{"id":113647,"date":"2018-06-05T12:23:32","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T16:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=113647"},"modified":"2018-06-05T12:23:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T16:23:32","slug":"kelsea-ballerini-thomas-rhett-returning-hosts-abcs-cma-fest-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2018\/06\/05\/kelsea-ballerini-thomas-rhett-returning-hosts-abcs-cma-fest-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelsea Ballerini, Thomas Rhett Returning As Hosts For ABC&#8217;s CMA Fest Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual CMA Fest is currently taking place in Nashville, and ABC will once again be chronicling the event for a three-hour television broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>Like last year, country stars Kelsea Ballerini and Thomas Rhett will host the special.<\/p>\n<p>ABC shared the news in a Tuesday morning announcement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thomas and Kelsea are the embodiment of the summer fun that is CMA Fest, and we are so excited they\u2019ll be back for year two,&#8221; said Rob Mills of ABC.<\/p>\n<p>The three-hour special will air from 8-11PM EDT on Wednesday, August 8.<\/p>\n<p>ABC has historically branded the special as &#8220;CMA Fest: Country&#8217;s Night To Rock.&#8221;  Press material for this year&#8217;s show, at least as of right now, does not include the &#8220;Country&#8217;s Night To Rock&#8221; subtitle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The three-hour broadcast airs on August 8.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1048],"tags":[9460,2935,1068],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kelsea Ballerini, Thomas Rhett Returning As Hosts For ABC&#039;s CMA Fest Special<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The annual CMA Fest is currently taking place in Nashville, and ABC will once again be chronicling the event for a three-hour television broadcast. 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