Father's Day Weekend Faith & Fame Marathon and Messages Home from U.S. Troops Abroad on GMC this Sat. June 20
Contact: Jim Weiss, Gospel Music Channel, 770-692-4579, jim@gospelmusicchannel.com
ATLANTA, June 18 /Christian Newswire/ -- Gospel Music Channel (GMC) (www.gospelmusicchannel.com) will present a marathon of its popular biography series Faith & Fame featuring top-selling artists who are fathers to celebrate Father's Day Weekend 2009. Throughout the marathon, GMC will present special messages home from United States soldiers stationed overseas wishing their Dads Happy Father's Day.
GMC CELEBRATES FATHER'S DAY WEEKEND
Saturday, June 20
Faith & Fame: Third Day 8:00 am
Faith & Fame: Walter Hawkins 9:00 am
Faith & Fame: Kirk Franklin 10:00 am
Faith & Fame: tobyMac 11:00 am
Faith & Fame: Michael W. Smith 12:00 pm
Faith & Fame: Steven Curtis Chapman 1:00 pm
All Times Eastern
GMC is also prepping for the season premiere of the network's popular American Idol®-style talent search series Gospel Dream, to be seen Wednesday nights this summer at 10:00 P.M. ET/PT beginning on June 24.
Gospel Dream talent scouts combed the country this spring, auditioned thousands and decided upon the 36 contestants who will have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to pursue their dream of a musical career and do so in front of a national television audience in the fourth season of Gospel Dream.
The judges who will give one lucky person the chance to live their 'Gospel Dream' will be: Michelle Williams from the GRAMMY- winning group "Destiny's Child"; one of Gospel music's most prolific talents, Stellar Award winner J. Moss; and one of the music industry's most respected executives, Mitchell Solarek. Kimberley Locke, the first "American Idol®" alumnae to debut at #1 on the Billboard charts with a non-Idol single, will serve as co-host with Mike Kasem ("MTV's Top 20 Video Countdown" "American Top 10.") In addition, two major musical artists will serve as surprise coaches during the season. The theme for the show's fourth season: The Greatest Inspirational Songs of All Time.
Gospel Music Channel is the fastest-growing network in television and can be seen in 45 million homes on various cable systems around the country, on DIRECTV on channel 338 and on Verizon FiOS on channel 224.
