Meet Your 2025 CMA Broadcast Award Winners!
• The Country Music Association (CMA) just announced the recipients of the 2025 CMA Broadcast Awards, one of Country radio’s highest honors. Earlier this morning, CMA New Artist of the Year nominee Tucker Wetmore personally surprised radio stations and broadcast personalities nationwide with one-on-one calls to share the exciting news.
CMA BROADCAST PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR:
Weekly National: Country Countdown USA with Lon Helton (Lon Helton) — LH Productions
Daily National: The Rob and Holly Show (Rob Stone & Holly Hutton) — Audacy
Major Market: Chris Carr & Company (Chris Carr, Sam Sansevere, and Michael “Dubs” Wilczynski) — KEEY/Minneapolis-St. Paul
Large Market: The Q Morning Crew w/ Mike & Amanda (Mike Wheless & Amanda Daughtry) — WQDR/Raleigh-Durham, NC
Medium Market: Mo & StyckMan (Melissa “Mo” Wagner & Greg “StyckMan” Owens) — WUSY/Chattanooga, TN
Small Market: Ben & Arnie (Ben Butler & Arnie Andrews) — WCOW/La Crosse, WI
CMA RADIO STATION OF THE YEAR:
Major Market: KKBQ/Houston
Large Market: WUBE/Cincinnati
Medium Market: WIVK/Knoxville, TN
Small Market: WXBQ/Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA
The CMA Broadcast Award categories are established by market size based on population as ranked by Nielsen. Entries for Broadcast Personality of the Year are judged on aircheck, ratings, community involvement and biographical and impact information. Candidates for Radio Station of the Year are judged on aircheck, ratings, community involvement and leadership and impact information.
Any full-time, on-air broadcast personalities and radio stations in the United States and Canada were eligible to submit entries, regardless of CMA membership status. The entries are judged by a panel of distinguished broadcast professionals, representing all market sizes and regions.
CMA Broadcast Awards winners are not eligible to enter the same award category in consecutive years; therefore, those who received trophies in 2024 were not eligible in 2025.
The 59th Annual CMA Awards, hosted by Lainey Wilson will air live from Bridgestone Arena in Nashville Wednesday, Nov. 19 at 8/7c on ABC. Winners of the CMA Broadcast Awards will also be recognized during the Pre-Telecast Ceremony, prior to the live primetime show.
