CMT
CMT (Country Music Television) is an American television network focused on country music and country lifestyle programming. Owned by Paramount, it broadcasts original shows and series and offers its content for streaming on Paramount+.www.cmt.com
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Oct 29, 2026
Dave InnisGUEST
Oh, yeah.
Dave InnisGUEST
But CMT was brand new.
Dave InnisGUEST
Hey, before I start playing again, I did want to say I'm going to be performing at Blaine's.
Zack OwenHOST
Great place.
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Nick Cannon and Incredible Productions has hired more black people for Viacom than every other show on Viacom combined.
speaker_10SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That's MTV, VH1, BET, Country Music Television, All of Viacom Enterprises combined, and I think Viacom is now merged with CBS.
speaker_10SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So all the CBS shows, too, because he got Masked Singer.
speaker_10SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Mm-hmm.
Todd LewisGUEST
So here is the crazy one.
Todd LewisGUEST
So after doing juiced, I did some legitimate productions and I did a show called trick my truck on CMT.
Todd LewisGUEST
I remember the show.
Todd LewisGUEST
We made over big rig trucks for deserving truck drivers.
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Todd LewisGUEST
You know what they do? They go on their phone and they watch TV.
Todd LewisGUEST
You don't think that if that show came up, they wouldn't watch it? When we did Trick My Truck, it was the highest...
Todd LewisGUEST
premiere of any other show they've ever had of all time yeah on CMT now the network's gone but yeah it was the highest premiere they've ever had because there was no content for drivers and for the drivers families and because it was like heartfelt and fun and like formulaic people just watched it
Jamie KennedyHOST
like so much stuff you just said in these networks they're gone
Randy BachmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And they really promoted it.
Randy BachmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And CMT, Country Music Television, and TNN are the only ones still playing videos of bands.
Randy BachmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And they're still selling CDs down there.
Randy BachmanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's fantastic.
Spartan339HOST
as cable television expanded during the same era major networks began hiring specific voice actors to establish their overall brand identity comedy central brought stacker in as a primary network voice during its major growth growth phase through about 1990s and 2000s around there his dry delivery suited the channel's promotional spots and comedy specials.
Spartan339HOST
Simultaneously, Country Music Television, known as CMT, hired Stacker for station branding.
Spartan339HOST
He also did special event promotions and music countdown shows He did a lot of things, and moving between daytime television and cable comedy and country music networks require distinct shifts in tone, and Stacker handled all of them out of Chicago recording bills, and he did a really, really good job with it.
Spartan339HOST
In 1998, advertising agency DDB Chicago created a radio campaign for Bud Light titled Real American Heroes.
Hunter StairHOST
It's called Cover of the Music City News.
Hunter StairHOST
The now defunct Music City News was a country-based publication out of Nashville who started the Country Music Awards, which lives on today as the CMT Music Awards.
Hunter StairHOST
Not the
JD RyznarHOST
CMAs, but the CMT? Maybe it's the CMA.
JD RyznarHOST
The CMA Music Awards.
JD RyznarHOST
Anyway,
Nina CardonaHOST
Gaylord purchased the entire complex off of Briley Parkway and the suite of Opry businesses for $240 million.
Nina CardonaHOST
Less than a decade later, Gaylord bought the other major country music TV outlet, CMT.
Nina CardonaHOST
That was in 1991, and that's roughly the time when Edward Gaylord retired, and his last name truly took on a life of its own in Nashville.
Nina CardonaHOST
Gaylord Entertainment was spun off from the family's publishing business to be its own company.
Carly PearceGUEST
I use this example that I've gotten brave enough to talk about, uh, because I think it's important.
Carly PearceGUEST
Um, a couple of years ago, I won a CMT award for my duet with Chris Stapleton.
Carly PearceGUEST
Well, that was like, my dream was to sing with Chris Stapleton, the greatest male singer ever in my head.
Anthony MasonHOST
Yeah.
Brian IvesGUEST
...
Brian IvesGUEST
CMT.
Raegan MedgieHOST
CMT.
Brian IvesGUEST
Yeah, I mean, but I, you know, I was like, VH1, whenever I would be in the elevator and pass through their floor, there was, like, f- like, black-and-white photos of, like, Lenny Kravitz and Sheryl Crow and, like-
Raegan MedgieHOST
Oh
Jedd HughesGUEST
I'm playing on my first gigs on the Grand Ole Opry with Patti Loveless.
Jedd HughesGUEST
And it was televised back then when CMT used to televise the Opry.
Jedd HughesGUEST
So there I was.
Jedd HughesGUEST
playing the Grand Ole Opry with, you know, this beautiful old Gibson Lloyd Lower mandolin, singing with Patti Loveless.
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