Quiz time. Of all of the following music awards show, which one has the best ratings:
a) American Music Awards
b) The Grammy Awards
c) The CMA Awards (or)
d) The MTV Video Music Awards
If you answered a, b or d, you probably think American Bandstand is still on. If you answered c grab your boots and scoot into your living room and get ready for the 40th Annual Country Music Awards tonight at 8 (est) on ABC-TV...
With the show in New York last November, the CMA's finished #10 in Nielsen ratings for the week with more than 36 million viewers, ranking behind only the Academy Awards, Golden Globes and the Emmy Awards during the 2005-06 television season for award shows. Tonight's show will probably top that...
The 1st CMA Awards were given out in 1967 but television coverage didn't start until 1968 (on tape) and 1969 was the 1st year it was carried live. Sonny James and Bobby Gentry hosted in 1967 when Eddy Arnold was named Entertainer of The Year. Red Foley, J.L. (Joe) Frank and Jim Reeves were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame...
If you're surprised how big Country Music is, you shouldn't be and whether you're a fan of traditional Country over what is being recorded today in Nashville you have a right to be but just know this: Country Music has millions of fans that disagree with you. Like it or not, Country is king. Music doesn't discriminate - people do...
Here's a video clip of Miranda Lambert from an earlier appearance on the American Country Music Awards. Miranda is up for the CMA's Best New Artist Award tonight: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMdcpx4P-nw&mode=related&search=
- [1869] Rutgers beats Princeton 6-4 at New Brunswick (NJ) in the 1st college football game. There were 25 players on each team, touchdowns were 1 point and the game resembled soccer more than football...
- [1913] Mohandas K. Gandhi is arrested as he leads a march of Indian miners in South Africa (I wonder if there were any minor miners ?)...
- [1923] Colonel Jacob Schick patents the 1st electric shaver...
- [1935] Edwin H. Armstrong announces the development of FM broadcasting...
- [1956/2001/2005 Election Day] 1956 President Dwight David Eisenhower is re-elected with a victory over Adlai E. Stevenson...2001 Michael Bloomberg wins the New York City mayoral race by beating Mark Green...2005 Bloomberg defeats Fernando Ferrer to win re-election...
- [1965] Bill Graham's Fillmore West opens with Jefferson Airplane and The Grateful Dead...
- [1995] Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell announces that he plans to move the Browns to Baltimore (it gets worse when the Ravens win the Super Bowl)...
- [1995] The Rangers' Mark Messier scores his 500th NHL goal against Calgary...
- [1996] Michael Jordan scores 50 points for the 29th time in his NBA career...
- [2002] A jury in Beverly Hills convicts Winona Ryder of stealing $5,500 worth of merchandise from Saks Fifth Avenue. She's placed on 3 years probation (Ryder replies "hum a nuh, hum a nuh, hum a nuh")...
Body snatcher: 1973] Singer Gram Parsons manager Phil Kaufman is fined $300 for stealing Parsons' body from LAX. Kaufman claims it was Parson's wish to be cremated and then adds "hum a nuh, hum a nuh, hum a nuh"...
Premiered on this date: 1967] Phil Donahue begins his TV talk show in Dayton (OH) and stays on the air for over 25 years with it...
On Shindig: 1965] The Rolling Stones, Strangeloves and Fontella Bass...
Released on this date: 1965] "It's My Life" - Animals...
[To ensure accuracy of dates and content, multiple reference sources are used in the timeline]...
Commentary...
Fans of Dick Summer in Boston and New York will be happy to note that I've added a link to Dick's website which contains a free blog. The New York Daily News called Dick "a story teller". I'll agree with that. After my 7-11pm shift on WNOR Norfolk, I would listen to Dick religiously on my way home when he was on WBZ and then we got a chance to work together at WNBC. Welcome aboard Dick...
The Good...
30-year old Brian O'Sullivan, an amputee who wears a prosthetic leg ran the New York City Marathon yesterday. O'Sullivan has a suit filed against the NYPD for refusing to let him take a fitness test for the police force. His father, grandfather and brother were all members of the force and Brian's one wish is to follow them as a police officer. His suit is pending...
The Bad...
Wyoming senior center Daaron Brown has been suspended for 5 games for a violation of team rules (don't know what he did. I mean it could be something like having too many "a"'s in his name but there had to be a reason for the suspension)...
The Ugly...
The 20-year old nephew of former heavyweight champ Trevor Berbick and another man have been charged with beating him to death and leaving his body in a church courtyard in Jamaica (Yikes !!!). They have confessed to the murder...
"Happy Birthday...happy birthday":
Rebecca Romijn (34), Ethan Hawke (36), Maria Shriver (51), Glenn Frey (58), Sally Field (60), P.J. Proby (68), Eugene (Jive Five) Pitt (69), Stonewall Jackson (74) and Mike Nichols 975)...
Timeline Countdown: 55 days until 2007, 62 days until the NFL playoffs and 90 days until Super Bowl XLI in Miami...
...
