‘Country Countdown USA’ Host Lon Helton and More Receive 2025 CMA Broadcast Awards: Full List

The Country Music Association has announced the recipients of the 2025 CMA Broadcast Awards. On Tuesday (Oct. 7), CMA caller creator of the twelvemonth nominee Tucker Wetmore personally amazed vigor stations and broadcast personalities nationwide with one-on-one calls to stock the news.

Lon Helton, big of Country Countdown USA with Lon Helton, won for CMA broadcast property of the twelvemonth — play national. KKBQ successful Houston won CMA vigor presumption of the twelvemonth — large market.

Winners of the CMA Broadcast Awards volition beryllium recognized during the Pre-Telecast Ceremony connected Wednesday, Nov. 19, anterior to the 59th Annual CMA Awards. The primetime telecast, hosted by Lainey Wilson, volition aerial unrecorded from Bridgestone Arena successful Nashville at 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT connected ABC and watercourse the adjacent time connected Hulu.

CMA Broadcast Awards winners are not eligible to participate the aforesaid grant class successful consecutive years; therefore, those who received trophies successful 2024 were not eligible successful 2025.

The CMA Broadcast Award categories are established by marketplace size based connected colonisation arsenic ranked by Nielsen. Entries for broadcast property of the twelvemonth are judged connected aircheck, ratings, assemblage involvement, and biographical and interaction information. Candidates for vigor presumption of the twelvemonth are judged connected aircheck, ratings, assemblage involvement, and enactment and interaction information.

Any full-time, on-air broadcast personalities and vigor stations successful the U.S. and Canada were eligible to taxable entries, careless of CMA rank status. The entries are judged by a sheet of broadcast professionals, representing each marketplace sizes and regions.

See beneath for the afloat database of 2025 CMA Broadcast Awards nominees, with winners marked.

   
Weekly National

WINNER: “Country Countdown USA with Lon Helton” (Lon Helton) – LH Productions

“The Country Top 40 With Fitz” (Cory “Fitz” Fitzner) – Hubbard Broadcasting

“The Original Country Gold” (Rowdy Yates) – Syndicated Media

“Today’s Country Radio” (Kelleigh Bannen) – Apple Music Radio

“Y’all Access with Kelly Sutton” (Kelly Sutton) – Compass Media Group

Daily National

“Big D & Bubba” (“Big D” Derek Haskins, “Bubba” Sean Powell, Carsen Humphreville, Jonathan Shaffer, and Garrett Freche) – Silverfish Media

“Highway Mornings With Cody Alan” (Cody Alan and Lauryn Snapp) – SiriusXM

“Ridin’ With Rowdy” (Rowdy Yates) – SuiteRadio / RFC Media

WINNER: “The Rob and Holly Show” (Rob Stone and Holly Hutton) – Audacy

“Wilhite and Wall Show” (Darren Wilhite and Tim Wall) – Ebert Productions

Major Market

WINNER: “Chris Carr & Company” (Chris Carr, Sam Sansevere, and “Dubs” Michael Wilczynski) – KEEY, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn.

“Hawkeye and Michelle” (“Hawkeye” Mark Louis Rybczyk and Michelle Rodriguez) – KSCS, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Texas

“The Lo Show” (Lauren “Lo” Barker) – KKBQ, Houston

“Rachel Ryan” (Rachel Ryan) – KSCS, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Texas

“The Scotty Kay Show” (Scotty Kay) – WUSN, Chicago

Large Market

“Deb & Matt successful the Morning” (Deborah Honeycutt and Matt Malone) – WFMS, Indianapolis, Ind.

WINNER: “The Q Morning Crew w/ Mike & Amanda” (Mike Wheless and Amanda Daughtry) – WQDR, Raleigh-Durham, N.C.

“Scott and Shannen” (Scott Dolphin and “Shannen O” Oesterreich) – WMIL, Milwaukee, Wis.

“Tim & Chelsea” (Tim Leary and Chelsea Taylor) – WIRK, West Palm Beach-Boca Raton, Fla.

“Wayne D and Tay” (“Wayne D” Danielson and Tay Hamilton) – WSIX, Nashville

Medium Market

“The Doc Show with Chewy” (Ken “Doc” Medek and Sean “Chewy” Medek) – WGGY, Wilkes Barre-Scranton, Pa.

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