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Carrie Underwood will host the 53rd Annual CMA Awards in November, with special guest hosts Reba McEntire and Dolly Parton in a celebration of legendary women of country music. The Country Music Association made the announcement today. The awards show broadcasts live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday…

ABC's Country Music Association Awards dominated Wednesday night, jumping from last year's record-low results. The long-running music franchise popped 10% to a 3.2 rating among viewers ages 18-49.  And the broadcast's 14.29 million total viewers was up 14% compared with last year's 12.5 mil. In fairness, last year's CM…

The 51st annual Country Music Association Awards kicked off with a tribute to the victims of last month’s Las Vegas tragedy. Darius Rucker led an all-star group of country superstars in a rendition of his Hootie and the Blowfish hit “Hold My Hand.” On stage with him was a who’s-who of the country world including Keith…

A backlash has led the Country Music Association to rescind its guidelines telling journalists not to ask about the Las Vegas shooting when interviewing talent at next week’s CMA Awards. “CMA apologizes for the recently distributed restrictions in the CMA Awards media guidelines, which have since been lifted,” the…

UPDATED, 10:21 AM: There are a lot of numbers in play with last night’s World Series Game 7 victory by the Chicago Cubs over the Cleveland Indians. One of the big ones: It is the first time the Windy City’s oldest team has won a baseball championship in a 108 years. Here’s another: Game 7 was watched by 40.045 million…

UPDATED with full video: “Bonnie Raitt looks like the aunt who would have a few too many at your mom's birthday party and try to fight your dad,” Raitt read last night during the Mean Tweets segment of Jimmy Kimmel Live that immediately followed ABC’s broadcast of the 50th Annual CMA Awards. JKL broadcast live from…

It was a roller coaster of a battle, and then the rain came to hit the pause button for a while, but in the end last night, the Chicago Cubs won Game 7 of the 2016 World Series over the Cleveland Indians 8-7 in 10 innings to take home their first baseball championship since 1908. The thrilling end of the Cubs' long…

Back after a week off due to the World Series, Empire (4.6/14) last night dealt with a kidnapping and faced the 2015 CMA Awards (3.8/12) over on ABC. Even with the increased competition from the Nashville-based show, Fox’s hip-hop drama saw a dip of just 4% from its October 21 episode in adults 18-49. That last…

Jimmy Kimmel again will appear simultaneously in Nashville and Los Angeles to fete the CMA Awards during a special Jimmy Kimmel Live! broadcast Wednesday night. Through the miracle of modern holography, Kimmel will, for a second consecutive year, host Jimmy Kimmel Live: After The CMA Awards from two cities at the same…

The two-step topped the zombie lurch in this week’s Twitter TV ratings, as the CMA Awards on ABC danced all over the grave of AMC’s ratings king The Walking Dead. On the sports side of Nielsen‘s weekly toting up of TV social-media reach, it was almost all NFL again, now that baseball has wrapped its season, and the NBA…

They call it country music’s biggest night and rare appearances by legends Loretta Lynn and Garth Brooks on Wednesday on the CMA Awards (4.5/14 ) certainly aimed to meet the hype. With references to Ebola and an absent Taylor Swift plus a Jimmy Kimmel hologram, Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley co-hosted the 3-hour…

Jimmy Kimmel is looking to capitalize on his network’s broadcast of the CMA Awards, the same way he has with the Oscars. The late-night host said today that his November 5 show, following ABC’s airing of the music trophy show, will feature Hologram Kimmel appearing on the CMAs stage in Nashville — as well as a…