A lucky 41 TV production majors traveled to Nashville, Tenn., Monday to tour the Country Music Television facility, meet with production personnel and interact in several tapings. The working relationship between Murray State and CMT began when the University won the CMT Country College Town Sweepstakes competition and the station filmed an episode of “CMT Read More
As much as I absolutely love writing features stories and designing newspaper pages, journalism is not my major. I am a television production major through and through, so when the TV department had the opportunity to go and spend the day at CMT Monday, there was not a bone in my body that wasn’t tingling Read More
As everyone already knows, CMT invaded campus last week and it was kind of awesome if you’re into having celebrities, free stuff and television crews all over campus. As if I wasn’t already excited enough about the event, it was announced that one of my favorite bands of all time was the main act. I Read More
(WITH SLIDESHOW) – As promised, CMT brought its film crews and country music stars to invade campus Wednesday. As part of the prize for winning CMT’s “Country College Town Sweepstakes,” the show “Hot 20 Countdown” was filmed throughout campus and an A-list concert was brought to the CFSB Center. Tuesday it was announced students should Read More
After being in the running for almost four months, Murray State has won the “Country College Town Sweepstakes” hosted by Country Music Television. The sweepstakes began in May and ended two weeks ago with Murray State being announced as the winner on “Hot 20 Countdown” on CMT. The prize package includes a taping of “Hot Read More
Being a southern-based University, sweet tea, sundresses and cowboy boots are exceptionally familiar sights. The sound coming from the speakers of the cars passing by on the street are booming with the lyrics of the latest country music songs. Murray State is showing its pride in that country sound by holding the No. 1 position Read More