Name: Gimme the Mike
Genre: Music
Released: 2004-06-02
Cast: Cece Peniston, Brad Perry, Amanda Jahn

Similar to "American Idol" except this is produced by local television stations across the country and stays at the local level. The concept is distributed by Post-Newsweek Television. Here is how it breaks down: The market-exclusive program auditions locals at area malls or at the studio. >From that pool of 500+, 35 are chosen (30 primary contenders plus five alternates) by the station producers to go on to the televised semi-finals. Each week for 6 weeks, five singers face-off in front of a panel of judges to be scored on a 40-point scale. The winner each week earns a spot in the final 5. The home audience gets to choose a wild card singer out of the 4 remaining singers. The five wild cards compete to find one to move on to the finals as well. In the finals, one will walk away with a grand prize package and recognition as a local singing sensation.

KSL-TV/Salt Lake City, WDIV/Detroit, WNBC/New York, WPXI/Pittsburgh, WJXT/Jacksonville, and KMWB/Minneapolis are a few of the many stations who have produced local versions of "Gimme The Mike!" Shows have been produced on location at casinos, theaters, and in the studio.

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