Show Dog Ends Promotion: No official word, but Show Dog has disbanded its promotion staff, effective immediately. The label home to Toby Keith, Krystal Keith, Clay Walker and Kimberly Kelly launched in 2005 as a joint venture with Big Machine Records before spinning off to its own entity headed by Toby Keith and his manager, T.K. Kimbrell. Show Dog remains a stand-alone label and is distributed by Thirty Tigers. Eliminated promotion team members include:

• SVP/Promotion Rick Moxley
• VP/Promotion Teddi Bonadies
• Dir./Southwest Regional Promotion Greg Sax
• Dir./Southeast Regional Promotion Blake Nixon
• Dir./Midwest-Northeast Regional Promotion JC Coffey
• Dir./West Coast Promotion Pat Surnegie
• Asst. Laurie Gore