CMT Adds Brown As Executive Producer

Quinn Brown

CMT has added Quinn Brown in the newly-created position of Executive Producer. Brown will oversee all of the channel’s hosted news/entertainment shows from pre-production through post-production, including CMT Hot 20 Countdown, CMT #1 Music and a Movie, and various network specials.

Brown will be based out of CMT’s Nashville office.

“Having produced some of the biggest names in music and television, Quinn Brown brings an impressive track record to CMT,” says John Hamblin, Sr. VP, Music Events and Talent. “We are fortunate to have his creative eye and his steady hand to guide our studio based productions including our ever important weekly franchise, Hot 20 Countdown.”

Most recently, Brown helped launch Fuse News for Madison Square Garden’s Fuse TV, where he field produced the Grammys and Brit Awards and lead the show’s franchises unit. Prior to that, he worked as a producer on ABC News’ World News with Diane Sawyer and as senior producer on the launch of Nigel Lythgoe’s Opening Act and HLN’s Dr. Drew in 2011.

More than a decade of Brown’s career was spent at CNN, including an eight-year run on Larry King Live, where he held a variety of positions, including field producing, line producing and creative directing. He was also a reporter and contributor at CNN.com, covering all genres of music.

Brown won an Emmy Award for the 23^rd Annual News and Documentary Awards while at CNN for 9/11 coverage. He is also a recipient of multiple Peabody Awards for CNN’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina (2005), Election Coverage (2008) and the Gulf Oil Disaster (2010), as well as a Dupont Award for CNN Tsunami coverage (2005).

Brown graduated from the University of Georgia and is a native of Atlanta.  He relocated from New York and now resides in Nashville with his wife Jennifer and dog Hank.