(January
16th, 2012. - www.tvview.tv)
The 47TH
ANNUAL ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS, “Country Music’s Party of
the Year®” honoring country music’s best and introducing
the industry’s hottest emerging talent, will be broadcast LIVE from
the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday, April 1
(8:00-11:00PM live ET/delayed PT) on the CBS Television Network. The
show, produced by dick clark productions, will be hosted for the second
consecutive year by Reba and Blake Shelton.
In addition, the 2ND ANNUAL ACM FAN JAM, hosted by Zac Brown
Band, will take place at the Mandalay Bay Events Center on Sunday,
April 1. This live remote location gives country music lovers the
ultimate fan-pass to be part of the “47th Annual Academy of
Country Music Awards.” Throughout the three-hour Awards telecast
at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, there will be live “ACM Fan Jam”
performances, via remote, from the Mandalay Bay Events Center by Zac
Brown Band and other top-tier music acts, to be announced at a later
date. The inaugural “ACM Fan Jam” was hosted by Sugarland in
2011.
ACM PRESENTS: LIONEL RICHIE AND FRIENDS – A LIFETIME OF HITS, is an
all-star concert special to be taped Monday, April 2 at the MGM Grand
Garden Arena to air later on CBS. This country collaboration with
the legendary Lionel Richie, featuring duets from his upcoming album Tuskeegee,
will include some of Richie’s greatest hits performed by Jason Aldean,
The Band Perry, Kenny Chesney, Lady Antebellum, Martina McBride, Rascal
Flatts, Kenny Rogers and many more. Ticket sales will benefit ACM
Lifting Lives, which works to improve lives through music.
Once again, CBS RADIO's 13 iconic country music stations in major
markets across the country will support the CBS Television Network's
broadcast of the ACM Awards through a variety of programming initiatives
on-air, online and on-site.
