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"GAC" redirects here. For other uses of this three-letter abbreviation, see Gac (disambiguation).


Great American Country (or GAC), is a Nashville
Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the Capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. It is the second most populous city in the state after Memphis, Tennessee....
, Tennessee
Tennessee

Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States United States. In 1796, it became the sixteenth state to join the United States....
-based country music
Country music

Country music is a blend of popular American music forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in Traditional music, Celtic music, gospel music, and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s....
 cable television
Cable television

Cable television is a system of providing television to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through fixed optical fibers or coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional television broadcasting in which a television antenna is required....
 network. The station launched December 31, 1995 and Garth Brooks
Garth Brooks

Troyal Garth Brooks is an American country music artist. His eponymous first album was released in 1989; it peaked at #2 in the US country album chart and reached #13 on the Billboard 200 pop album chart....
' video "The Thunder Rolls" was the first video to air on GAC.

Scripps Networks acquired GAC from Centennial, Colorado
Centennial, Colorado

The City of Centennial is a Colorado municipalities#Home_Rule_City located in Arapahoe County, Colorado, Colorado, United States. The city was estimated to have a total population of 98,243 in 2005....
-based Jones Radio Network on October 12, 2004.






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"GAC" redirects here. For other uses of this three-letter abbreviation, see Gac (disambiguation).


Great American Country (or GAC), is a Nashville
Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the Capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. It is the second most populous city in the state after Memphis, Tennessee....
, Tennessee
Tennessee

Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States United States. In 1796, it became the sixteenth state to join the United States....
-based country music
Country music

Country music is a blend of popular American music forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in Traditional music, Celtic music, gospel music, and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s....
 cable television
Cable television

Cable television is a system of providing television to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through fixed optical fibers or coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional television broadcasting in which a television antenna is required....
 network. The station launched December 31, 1995 and Garth Brooks
Garth Brooks

Troyal Garth Brooks is an American country music artist. His eponymous first album was released in 1989; it peaked at #2 in the US country album chart and reached #13 on the Billboard 200 pop album chart....
' video "The Thunder Rolls" was the first video to air on GAC.

Scripps Networks acquired GAC from Centennial, Colorado
Centennial, Colorado

The City of Centennial is a Colorado municipalities#Home_Rule_City located in Arapahoe County, Colorado, Colorado, United States. The city was estimated to have a total population of 98,243 in 2005....
-based Jones Radio Network on October 12, 2004. Scripps Networks, based in Knoxville
Knoxville, Tennessee

Founded in 1786, Knoxville is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Tennessee, behind Memphis, Tennessee and Nashville, Tennessee, and is the county seat of Knox County, Tennessee....
, Tennessee, also owns popular lifestyle-oriented chanels HGTV, Food Network
Food Network

Food Network is a television specialty channel that airs specials and recurring programs about food and cooking. Scripps Networks Interactive owns roughly two thirds of the network, and Tribune Company owns the rest....
, DIY
DIY Network

The DIY Network is a channel owned by Scripps Networks Interactive that focuses on do it yourself projects at home.Television stations air local versions with local hosts with segments produced by the network....
 and Fine Living
Fine Living

Fine Living is an United States specialty television network owned by Scripps Networks Interactive. Founded in 2002 in Los Angeles, California, it was announced in October 2005 that its headquarters would move to Knoxville, Tennessee to be with sister station HGTV....
. The company is a spin-off of E. W. Scripps Company
E. W. Scripps Company

The E.W. Scripps Company is an United States media conglomerate founded by Edward W. Scripps on November 2, 1878. The company is headquartered inside the Scripps Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA....
.

In addition to country music video
Music video

A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a pop music or rock music song with lyrics. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings....
s, 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 54,000,000 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" 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.

Programming


Radio Show

Great American Country and ABC Radio Networks
ABC Radio

ABC Radio Networks, known as ABC Radio for short, is an radio in the United States radio network. The network syndicates some of the most famous personalities in American radio, like Sean Hannity and Don Imus....
 formed a partnership to produce a nightly radio show called GAC Nights: Live From Nashville
GAC Nights: Live From Nashville

GAC Nights: Live From Nashville is an United States nightly radio show produced by ABC Radio in partnership with the E.W. Scripps Company's Great American Country TV Network....
 hosted by Suzanne Alexander, and co-hosted by Storme Warren, and Nan Kelley. It is broadcast from their studios at Music Row
Music Row

Music Row is an area just to the southwest of Downtown Nashville, Tennessee that is home to hundreds of businesses related to the country music, gospel music, and Contemporary Christian music industries....
 in Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the Capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. It is the second most populous city in the state after Memphis, Tennessee....
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