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Clear 99’s Mad Dash to Music City for the CMA’s

Posted in CMA News by Clear99 on 11/7/2011

The Clear 99 Crew is making a Mad Dash to Music City with Whiskey Wild Saloon for the 45th Annual CMA Awards!  Look for us while watching the show on the LIVE on ABC on Wednesday, November 9th at 7 PM.

On October 17, Scotty & Carissa received were surprised with a phone call from Taylor Swift to tell them that Clear 99 had been named CMA Station of the Year and Scotty & Carissa in the Morning won CMA Personality of the Year!  Laura Bell Bundy will be hosting the pre-telecast ceremony, which is when she’ll present the broadcast awards to winning radio stations and on-air personalities.  If you want to see Clear 99 and Scotty & Carissa be presented with their CMA awards, you’ll have to come to this page to watch the online streaming.  The pre-telecast ceremony will not be televised.

Clear 99’s Mad Dash to Music City Schedule: Scotty & Carissa and Teresa will be leaving early Tuesday morning and will be attending the CMA Songwriters Series on Tuesday night.  Jamie Mac will be flying in on Wednesday and we’ll all head to the CMA Awards Show at Bridgestone Arena that night.

Come Along Clear Country: We want Clear Country to feel as much a part of this trip as possible! Join Scotty & Carissa on Wednesday & Thursday morning as they broadcast their morning show live from Nashville! Plus, expect lots of random call-ins from the Clear Crew throughout the trip. Get the latest Mad Dash to Music City pics, videos and updates on this page, Twitter (@Clear99, @CrissaRenee & @MyUncleScotty) and Facebook (Clear 99 , Scotty & Carissa in the Morning & Jamie Mac on Clear 99).

Special Thanks: We want to give a very big special thanks to Whiskey Wild Saloon for sponsoring our Mad Dash to Music City and helping make it possible for us to go!  Also to The Gown House for providing Carissa with her beautiful CMA dress and to Samuel’s Tuxedos for helping Scotty and Jamie Mac look so sharp in their suits.  Plus, most importantly to our listeners for being so nice and supportive throughout this whole experience!

Taylor Swift Surprises Clear 99 with 2 CMA Wins!

Posted in CMA News, Mobile by Carissa on 12/14/2011

Clear Country has 2 CMA wins to celebrate this year! Clear 99 was named CMA Small Market Station of the Year and Scotty & Carissa in the Morning were named CMA Small Market Personality of the Year!!  Taylor Swift completely shocked us whenever she called to break the news.  We are so excited!!

Thank you to the Country Music Association for this honor and thank you to the listeners for supporting KCLR for over 20 years.

Clear 99 Mad Dash to Music City Pics

Posted in CMA News by Clear99Staff on 11/12/2011

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Clear 99 Receives Two Awards at 2011 CMA Awards

Posted in CMA News by Clear99Staff on 11/10/2011

Clear 99 getting honored for being Station of the Year and Scotty & Carissa in the Morning for Personality of the Year by host Laura Bell Bundy at 2011 CMA Awards. Programming Director, Teresa Davis accepts station award and Scott Cox and Carissa Loethen accept their award.

Scotty & Carissa say, “Of course we would run into each other while accepting the biggest award in Country Music… We wouldn’t want it any other way.”

Sugarland Singing “Run” on CMAs

Posted in CMA News by Carissa on 11/10/2011

Sugarland and Matt Nathanson singing “Run” at the CMAs!

Faith Hill Singing “Come Home” at CMAs

Posted in CMA News by Carissa on 11/10/2011

Faith Hill finally came back after five years to do a performance on the CMAs. Yay! We missed you.

Sitting on the 4th Row at CMAs

Posted in CMA News by Carissa on 11/10/2011

Here’s a glimpse of our view from the 4th row at the CMAs…

Scotty & Carissa Walk the Red Carpet

Posted in CMA News by Carissa on 11/10/2011

Clear 99’s Scotty & Carissa in the Morning got the chance to walk the red carpet at the 45th Annual CMA Awards!  Well, kinda… it was more like the side extension of the real red carpet, but still cool.

Martina McBride Singing “I’m Gonna Love You Through It” at CMAs

Posted in CMA News by Carissa on 11/10/2011

Did we do a good job waving our little lights during Martina McBride’s “I’m Gonna Love You Through It”?  We did our best!

Teresa got a good video of the performance too!

Sara Evans Singing “Stronger” at CMAs

Posted in CMA News by Carissa on 11/10/2011

Gotta love our hometown girl Sara Evans!  She sounded AMAZING singing “Stronger” at the CMAs last night!