CMA-Mania Tonight!
• iHeartCountry and Premiere Networks are offering unprecedented, multiplatform coverage of tonight’s 51st Annual CMA Awards, hosted for the 10th straight year by Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood. Leading up to the big broadcast, all 132 iHeartCountry stations have been featuring interviews with Country music’s biggest stars while the stations’ digital and social platforms are supporting the event with behind-the-scenes stories, photos and videos from the red carpet and backstage at the Awards with all the winners and presenters.
For the first time this year, iHeartCountry will present a Facebook Live broadcast of the red carpet arrivals hosted by award-winning radio personality and CMT After MidNite host Cody Alan, who kicks off the broadcast at 6pm ET/5pm CT as all the nominees and presenters, including iHeartMedia’s Bobby Bones, head into the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville. Premiere Networks will also provide a live radio simulcast of the ABC-TV telecast across nearly 80 iHeartCountry radio stations nationwide from 8-11pm ET.
The 51st Annual CMA Awards will open with a collaboration between Keith Urban, Eric Church, Lady Antebellum and Darius Rucker. Other collaborations will feature Tim McGraw & Faith Hill, Kelsea Ballerini & Reba McEntire, Dierks Bentley & Rascal Flatts, Maren Morris & Niall Horan, Brad Paisley & Kane Brown, and performances from Garth Brooks, Brothers Osborne, Luke Bryan, Alan Jackson, Miranda Lambert, Little Big Town, Old Dominion, Jon Pardi, P!NK, Chris Stapleton, Thomas Rhett and Carrie Underwood.
