Country Music Television - Definition and Overview

For the disease CMT see Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.

Country Music Television or CMT as it often referred to as, is a country music oriented cable television channel. Programming includes music videos, taped concerts, movies, and biographies of country stars of past and present. CMT's owner is MTV Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom.

CMT's main competitor was The Nashville Network (TNN), until 2000, when Viacom bought both of those networks; changing the focus of TNN and eventually renaming it to Spike TV.