a long list of cable networks touting new ratings records. But during the third quarter this year, G4...