Leslie Fram.

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      THE BUSINESS Creative Space Afew hours after Leslie Fram discussed how the COVID-19 outbreak might affect the entertainment industry - and talked about bringing DIY hand sanitizer to victims of the deadly March 3 tornado that devastated Middle Tennessee - the Nashville-based exec found out she had her own brush with the virus. Fram, the senior vp of music strategy at CMT (Country Music Television), was among the network staffers who worked a March 5 Rebuilding Tennessee Telethon where one attendee tested positive for the coronavirus. For Fram, who's been at CMT since 2011, 2020 means pushing for equal airplay for female artists (including the long-shunned Dixie Chicks), planning their marquee awards show (CMT Music Awards) during a pandemic, helping evolve a genre full of "purists" and navigating the merger of newly combined parent company ViacomCBS. [Extracted from the article]
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