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WELCOME TO NU COUNTRY TV
NU
COUNTRY TV AUTUMN NEWS
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SUGARLAND
INTERVIEW
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Other
major touring acts featured in the new series include U.S
chart toppers diverse as Sugarland and Brooks & Dunn,
Corb Lund, Patty Griffin and Jim Lauderdale.
Nu Country will also feature an exclusive interview Sugarland
who play Northcote Social Club on Tuesday March 18 after performing
at the Snowy Mountains festival at Thredbo on March 14 and
15 and the West Coast roots music festival in Fremantle on
March 16.
CLICK
HERE for our pre-tour interview with Sugarland singer Jennifer
Nettles from our Diary on March 3.
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ADAM
BRAND INTERVIEW
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We
also have new video clips by artists diverse as Alan Jackson,
Carrie Underwood, Garth Brooks, Kenny Chesney, Dale Watson,
Steve Earle and Emerson Drive.
And, of course, we feature new clips by Australian acts including
Catherine Britt, Steve Forde, The Flood, Jayne Denham, Kirsty
Lee Akers, Sara Storer, Nicki Gillis and Davidson Brothers.
Nu Country TV will also feature highlights of the Port Fairy,
Point Nepean and Snowy Mountains festivals.
Sean Tierney has edited live footage of Snowy Townsend's Bona
Fide Travellers, Leslie Avril and former Toe Sucking Cowgirl
Tracey Bunn live from Hotel Kew.
We also have an exclusive interview with Perth born, Queensland
country star Adam Brand - winner of 13 Golden Guitars - and
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Brand,
who lived in Wallington and Colac in Western Victoria during
his secondary education, is promoting his seventh album Blame
It On Eve on an east coast tour with Noiseworks singer Jon Stevens.
CLICK
HERE for the Adam Brand feature from the Diary on March 3.
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NU
COUNTRY TV LIVE ON THE WEB
We
have good news for Nu Country TV fans here and overseas.
Select episodes of the show are now available online at the web
page of the Victorian mother ship C 31.
That's a bonus for Peter Hosking - our founder and executive producer-in-exile
in Prague - and international artists touring Australia in 2008.
The episodes available for viewing online are February 9 and 23,
2008.
To
access Nu Country live on the web please visit: http://www.c31.org.au/shows/show.php?showid=148&t=video
PATTY
GRIFFIN RETURNS FOR TOUR #2
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Maine
born and latter day Texan singer-songwriter Patty Griffin
returns to Australia for her second tour in March.
She plays the Port Nepean and Byron Bay blues festivals at
Easter with John Fogerty and expatriate Australasian superstar
Keith Urban.
Fogerty also performs at Rod Laver Arena on March 19 and Patty
and band play at St Kilda Palais Theatre on March 28.
Griffin toured Australia from November 13-23 with her guitarist
Doug Lancio.
Patty, 43, is a prolific hit writer for herself and other
major artists and her songs have appeared in a brace of movies.
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She
is promoting her seventh CD Children Running Through and
new 14-track DVD Live At The Artists Den in New York
City.
Web mistress Anne Sydenham has reviewed Patty's Melbourne concerts
for our live review section of the web page.
CLICK HERE for our new interview with Patty in the Diary.
CLICK
HERE for our previous interview with Patty in the Diary on March
1, 2006.
CLICK HERE for
Patty Griffin concert review
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COUNTRY TV LAUNCHES IN QUEENSLAND
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We
have more exciting news for country music lovers - Nu Country
TV premiered in Queensland in August.
The show debuted on C 31 in Brisbane on Thursday August 16
at 8 p m and repeats on Fridays at 9.30 am.
C 31 in Queensland will reach back to Series #1, created in
the spring of 2003, as its entrée.
It will then use more recent episodes of the show - brainchild
of celebrated Melbourne actor and voiceover maestro Peter
Hosking.
Country music lovers in Queensland join a vast cast in Victoria
and South Australia as viewers of the show that also screens
twice weekly on the Family Television Network in New Zealand.
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NU
COUNTRY TV NEWS ON MELBOURNE RADIO
Nu
Country TV producer David Dawson joins Stereo 974
personality Bob Taylor
on air each Monday and Thursday at 10 am to deliver
the latest music news.
The duo breaks the latest country music and movie
stories from here and overseas and also preview Series
#10 of Nu Country TV that premieres in June.
These are good tidings for listeners to the country
oasis in the hits and memories and pop commercial
radio desert of Melbourne.
The Brooklyn community radio station now broadcasts
country music from 9 am to 6 pm on weekdays.
Stereo 974 experienced a huge increase in listeners
since veteran radio personality and vocal coach Taylor
replaced pop with country music in his shows.
Taylor,
renowned for his DJ training and production at Nu
Country FM in its halcyon days, practices what
he preaches - back announcing of songs and artists.
Nu Country TV Vice President and popular DJ
Rod Browne also hosts Action Country on Stereo
974 on weekdays from 3-6 pm.
The nine-hour country oasis compliments Stereo
974 manager Rod Boyd's Truck Stop from
midnight-dawn on weekdays and midnight-8 a.m. on Saturday
and Sunday.
Programmer Taylor will update the station's music
daily and is reached by email at
bob@stereo974.com
The strength of the Stereo 974 FM signal means
country music will now be heard 15 hours a day throughout
the metropolitan area.
Geelong listeners will also have even greater choice
- both Stereo 974 that penetrates the eastern
extremities of Corio Bay - and Geelong Country
FM.
And, as a bonus for listeners beyond Melbourne and
Geelong, the country music is also accessed live on
the Internet.
Further info -
http://www.stereo974.com/
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MORE
NU COUNTRY TV VIP HOSTS
Brady
joined other celebrities including Oregon country singer-quarter
horse breeder Joni Harms, Rusty Rich of Scared Weird
Little Guys, Kevin Bennett of The Flood and Hamish Davidson
of The Davidson Brothers as guest hosts.
Our creator Peter Hosking and Mid Pacific Bob Olson
collaborated on a tribute to our late host and Nu Country
FM presenter Lawrie Weir who died at 58 on the eve of
the new series.
CLICK
HERE for our obituary on Lawrie in the Diary on May
27.
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NU
COUNTRY TV ALSO IN NEW ZEALAND
Nu
Country TV expanded into Rotorua in New Zealand after
debuting on Family TV in Waikato, boosting its viewers
by 60,000.
The popular show is screened on Family TV in Rotorua
on Monday at 10.30 a m, Friday at 11.30 a m and Saturday
at 10 p m.
Nu Country TV has become the only show of its genre
on New Zealand TV.
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VIDEO CLIPS NEEDED
Nu Country TV beams into Phillip Island, West Gippsland,
Geelong & the Surf Coast, Bellarine Peninsula,
north to Mt Macedon and east to the Dandenongs.
We're also featured on C 31 in South Australia - home
state of expatriate Greencards multi-instrumentalist
Kym Warner and Nashville recording artist Jedd Hughes.
Golden Guitar winner Beccy Cole, Jake Nickolai and
2000 Star Maker winner Cat Southern also earned their
stripes in home state South Australia.
This means 750,000 viewers plus for videos, interviews
and live gig footage weekly.
Please send your video clips in mini-DV or DVD-R format
to Nu Country - P O Box 625, Northcote - 3070.
We'll keep you up to date on country music through
our concert reviews, features in our Diary and tours
in TonkGirl's Gig Guide.
CLICK HERE for our Gig
Guide.
And CLICK HERE for
our live concert reviews.
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Nu
Country TV is repeated on C31
in Melbourne:
Monday
4.00pm
Wednesday 3.00am
Thursday 9.00am
VIEW
SELECTED
SHOWS ONLINE
ON C31
DIG
COUNTRY RADIO
The
ABC has added Dig Country to its on-line jazz and roots radio
stations.
Adelaide bluegrass and roots country expert Richard Porteous
and peers have created a joyous sound that is reminiscent
of Nu Country FM in its halcyon days.
Tune
in by visiting Dig Country.
LOCAL COMMUNITY RADIO
Other
radio avenues include -
David Heard's Acid Country on PBS
106.7 FM, Thursday 3-5.30 PM
Denise Hylands Twang on RRR
102.7 FM - Saturday 2-4 PM
Rod Browne, Working Without A Net WYN- 88.9 FM - Thursday
6-8 PM
Midweek
Country - INRFM 96.5FM Wednesday between 7pm & 9pm.
The presenters alternate each week, they are Bill Corrie &
John Worth.
JOHN WORTH
REAL COUNTRY
WYNFM 88.9
Tuesday 8pm -10pm
COLIN
WEIDNER Texas Time Travellin North West FM Glenroy 98.9
Saturday
6 p m - 8 p m
FRANK MCHUGH
That's Country
North West FM Glenroy 98.9 Sunday
12pm - 3 p m
IAN
EDWARDS
playing a mix of Oz, US, Bluegrass Western swing & everything
in between, on the Double Clutchin Weasel Show On 88.6FM
Wednesday night
@ 10.00PM - 12.00pm
GEELONG
COUNTRY - 89.3 FM - 24 hours non-stop country
ROD
BROWNE
STEREO
974 - BROOKLYN Monday-Friday
3- 6 pm and Midnight to Dawn Daily.
BIG
PETE WINDLE
FRIDAY
3MDR 97.1FM
9.30 pm to midnight
[full on country]
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