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…
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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 theCMA 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…
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