2014 CMA Awards Nominations Video Highlights Package Featuring Final Nominees And Artist Interviews To Be Serviced Wednesday, Sept. 3

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Sep 02, 2014, 09:00 ET

NASHVILLE, Sept. 2, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The final nominees for "The 48th Annual CMA Awards" will be announced on Wednesday, Sept. 3 by Little Big Town and Darius Rucker live from New York. A video highlights package featuring the announcements as well as interviews and music video clips will be released via satellite Wednesday, Sept. 3 (3:00 PM/ET; 2:00 PM/CT). In addition, the footage will also be made available via FTP download.

Little Big Town and Rucker will announce the final nominees in five CMA Awards categories live from the "Good Morning America" studios on the ABC Television Network. The announcement will air in the 8:30 AM half-hour segment (all time zones) of the morning news program. Following the announcement, at 10:00 AM/ET, they will head to the Best Buy Theater in Times Square to recap the nominees previously announced and reveal the finalists in the remaining seven categories.

The announcement of the final nominees leads up to "Country Music's Biggest Night™." Hosted for the seventh time by Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood, "The 48th Annual CMA Awards" airs live Wednesday, Nov. 5 (8:00-11:00 PM/ET) from the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville on ABC.

For questions or for help if having difficulty accessing the VNR, please contact Scott Sklarin with Sklarin Communications at (917) 929-5564. For questions regarding the FTP download, please call (954) 838-0900, ext. 1.

The satellite coordinates for the CMA Awards Nominees Video Highlights Package are listed below:

CMA AWARDS NOMINEES VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS PACKAGE
SATELLITE COORDINATES:
Wednesday, Sept. 3
3:00-3:30 PM/ET (2:00-2:30 PM/CT)
GALAXY 17 (KU) Digital
Transponder 13 – Ch A
9 MHz
Downlink Frequency: 11946.5 (H)
FEC: ¾
Symbol Rate: 6.1113

FTP DOWNLOAD SITE:
http://www.vistaworldlink.com/CMA/

SOURCE Country Music Association