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WUBE-FM's Jesse & Amanda Nominated For CMA Broadcast Award

91.7 WVXU | By John Kiesewetter

Published September 6, 2017 at 9:00 AM EDT

WUBE-FM afternoon hosts Amanda Valentine and Jesse Tack

Congratulations to WUBE-FM's afternoon drive hosts Jesse Tack and Amanda Valentine on their first nomination for a Country Music Association Broadcast Award.

The Broadcast Award nominees were announced along with nominees for the "51^st Annual CMA Awards" to air live on ABC on Nov. 8 (8-11 p.m., Channel 9, ABC). Miranda Lambert received five CMA nominations for single, song, album and video of the year, plus best female vocalist. Little Big Town and Keith Urban each earned four nominations.

Amanda & Jesse (3-7 p.m. weekdays on B105.1) are one of six nominees for "large market personality of the year." Their competition includes two shows from WCOL-FM in Columbus: Woody Johnson and the Wake-Up Call morning team and "Boxing" Brandon Nasby. Also up for the award are Lois Lewis from KWNR-FM in Las Vegas; the Randy, Jamie and Jojo Show at KAJA-FM in San Antonio; and Tige and Daniel from WSIX-FM in Nashville.

Earning a medium market personality of the year nomination was Dayton's WHKO-FM "New Country Mornings" team of Nancy Wilson and James Frye. "Officer" Don Evans and DeAnn Stephens at WBUL-FM in Lexington, KY, were among the small market personality of the year nominees.

WCOL-FM was the only station in our region nominated for station of the year.

Tack was B105's popular evening DJ until August 2014, when he moved to afternoon drive. He replaced Big Dave and Chelsea, who took over mornings when Chris Carr left the station. Tack worked for sister Wolf country (WYGY-FM, 97.3) until switching to B105 about 10 years ago.

WUBE-FM won two CMA Broadcast awards last year – for large market station of the year and for the "Big Dave Show" as large market personality of the year – making them ineligible to enter this year. B105 also won the CMA station of the year in 1998, 2009 and 2012.

"We could not be prouder of Amanda and Jesse," said Patti Marshall, operations manager of Hubbard Interactive Cincinnati, in a media release. "B105 has a rich history of personalities who have been nominated for this award. Amanda and Jesse are now deservedly a part of this family tradition."

Here are links to the complete list of CMA nominees and and CMA Broadcast nominees.

Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood will host ABC's "CMA Awards" telecast for a 10^th year.