“It’s the biggest thing we will do all year, and that’s what we want to document.” Executives wanted to chronicle “a modern phenomenon in country music that would have been unheard of a few years ago. ![]() The new “Concert of the Summer” will take viewers inside the sheer scale of a stadium concert, said Brian Philips, president of CMT. “There is a sense of quality and craft that starts with the music.” “We are looking at country as a state of mind,” said Anthony Barton, CMT senior VP of marketing and creative, in an interview. ![]() ![]() Viacom’s CMT said it would double the amount of original programming it has on the air, launching a new summer concert tentpole event and try to strike a chord with new kinds of scripted series such as “Still the King,” a comedy starring Billy Ray Cyrus, and “Million Dollar Quartet,” a series about the world of 1950s Memphis, where the pioneers of rock ‘n’ roll came of age.
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