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ET CANADA GOES LIVE FROM THE 51 ST ACADEMY OF AWARDS WITH CANADA’S EXCLUSIVE ACM AWARDS RED CARPET SHOW

Stream it live Sunday, April 3rd at 7 pm ET/4 pm PT on etcanada.com , globaltv.com and CMT.ca

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TORONTO, March 31, 2016 – Leading up to the 51st Academy of Country Music Awards , Entertainment Tonight Canada is streaming live from Las Vegas with the ACM Awards: Live From the Red Carpet preshow. The exclusive one-hour red carpet show is hosted by ET Canada’s Cheryl Hickey and Paul McGuire of CMT (Canada) . Starting at 7 pm ET /4pm PT on Sunday, April 3rd, Cheryl and Paul will interview the nominees and celebrity guests as they arrive at the MGM Grand Garden Arena to honour country music’s brightest stars and hottest emerging talent. The duo will offer live commentary on everything from the award show frontrunners to red carpet style.

The star-studded guest list includes Academy of Country Music Awards co-hosts and Dierks Bentley, along with country music queen , recording superstar , multiple-Grammy Award® winner , music duo Florida Georgia Line, country music veteran Kenny Chesney, chart-topper Tim McGraw and many more.

ACM Awards: Live From the Red Carpet with ET Canada and CMT will stream live Sunday, April 3rd starting at 7pm ET/4pm PT on etcanada.com , globaltv.com and CMT.ca .

Starting at 8 pm ET/5pm PT, tune in to Global for the 51st Academy of Country Music Awards live broadcast.

Cheryl Hickey will host ET Canada’s Monday night show from Las Vegas offering viewers a complete ACM Awards recap including backstage interviews with winners, fashion highlights, after-party moments, and more. For complete ACM Awards wrap up coverage tune in to ET Canada Monday, April 4th at 7:30 pm ET/PT on Global and visit etcanada.com .

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Entertainment Tonight Canada is the nation's entertainment powerhouse delivering in depth and breaking up-to-the minute celebrity, film, television and music news both on-air and online. Together with celebrity news trailblazer Entertainment Tonight, ET Canada delivers the Most Watched Hour of Entertainment News to Canadians every night, every week, coast to coast. Hosted by Cheryl Hickey and Rick Campanelli, ET Canada is produced by Shaw Media for Global Television in association with Paramount Domestic Television. Sholeh Fabbri serves as Executive Producer with Jodie Davis as Co-Executive Producer.

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Shaw Communications Inc. is a diversified communications and media company. Shaw serves 3.2 million consumers and businesses through a reliable and extensive fibre network. Shaw provides consumers with broadband Internet, WiFi, Digital Phone and Video services. Shaw Business provides businesses with Internet, data, WiFi, telephony, Video and fleet tracking services, and ViaWest provides collocation, cloud and managed services. Shaw Media provides Canadians with engaging programming content through one of Canada’s largest conventional television networks, Global Television, and 19 specialty networks, including HGTV Canada, Food Network Canada, HISTORY® and Showcase. Shaw is traded on the Toronto and New York stock exchanges and is included in the S&P/TSX 60 Index (Symbol: TSX – SJR.B, NYSE – SJR). For more information about Shaw, please visit http://www.shaw.ca .

About CMT (Canada)

CMT (Canada) is Canada’s source for country music and likeminded programming that showcases compelling stories and characters. The network offers a mix of original programming, sitcoms, movies, music videos and specials. CMT is owned by Corus Entertainment Inc., an integrated media and content company. For more information, please visit CMT.ca and corusent.com .

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Colette Abbott Unit Publicist, ET Canada 416-446-5333 [email protected]