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EXCLUSIVE: CMT is bringing back The Last Cowboy – Taylor Sheridan’s competition series — for a third season. It returns November 18th at 10pm ET. The Last Cowboy takes an inside look at the lives of today's cowboys and cowgirls as they compete in the sport of horse reining – a Western-based…

The country music community gathered today at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville to remember one of their own. As  might be expected, the best way to honor and memorialize one of the genre’s greatest hitmakers was found in song. Naomi Judd: A River of Time was carried live and commercial-free on CMT. “It’s so weird…

Updated, 5:33 p.m.: Brad Paisley, Carly Pearce, and Jamey Johnson have signed up to perform at the memorial service for five-time Grammy winner Naomi Judd, with Bette Midler, Reba McEntire and Reese Witherspoon being enlisted to deliver special messages, and Judd’s husband Larry Strickland being added to the list of…

EXCLUSIVE: Headspace, a global leader in mindfulness and meditation, announced today the promotion of Morgan Selzer to Chief Content and Studios Officer. Selzer will be responsible for overseeing all content strategy and production and that live both inside and outside of the mindfulness app, along with overseeing all…

Taylor Sheridan's reality series The Last Cowboy returns for its second season with a promo that highlights the "magic of the west" and the "rugged individuality" that it represents, according to the show's EP. The series is moving from Paramount Network to CMT for its second season launching on November 12 and the…

EXCLUSIVE: The Last Cowboy, the unscripted series hatched by Yellowstone co-creator Taylor Sheridan, is moving from the Paramount Network to CMT. CMT has set November 12 as the premiere date for the second season. The show will air beginning November 12 at 8 PM ET/PT. The Last Cowboy is an inside look at real-life…

UPDATED, 7 AM: CBS has set Sunday, April 3, 2022 for its inaugural broadcast of the CMT Music Awards. The ceremony will air live from Nashville from 8-11 PM ET/delayed PT, CBS said Thursday. The move follows ViacomCBS’ recent announcement that it was moving the annual country music awards show from cabler CMT to its…

EXCLUSIVE: The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders are back and ready to try out on CMT. The ViacomCBS cable network has renewed Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team for Season 16. The network's longest-running show will return on Friday September 16 at 9pm, in its traditional timeslot, having seen its Covid-focused…

UPDATE, with ACM statement CMT, the Viacom-owned country music television channel, is removing top-selling singer Morgan Wallen from all platforms in response to the star’s video-captured use of an ethnic slur. In a statement posted on social media today, CMT wrote: “After learning of Morgan Wallen's racial slur late…

EXCLUSIVE: Coming off its highest-rated season in franchise history, CMT has renewed Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team for a 15th season, premiering later this fall. The series, which launched in 2006, continues to be a huge ratings driver for CMT. Last summer’s Season 14 was up 23% in the P18-49 demo…

A special celebrating the hit-filled work of country and pop music giant Kenny Rogers, who died in late March, will air on CMT. The show bows on Wednesday, April 8 at 8 PM ET/PT on CMT and will encore on MTV Live at 8:00 PM ET/PT on April 10 and again on CMT at 12:00 PM ET/PT on April 11. The tribute will feature…

CMT passed something like its own ERA today, pledging to evenly split the video airtime on its country music channels between female and male artists. The previous split was 40/60, favoring the men. "Time is really up in 2020,” said Leslie Fram, SVP of Music & Talent, CMT, in a statement. “All the talk around what can…