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Nashville Artist Managers Launch TV Production Firm

By Phyllis Stark, Nashville
Publication: Billboard Bulletin
Date: Tuesday, October 21 2003
Artist managers Larry Fitzgerald and Mark Hartley of Fitzgerald-Hartley have teamed up with two other partners to launch a Nashville-based TV production company, Different Drummer Productions.

Their first project is "Country Music Across America," a 30-minute weekly

country-music news program that will debut Nov. 4 on the Great American Country network.

Fitzgerald and Hartley are co-executive producers of the show, along with their Different Drummer partners Greg Travis and Storme Warren. Travis, a veteran producer, owns Travis Television in Nashville. Warren, a radio and television veteran, will host "Country Music Across America."

The show will feature a different celebrity guest host for each episode. Vince Gill will co-host the debut.

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