Great American Country
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- "GAC" redirects here. For other uses of this three-letter abbreviation, see Gac (disambiguation).
| Great American Country | |
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| GAC Logo | |
| Launched | December 31, 1995 |
| Owned by | Scripps Networks Interactive |
| Headquarters | Nashville, Tennessee, United States |
| Sister channel(s) | HGTV, Food Network , DIY Network & Fine Living |
| Website | www.gactv.com |
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| DirecTV | Channel 326 |
| Dish Network | Channel 167 |
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| Available on many cable systems | Check local listings for channels |
Great American Country (or GAC), is a Nashville, Tennessee-based country music cable television network. The station launched December 31, 1995 and Garth Brooks' video "The Thunder Rolls" was the first video to air on GAC.[1]
Scripps Networks acquired GAC from Centennial, Colorado-based Jones Radio Network on October 12, 2004. Scripps Networks, based in Knoxville, Tennessee, also owns popular lifestyle-oriented chanels HGTV, Food Network, DIY Network and Fine Living. The company was spun off from The E. W. Scripps Company in July 2008.
In addition to country music videos, GAC features original programming, special musical performances and live concerts.
GAC has been one of the fastest-growing cable networks for the past three years, and is currently available in more than 56,000,000 U.S. households via cable and satellite. In late 2005, Broadcasting & Cable, an industry trade publication, named GAC as one of TV's "Breakout Networks"[2] heading into 2006, saying of the channel: "The emerging GAC is a younger, hipper version that respects Nashville's country roads but widens the boulevards."
The channel's popularity is helped by competing network CMT (which doesn't broadcast country music videos in the afternoon or evening, and over the past few years has increased the amount of non-country music-related programming it broadcasts.) GAC continues showing music videos in the afternoon and evening hours, and keeps its other programming limited to shows that pertain to country music.
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[edit] Programming
[edit] Radio Show
Great American Country and ABC Radio Networks formed a partnership to produce a nightly radio show called GAC Nights: Live From Nashville hosted by Suzanne Alexander, and co-hosted by Storme Warren, and Nan Kelley. It is broadcast from their studios at Music Row in Nashville, Tennessee.
[edit] References
- ^ The Official Garth Brooks Website
- ^ Hot & Happening: Breakout Networks - 10/31/2005 - Broadcasting & Cable
