Country music

==Performers and shows==
{{Main|List of country music performers|List of country performers by era|List of country television and radio shows}}

===US cable television===
Several US television networks are at least partly devoted to the genre: [[CMT (American TV channel)|Country Music Television]] (CMT) (the first channel devoted to country music) and [[CMT Music]] (both owned by [[Paramount Global]]), [[RFD-TV]] and [[The Cowboy Channel]] (both owned by Rural Media Group), [[Heartland (TV network)|Heartland]] (owned by [[Get After It Media]]), [[Circle Country]] (a joint venture of the ''Grand Ole Opry'' and [[Gray Television]]), [[The Country Network]] (owned by TCN Country, LLC), and Country Music Channel (the country-oriented sister channel of [[California Music Channel]]).

[[The Nashville Network]] (TNN) was launched in 1983 as a channel devoted to country music, and later added sports and outdoor lifestyle programming. It actually launched just two days after CMT. In 2000, after TNN and CMT fell under the same corporate ownership, TNN was stripped of its country format and rebranded as ''The National Network'', then ''Spike TV'' in 2003, ''Spike'' in 2006, and finally [[Paramount Network]] in 2018. TNN was later revived from 2012 to 2013 after [[Jim Owens Entertainment]] (the company responsible for prominent TNN hosts [[Crook & Chase]]) acquired the trademark and licensed it to [[Get After It Media|Luken Communications]]; that channel renamed itself Heartland after Luken was embroiled in an unrelated dispute that left the company bankrupt.

[[Great American Family|Great American Country]] (GAC) was launched in 1995, also as a country music-oriented channel that would later add lifestyle programming pertaining to the American Heartland and South. In Spring 2021, GAC's then-owner, [[Discovery, Inc.]] divested the network to [[Great American Media|GAC Media]], which also acquired the equestrian network [[Great American Living|Ride TV]]. Later, in the summer of that year, GAC Media relaunched Great American Country as GAC Family, a family-oriented general entertainment network, while Ride TV was relaunched as GAC Living, a network devoted to programming pertaining to lifestyles of the American South. The GAC acronym which once stood for "Great American Country" now stands for "Great American Channels".

===Canadian television===
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Only one television channel was dedicated to country music in Canada: [[CMT (Canadian TV channel)|CMT]] owned by [[Corus Entertainment]] (90%) and Viacom (10%). However, the lifting of strict genre licensing restrictions saw the network remove the last of its music programming at the end of August 2017 for a schedule of generic off-network family sitcoms, [[Canadian content|Cancom]]-compliant lifestyle programming, and reality programming. In the past, the current-day [[Cottage Life (TV channel)|Cottage Life]] network saw some country focus as Country Canada and later, CBC Country Canada before that network drifted into an alternate network for overflow CBC content as Bold. [[Stingray Music]] continues to maintain several country music audio-only channels on [[cable radio]].

In the past, country music had an extensive presence, especially on the Canadian national broadcaster, [[CBC Television]]. The show ''[[Don Messer's Jubilee]]'' significantly affected country music in Canada; for instance, it was the program that launched [[Anne Murray]]'s career. [[Gordie Tapp]]'s ''[[Country Hoedown]]'' and its successor, ''[[The Tommy Hunter Show]]'', ran for a combined 36 years on the CBC, from 1956 to 1992; in its last nine years on air, the U.S. cable network TNN carried Hunter's show.

===Australian cable television===
The only network dedicated to country music in Australia was the [[Country Music Channel]] owned by [[Foxtel]]. It ceased operations in June 2020 and was replaced by [[CMT (Australian TV channel)|CMT]] (owned by [[Network 10]] parent company [[Paramount Networks UK & Australia]]).{{Citation needed|date=April 2019}}

===British digital television===
One music video channel is now dedicated to country music in the United Kingdom: [[Spotlight TV]], owned by Canis Media.

===Festivals===
{{Main|List of country music festivals}}