Country Music's Biggest Stars Attend Premiere Networks' CMA Awards Radio Remote Broadcast

LOS ANGELES, November 10, 2011 -- Premiere Networks welcomed numerous stars to its official CMA Awards Radio Remote Broadcast leading up to "The 45th Annual CMA Awards." Live from Nashville, Taylor Swift, The Band Perry, Rascal Flatts, Vince Gill, Faith Hill, Martina McBride, Lady Antebellum, Blake Shelton, Miranda Lambert, and many other Country Music stars visited nearly 50 of the top Country radio stations from across the nation. Participating stations included KKGO-Los Angeles, WXTU-Philadelphia, KYGO-Denver, WPOC-Baltimore, KNIX-Phoenix, KEEY-Minneapolis and WSIX-Nashville.

Premiere once again partnered with Polycom®, the global leader in standards-based unified communications (UC) solutions for telepresence, video and voice to utilize its cutting edge Polycom RealPresence solutions to record all remote broadcast interviews, and make them available for stations to download and post on their station's website. Country radio stations participating in Premiere's annual radio remote broadcast also leveraged Polycom's video and telepresence solutions to enable virtual participation in the remote broadcast from Nashville Nov. 6 - 8. This innovative technology allowed stations to interview Country Music's biggest stars via live video, thus minimizing on-site staff to a single representative.

In addition to the remote broadcast, Premiere's comprehensive CMA programming package also included the CMA Awards Preview, Red Carpet Reports andCMA Post Show. The CMA Awards Preview Special hosted by Lady Antebellum aired in advance of "The 45th Annual CMA Awards." The four-hour special featured music and interviews with leading Awards nominees. For the Red Carpet Reports, Premiere Networks personality Larry Morgan interviewed numerous celebrities and nominees. The CMA Post Show included round-up interviews conducted by Morgan and UMG Nashville recording artist Laura Bell Bundy with Award winners.
This is the 20th consecutive year that Premiere Networks has partnered with the Country Music Association to provide radio programming in conjunction with the CMA Awards. This year, Premiere's CMA

Awards programming reached 28.5 million listeners (Persons 12+) -- source: Arbitron Nationwide Spring 2011. Sponsors of the remote and/or radio package included OneMain Financial, Allstate, Advance Auto Parts, 5-Hour Energy and Green Mountain Coffee.

Below are some of Country music's biggest stars as they attended Premiere Networks' 20th annual CMA Awards radio remote broadcast in Nashville:

Faith Hill talks to The Big D and Bubba Show...

Pictured left to right: Bubba, Faith Hill and Big D

Taylor Swift visits Shotgun Jaxon and Roger Carson of 106.5 The Wolf/WDAF-FM in Kansas City...

Pictured left to right: Shotgun Jaxon, Taylor Swift and Roger Carson

About Premiere Networks
Premiere Networks, Inc., a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications, syndicates 90 radio programs and services to more than 5,000 radio affiliations and reaches over 190 million listeners weekly. Premiere is the number one audio content provider in the country and features the following personalities: Rush Limbaugh, Jim Rome, Ryan Seacrest, Glenn Beck, Bob & Tom, Delilah, Steve Harvey, Blair Garner, George Noory, John Boy and Billy, Big Tigger, Sean Hannity, Elvis Duran, Randi Rhodes, Nikki Sixx, Kane, Andy Dean and others. For more information, please visit www.PremiereRadio.com or www.facebook.com/PremiereRadio.

About the Country Music Association
Founded in 1958, the Country Music Association was the first trade organization formed to promote a type of music. More than 6,000 music industry professionals and companies from around the globe are members of CMA. The organization's objectives are to advance the growth of Country Music around the world and to demonstrate it as a viable medium to advertisers, consumers, and the media through CMA's core initiatives -- CMA Music Festival and the CMA Awards.

Press Contact:
Rachel Nelson
818-461-8057