CMA RATINGS

ABC was in first place Wednesday night thanks to the Country Music Awards. Nearly 36-million watched at least some of the show - just under 17-million of us watched the whole thing.


CBS was in 2nd place with just over 11.3-million thruout the night.

ABC won the night among all key demographics - that would be Adults, Men, Women, Teens, and Kids. And ABC attracted an even larger portion of adults under 50 (68% more) than CBS.

It was ABC's largest Wednesday audience for a non-sporting event in more than four years.

And what was that last big event? Why the CMA's in 2005!

Country Music is awesome (just ask Patricia Heaten! heehee)

CMA Winners

Entertainer of the Year = Taylor Swift

Male Vocalist of the Year = Brad Paisley

Female Vocalist of the Year = Taylor Swift

Vocal Group of the Year = Lady Antebellum

Vocal Duo of the Year = Sugarland

Best New Artist = Darius Rucker

Album of the Year = Fearless by Taylor Swift

Single of the Year = I Run To You

Song of the Year = In Color

Musical Event of the Year = Start A Band

CMA Live Blog

Tim & Faith present

ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR = TAYLOR SWIFT!!!

NOW THIS ONE I AM ON BOARD FOR!!!

YAY TAYLOR!!!!

HERE COME THE TEARS!!!

How awesome is she calling her band up? So Sweet!

Carrie and Brad actually have a moment to wrap things up.

And yes Carrie, you guys were AWESOME!

CMA Live Blog

Carrie's got on a new glittery silver dress for her and Brad to intro Kenny Chesney and Dave Matthews performance of I'm Alive.

MUSICAL EVENT OF THE YEAR = START A BAND by BRAD PAISLEY & KEITH URBAN

Another dress for Carrie - layers of yellow with a black belt.

Nice intro by Carrie for Reba to sing Consider Me Gone.

Doncha love these new songs from Reb?

YAY! Billy Currington and People Are Crazy!

Lee Ann Womack & Kris Kristofferson presenting...

FEMALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR = TAYLOR SWIFT

Sorry, I'm crying FOWL!! Especially when you look at tonight's performances. Love you Taylor, but your voice needs to mature more.

LOL to her being good since she got a hug from Kris.

CMA Live Blog

Oooo I really like Carrie's dress. Went buy to fast and too complicated to describe.

Jason Aldean's big hit Big Green Tractor.

It's actually, kind of, a lackluster performance. No energy.

HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES = BARBARA MANDRELL, ROY CLARK & CHARLIE McCOY

Martina performing with Charlie McCoy in her tribute to Barbara Mandrell. I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool. Nice dress, and nice voice.

Oh, here comes George Strait - and Barbara Mandrell is thrilled.

Barbara Mandrell looks gorgeous! Love her dress.

I don't know where Roy Clark was.

CMA Live Blog

Taylor is performing Fifteen acoustically surrounded by very excited fans with signs, and they sing along nicely. She is much better here than at the beginning.

Yikes, I'm gonna say it again, what is up with LeAnn Rimes makeup? Someone went for Smokey and came up with Night of the Living Dead. Just aweful!

MALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR = BRAD PAISLEY