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First of all, disclaimer: I too only have one vote per category, and yes I voted…and no I'm not revealing how I voted. With that said, I'm going to lay out my Top 20 nominated videos that I think were especially noteworthy this year. Performance of the Year First and foremost, and without any hesitation, I want to say that Martina McBride doing "A Broken Wing" with Train was among the most spiritual moments I've ever witnessed live I was indeed in the audience. If you haven't seen this video yet, you may consider this an overstatement. Trust me it's not. Frankly, it was simply one of those covers that re-invented an already amazing song and took it all the way to 11 excuse the spinal tap reference please. Filmed on Loretta's ranch, it was done right, tastefully, and certainly made a lot of folks go out and re-rent the movie bio-pic with Sissy Spacek I did. This is Jason's year with 4 Noms and he earned it. I greet every breakthrough artist on Top 20 as if I were their own manager. I feel slighted when they don't immediately hit 1 on the charts and I feel like I'm part of their team each time they do.
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Launched on March 5, as Country Music Television , CMT was the first nationally available channel devoted to country music and country music videos , with its programming also including concerts, specials, and biographies of country music stars. Over time, the network's programming expanded to incorporate original lifestyle and reality programming while downplaying its focus on country music. As of January , approximately 92 million U. Daniels also served as the program director and the first president of the network. CT, beating its chief competitor, TNN , to air by two days. CMT also experienced a migration of its mainline operations from Nashville to New York although their Nashville office building was kept as a secondary operation , and experienced a format change; being modeled after sister networks MTV and VH1 to include series and movies, in addition to music videos. By , the channel was available in more than 83 million homes. CMT also announced that it would air Trinity , a episode "workplace docu-comedy" that follows the police force in a small Texas town. On June 10, , CMT announced that they would pick up the primetime network series Nashville after ABC 's cancellation of the series, and renewed the series for a fifth full season of 22 episodes; it will continue to be streamed beginning the day after an episode's first airing on Hulu. In , as part of Viacom's restructuring plans, CMT would begin a transition back to unscripted programming.
It showcases country music videos , using the same 8-hour programming wheel schedule as its sister networks. In , the network discontinued specific video blocks due to that year's cutbacks throughout Viacom, including music video programmers. Currently, the network offers an eight-hour wheel of videos, all under the EPG -only title of CMT Music with little theming of video blocks. As Pure Country, the network featured branded blocks of programming sub-divided by genres and periods of time. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Comcast Cable forum notification. Archived from the original on 29 January
