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Article: CMT"S Crowning Glory.(Country Music Television telecasts Miss America Pageant)

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January 29, 2007
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By Randy Barrett

Country Television Is Not Just About Music Any More

What do you get when you sing a country song backwards?

You get your truck back, your girl back and your house back -

Country Music Television has taken the old joke to heart by deconstructing the popular form of storytelling through song and building a network around its connotations and cultural extensions.

Which is why tonight, you'll see a bevy of hometown beauties in a battle of bikinis on CMT, as the network broadcasts the Miss America Pageant for the second time.

Purists may ask what such fare has to do with country music at all. Indeed, on ...

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