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    • Jul 20, 1995
    Roy Wunsch's Veritas Music becomes the first independent country label financed through a public stock offering on the NASDAQ exchange
    Dec 5, 1995
    Rising Tide becomes Nashville's newest label, with president Ken Levitan and A&R exec Emory Gordy
    Feb 5, 1996
    Sara Evans has breakfast at The Pancake Pantry in Nashville with RCA executive Renee Bell. Within months, she signs with the label
    Jun 7, 1996
    Harold Shedd ends his run as the president of A&M's Nashville division
    Jul 15, 1996
    Lari White parts ways with RCA Records, just one album removed from a gold record. Despite selling 1 million albums in total, she is "in the red" $900,000, and would not make a penny on album sales until the difference is made up in royalties
    Oct 7, 1996
    The Fox News Channel debuts on American cable. The right-wing station will be referenced in Chris Janson's 2017 country hit "Fix A Drink"
    Oct 15, 1996
    Following the closure of A&M Records' country division, sister label Mercury announces that Toby Keith is the only A&M artist it will retain
    Apr 14, 1997
    The website country.com is officially launched. It's eventually renamed CMT.com
    Apr 15, 1997
    James Stroud ends a five-year run as the head of Giant Records in Nashville. The label's roster includes Clay Walker and Daryle Singletary
    Apr 18, 1997
    The Tennessean reports Randy Travis is parting with Warner Bros. Records, where he first rose to prominence 11 years earlier



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