COUNTRY MUSIC STARS SURPRISE 2023 CMA BROADCAST AWARDS WINNERS
Nine-Time CMA Award Nominee This Year Lainey Wilson and Three-Time CMA Award Nominee This Year Jordan Davis Call Stations to Reveal Winners
The Country Music Association has announced the recipients of the 2023 CMA Broadcast Awards. Nine-time CMA Awards nominee this year, Lainey Wilson and three-time CMA Award nominee Jordan Davis surprised radio stations and broadcast personalities today with one-on-one calls to reveal the news.
See below for the full list of 2023 CMA Broadcast Awards winners.
CMA BROADCAST PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR:
WEEKLY NATIONAL
“Country Countdown USA” (Lon Helton) – Compass Media Networks
DAILY NATIONAL
“Angie Ward” (Angie Ward) – iHeartMedia
MAJOR MARKET
“Hawkeye in the Morning with Hawkeye and Michelle” (“Hawkeye” Mark Louis Rybczyk and Michelle Rodriguez) – KSCS, Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas
LARGE MARKET
“The Wayne D Show” (“Wayne D” Danielson and Tay Hamilton) – WSIX, Nashville, Tenn.
MEDIUM MARKET
“Mo & StyckMan” (Melissa “Mo” Wagner and Greg “StyckMan” Owens) – WUSY, Chattanooga, Tenn.
SMALL MARKET
“Steve, Ben and Nikki” (Steve Stroud, Ben Walker and Nikki Thomas) – WXBQ, Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol, Tenn.-Va.
CMA RADIO STATION OF THE YEAR:
MAJOR MARKET
KEEY – Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minn.
LARGE MARKET
WUBE – Cincinnati, Ohio
MEDIUM MARKET
KUZZ – Bakersfield, Calif.
SMALL MARKET
WXBQ – Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol, Tenn.-Va.
The categories are established by market size based on population as ranked by Nielsen. Entries for Broadcast Personality of the Year are judged on aircheck, ratings, community involvement and biographical and impact information. Candidates for Radio Station of the Year are judged on aircheck, ratings, community involvement and leadership and impact information.
This year, any full-time, on-air broadcast personalities and radio stations in the United States and Canada were eligible to submit entries, regardless of CMA membership status. The entries are judged by a panel of distinguished broadcast professionals, representing all market sizes and regions.
CMA Broadcast Awards winners are not eligible to enter the same award category in consecutive years; therefore, those who received trophies in 2022 were not eligible in 2023.
“The 57th Annual CMA Awards,” hosted by Luke Bryan and Peyton Manning, will air live from Bridgestone Arena in Nashville Wednesday, Nov. 8 at 8/7c on ABC.
About the CMA Awards
The first “CMA Awards Banquet and Show” was held in 1967. The following year, the CMA Awards was broadcast for the first time – making it the longest running, annual music awards program on network television. The CMA Awards have aired on ABC since 2006. ABC is the network home of the CMA Awards and CMA’s other two television properties, “CMA Fest” and “CMA Cocuntry Christmas.”
All balloting is tabulated by the professional services organization, Deloitte.
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