2000 CMA Broadcast Awards Winners Notified by CMA Awards Nominee Brad Paisley; Denver Station Is First Time Winner, Chattanooga Station Wins Record Sixth Time.Entertainment Editors NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Sept. 11, 2000 Arista/Nashville artist Brad Paisley was the surprise guest on several Country radio morning shows Friday to announce the winners of the 2000 CMA CMA - Concert Multithread Architecture from DEC. Broadcast Awards. The Broadcast Personality of the Year and Station of the Year winners will be recognized during "The 34th Annual CMA Awards" Wednesday, Oct. 4 (8:00-11:00 PM, EDT EDT abbr. Eastern Daylight Time EDT Eastern Daylight Time EDT n abbr (US) (= Eastern Daylight Time) → hora de verano de Nueva York EDT ) live from the Grand Ole Opry Grand Ole Opry, weekly American radio program featuring live country and western music. The nation's oldest continuous radio show, it was first broadcast in 1925 on Nashville's WSM as an amateur showcase. in Nashville, Tenn., on the CBS Television Network CBS Television Network Major U.S. broadcasting company and network. It began in 1928 as the Columbia Broadcasting System, a small radio network directed by William S. Paley. . Paisley made the calls from the CMA offices on Music Row. "It's is great to be part of making a memory for someone," Paisley says. "How often does it happen in life that you can be part of something like this - when someone hears for the first time that they won CMA Broadcast Personality of the Year or you get to tell a program director that they are the Station of the Year? It was a fun call to make." Paisley announced the Broadcast Awards finalists Aug. 1 at the press conference announcing the CMA Awards nominees. Paisley also received six CMA Awards nominations at the announcements, including Male Vocalist, Horizon Award, Album, Single, Song and Music Video of the Year. Paisley called the CMA Personality and Station of the Year winners on the stations' studio hotlines with no advance notice, and got reactions ranging from tears to laughter. "This was a really exciting way to surprise our Broadcast Winners with the news," says Ed Benson, CMA Executive Director. "Because we were able to involve the listeners in the process and honor these hard-working professionals and exceptional stations in their home markets." Winners were selected in four categories (Small Market, Medium Market, Large Market and Major Market) for the Personality of the Year and Station of the Year. The categories are established by market size based on Arbitron rankings. All interested full-time, on-air Country personalities and radio stations in the US and Canada were eligible to enter. A panel of broadcast professionals judged the entries. The 2000 CMA Broadcast Award Winners are: BROADCAST PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR Major Market - Danny Wright Danny Wright is a Seattle, Washington-based radio personality, and current host of "Wright All Night" on the Jones Radio Networks. The majority of his career and success was in the Cleveland, Ohio market, most notably at WGCL, where he was a Top-40 disc jockey known as - WGAR, Cleveland, Ohio Large Market - Angie Ward - WTQR, Greensboro, North Carolina “Greensboro” redirects here. For other uses, see Greensboro (disambiguation). Greensboro, North Carolina (IPA: [ɡɹiːnsbʌɹəʊ]) is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Medium Market - Sean & Richie - WGNA WGNA Willow Glen Neighborhood Association (San Jose, CA) WGNA WideBand Gigabit Networking Alliance WGNA Working Group on Nuclear Activities (EC Joint Research Centre) WGNA Westchester Gardens Neighborhood Association , Albany, New York For other uses, see Albany. Albany is the capital of the State of New York and the county seat of Albany County. Albany lies 136 miles (219 km) north of New York City, and slightly to the south of the juncture of the Mohawk and Hudson Rivers. Small Market - Lynn Sharpe - WUSY, Chattanooga, TN RADIO STATION OF THE YEAR Major Market - KYGO - Denver, Colorado Large Market - WFMS WfMS Workflow Management System WFMS Workforce Management System - Indianapolis, Indiana Medium Market - WIVK - Knoxville, Tennessee Small Market - WUSY - Chattanooga, Tennessee This is the first CMA Station of the Year win for KYGO/Denver, after being nominated for the past five years. WFMS/Indianapolis has been nominated seven times since 1992 and won the Large Market Station of the Year previously in 1997. This is the third Station of the Year win for WIVK/Knoxville in the Medium Market category. WUSY/Chattanooga sets a record taking home the Small Market Station of the Year Award for the sixth consecutive time. Winners for Broadcast Personality of the Year may only win once in a market. The winning entries will be posted on CMA's official website www.CMAawards.com in the near future. Visit us on the Internet at www.CMAWorld.com or www.CMAawards.com |
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