{"id":892,"date":"2009-09-10T08:53:04","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T08:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/09\/cast-your-votes-for-the-2009-g.html"},"modified":"2009-09-10T08:53:04","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T08:53:04","slug":"cast-your-votes-for-the-2009-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/09\/cast-your-votes-for-the-2009-g.html","title":{"rendered":"Cast Your Votes For the 2009 Gospel Music Channel Video Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GospelMusicChannellogo.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/118\/import\/GospelMusicChannellogo.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"55\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px\" \/><\/span>Move over MTV Video Music Awards: The Gospel Music Channel is ready for Christian music fans to cast their votes for their favorite Christian music videos of 2009.<br \/>\nThe Gospel Music Channel Video Awards (GMCVAs) give GMC viewers the opportunity to cast votes for their favorite videos in seven categories: Rock, Pop, Country, Soul, Hip Hop, Contemporary and Praise &amp; Worship (a new category in 2009).  The winning videos in each of the seven categories become eligible to win &#8220;GMC Video of the Year,&#8221; which will be selected by a GMC Blue Ribbon Committee. The 2009 GMCVA winners will be announced in a one-hour television special to premiere on GMC on Saturday, January 2, 2010.<br \/>\nThe award voting is done in two phases:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThe first phase\/ nominee selection for the 2009 GMCVAs begins today and continues through Thursday, October 8. Just go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gospelmusicchannel.com\/gmcva\">Gospel Music Channel website<\/a>, where you can select the top six videos per category from the list of eligible videos.<br \/>\nThe six videos which receive the most votes in each category will then become the 2009 GMCVA nominees. Nominated videos will be seen on GMC&#8217;s new weekday morning series Joyful Noise Caf\u00e9 (M-F, 8am-12noon ET) and other GMC video programming blocks (Soulful Voices, Rock Block, Hype &amp; Glory, One Voice Worship) beginning Monday, October 19.<br \/>\nGMCVA phase two voting, where viewers choose the winning videos in each of seven genre categories, will begin Monday, October 19 and will continue through Friday, November 13.<br \/>\nAmong the GMCVA artist videos eligible for nomination are: Jars of Clay, Francesca Battistelli, Jeremy Camp, The Fray, Mandisa, Billy Ray Cyrus, Tracy Lawrence, Lecrae, Grits (featuring Pigeon John), Trin-i-tee 5:7, The Afters, Mary Mary, tobyMac, Group 1 Crew, David Crowder Band, Bishop Paul Morton, John Tesh, Skillet, Damita, Ann Nesby, Smokie Norful and Marvin Winans, Jr.<br \/>\nFor more information, head over to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gospelmusicchannel.com\/gmcva\" target=\"_blank\">Gospel Music Channel website.<\/a><br \/>\n<i><a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=GospelSoundcheck&amp;loc=en_US\">Click here to subscribe to Gospel Soundcheck by email <\/a>and have the Gospel Soundcheck headlines delivered daily to your email inbox. 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