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Roy Clark, the Grammy-winning country music singer-guitarist who co-hosted the long-running sketch/variety series Hee Haw with Buck Owens, died today of pneumonia complications at his home in Tulsa, OK. He was 85. CBS launched Hee Haw in summer 1969 as country music’s answer to Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In. Weaving…

Clifford Dektar, a longtime public relations man who worked with Hee Haw, ABC Sports and others and was a governor of the TV Academy, has died. He was 90. His son Dan said Dektar died February 22. After graduating from USC and serving in the Army during World War II, the L.A. native was part of the original staff of…

Blake Shelton, the self-described “Justin Bieber of country music (I’m just a trouble-making cutie),” was both host and musical guest, leaving Shelton open to some ‘SNL’ Hee-Haw-style snarkery in the opening monologue. Nashville ain’t New York, it would…