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  Brad Cotter wins USA Network's 'Nashville Star'

  May 3, 2004
  The final votes have been tallied, and America has chosen 33-year-old Brad Cotter as this season's winner of USA Network's Nashville Star.
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  'Combat Missions' star Scott Helvenston among 4 dead in ambush in Fallujah, Iraq

  April 2, 2004
  Scott Helvenston, 38, a former U.S. Navy SEAL who was one of the principal stars of the USA Television reality series Combat Missions, has been identified as one of the four Americans who were killed and then abused after death in an ambush by Iraqi terrorists in Fallujah, Iraq on March 31.

• Second 'Nashville Star' season to feature new judges and numerous celebrity guest stars

  March 6, 2004
  Nashville Star, the Nancy O'Dell-hosted grassroots talent search series to find the next country music superstar, will feature two new judges and a boatload of special country music guest artists during its second season, which premieres Saturday, March 6 at 10 PM ET/PT on USA Network.

• 'Nashville Star' names Top 20 second season finalists

  February 6, 2004
  USA Network has revealed the identities of the twenty finalists who will be competing on the second season of its Nashville Star country music artist competition.

• USA Network begins auditions and sets schedule for second 'Nashville Star'

  October 23, 2003
  USA Networks announced Tuesday that the second edition of its reality-talent show Nashville Star will begin airing on March 6, 2004, in the same Saturday night at 10 PM (ET/PT) time slot (which, to put it politely, is not a desirable slot).

• USA Network to air second edition of 'Nashville Star' in Early 2004

  July 14, 2003
  USA Network has announced that the second season of Nashville Star, a grassroots nationwide talent search for the next country music superstar, will premiere on the cable network in the first quarter of 2004.

• 'Nashville Star' winner Buddy Jewell debuts at #13 on Billboard CD chart

  July 11, 2003
  Fox's American Idol isn't the only reality TV show hitting the pop music charts any longer. Billboard reports that the debut CD of Buddy Jewell, the winner in the finale of USA Network's country-music reality series Nashville Star, sold 52,000 copies last week, good enough for 13th place in the Billboard Hot 200 CD charts. The CD, simply entitled Buddy Jewell and featuring Jewell's smash hit "Help Pour Out the Rain (Lacey's Song)", also debuted at #1 on the Country CD chart.
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  Ninth Eco-Challenge begins May 5 on USA Network in U.S.

  May 2, 2003
  The St. Petersburg Times reports that Eco-Challenge, the show that first put Mark Burnett on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, returns for the ninth time on Monday, May 5 through Thursday, May 8 on the USA Network in the U.S.

• 'Nashville Star' finale renews Arkansas-Texas rivalry

  May 2, 2003
  Don't these two states even give it up? In the spirit of the old South-Western Conference, made up of seven universities from Texas and the University of Arkansas, the Arkansas Star Gazette reports that the final three contestants on USA Network's country-music series Nashville Star consist of two contestants from Texas and one from Arkansas. Although the voting is complete, the winner will not be announced until Saturday night at 9.

• USA's 'Nashville Star' begins filming, first episode to premiere Saturday, March 8th

  March 7, 2003
  Back in October, we reported that the USA Network was casting for a new reality/talent show, sort of a country-and-western hybrid between The Real World and American Idol. Today, the Associated Press reports that the performers-houseguests moved into their new lodgings, on Music Row in Nashville, on Wednesday. For the next nine weeks, the twelve contestants will be voted out of the house until only one is left; the winner may then become a Nashville Star.

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