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

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LOS ANGELES, November 12, 2009 - Premiere Radio Networks welcomed numerous stars to its CMA Awards Radio Remote Broadcast that leads up to "The 43rd Annual CMA Awards." Live from Nashville, Keith Urban, Reba McEntire, Taylor Swift and Tim McGraw 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, WKLB-Boston, KMPS-Seattle, KILT-Houston, WPOC-Baltimore, KBWF-San Francisco, KNIX-Phoenix, WSIX-Nashville and WUBL-Atlanta.

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

The CMA Awards Preview, hosted by Reba McEntire, aired in advance of "The 43rd Annual CMA Awards." The four-hour special featured music and interviews with leading Award nominees. For the Red Carpet Reports, Larry Morgan interviewed numerous celebrities and nominees such as Martina McBride, Carrie Underwood and Kellie Pickler.

The CMA Post Show included round-up interviews conducted by Craig Morgan and Larry Morgan with Award winners like Taylor Swift, Sugarland, Darius Rucker, Brad Paisley and others.

This is the 18th consecutive year that Premiere Radio has partnered with the Country Music Association to provide radio programming in conjunction with the CMA Awards.

Download: CMA Awards Remote Photos (.doc)

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, Sean Hannity, Elvis Duran, Jason Lewis, Randi Rhodes 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. More than 6,000 music industry professionals and companies from around the globe are members of CMA. 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.