Too-Close-To-Call Races in 2008 Gospel Music Channel Video Awards Voting with One Week Left

Thousand of Viewers and Fans to Select Winners of the Best Gospel/Christian Music Videos of the Year in Rock, Pop, Country, Soul, Contemporary, Hip Hop and Latin Categories

Contact: Jim Weiss, Gospel Music Channel (GMC), 770-692-4579, jim@gospelmusicchannel.com

ATLANTA, October 29 /Christian Newswire/ -- It's been a heated race and it all will be decided next Tuesday, Nov. 4 as voting for the 2008 Gospel Music Channel Video Awards concludes.

The GMCVAs honor the top videos in seven genre categories as well as the overall Top Video of the Year with winners being determined by viewers and fans through online voting at www.gospelmusicchannel.com. Voters are choosing from nominees in Rock, Pop, Country, Soul, Contemporary, Hip Hop and Latin categories that were determined by viewers. (Complete list of nominations attached.)

The Gospel Music Channel Video Awards winners will be announced on Gospel Music Channel Friday, Dec. 26 at 8:00 p.m. (ET) with encores of the awards show airing through New Year's Day.

Gospel Music Channel is the nation's first and only 24/7 television network devoted to the uplifting, inspiring and diverse music that is gospel/Christian music. GMC is the fastest-growing network in television today and can be seen in more than 40 million homes nationwide and on DIRECTV on Channel 338.

Gospel Music Channel Video Awards Nominees

Rock

Fireflight "Unbreakable"

Flyleaf "All Around Me"

NEEDTOBREATHE "Signature Of Divine (Yahweh)"

Family Force 5 "Never Let Me Go"

Red "Already Over"

Pop

SONSOFDAY "This Place"

eleventyseven "Love In Your Arms"

Stellar Kart "Innocent"

Michelle Bonilla "Your Show"

21:03 "You"

Country

Rascal Flatts "Every Day"

Trace Adkins "You're Gonna Miss This"

Phil Stacey "If You Didn't Love Me"

Phil Vassar "Love Is Randy Travis "Faith In You" A Beautiful Thing"

Soul

Marvin Sapp "Never Would Have Made It"

DeWayne Woods "Let Go"

Blind Boys of Alabama "Free At Last"

Kevin Levar "You Are Not Alone"

Hoszia Hinds "I'm Calling"

Contemporary 
Kirk Franklin ''Declaration (This Is It)"
Switchfoot "This Is Home"
Danny Liston "Change the World"
David Phelps "No More Night"
Steven Curtis Chapman "Cinderella"

Hip Hop
T-Bone "Name Droppin'"
Lecrae "Prayin For You"
Tye Tribbett "Good In The Hood"
KJ - 52 "Do Yo Thang"
KJ - 52 "Fan Mail'

Latin
Ingrid Rosario "Quiero Estar En Tu Presencia"
Funky feat. Alex Campos "No Vuelvo Pa'tras"
Benjamín Rivera "Dios Es Amor"