CMA Fever: It’s Fairly Contagious!
• Country music stars Lauren Alaina and Dustin Lynch will host Entercom’s exclusive 51st Annual CMA Awards’ Red Carpet Countdown. The multi-platform programming will kick-off this Sunday, November 5 and run through Friday, November 10 live from Nashville and will be broadcast across all of Entercom’s Country stations, websites, apps and social media platforms. Entercom stations will air a one-hour red carpet show that immediately precedes the televised CMA Awards beginning at 7pm ET on Wednesday, November 8.
“Lauren and Dustin are two of Country music’s brightest stars and are the perfect pair to host our special programming feature — counting down to Country music’s biggest night,” said Pat Paxton, President of Programming, Entercom. “The CMA Awards‘ stage has been the home to some of the most iconic moments in music history and we’re thrilled to offer our listeners behind-the-scenes access across our audio and digital platforms.”
Participating stations include: WPAW (The Wolf 93.1)/Greensboro, WDAF (The Wolf 106.5)/Kansas City, WLFP (The Wolf 94.1)/Memphis, KWJJ (The Wolf 99.5)/Portland, OR, KKWF (The Wolf 100.7)/Seattle, WGGY (Froggy 101)/Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, WBEE/Rochester, NY and KSON/San Diego.
• In a related story, Sam Alex, host of Townsquare Media’s Taste of Country Nights will lead Taste of Country‘s CMA Awards live stream broadcast for the third consecutive year, this time accompanied by a very special co-host — Arista Nashville/RCA Records Cam (“Burning House,” “Diane”) will grace this year’s proceedings, which will be carried on YouTube Live and Facebook Live.
The fun starts at 5pm CT on Wednesday, Nov. 8. Taste Of Country is distributed by Compass Media Networks.
