Radio Disney Launches AMERICAN IDOL INSIDER

Radio Disney will launch "American Idol Insider", a weekly hour-long show hosted by former AMERICAN IDOL winners and contestants. Country music singer Scotty McCreery (winner of AMERICAN IDOL season 10), who is currently on the country charts with his Top 3-and- rising smash hit single Five More Minutes, will host the premiere show today, TUESDAY, FEB. 27 at 5:00 p.m. PST/ 8:00 p.m. EST. The new program will air every Tuesday on Radio Disney with encore airings throughout the week and across multiple platforms, including the Radio Disney App, RadioDisney.com, Sirius XM, iHeartRadio, TuneIn, Sonos, Aha Radio and HD Radio.Five More Minutes; is from McCreery upcoming album Seasons Change in stores on Friday, Mar. 16.

Radio Disney is known for identifying and boosting the careers of music talent who
have quickly grown to be some of today's biggest artists; including Selena Gomez,
Alessia Cara, Kelsea Ballerini, Shawn Mendes and its current NBT (Next Big Thing), the recording artists Why Don't We. Its new program will feature the journeys of AMERICAN IDOL alumni each week and include show results and recaps of the first season of AMERICAN IDOL on ABC from Radio Disney on-air personality Morgan Tompkins.

A related video series, "American Idol Insider Direct Message," in which "American Idol"
alumni pose the questions to each other, will offer even more compelling stories. It will
be presented on Radio Disney's digital platforms including in the DisneyNOW app.

American Idol, the iconic series produced by FremantleMedia NORTH AMERICA and
CORE Media Group's 19 Entertainment, revolutionized the television landscape by
pioneering the music competition genre. American Idol, will return to airwaves
on Sunday, March 11 (8:00-10:01 p.m. EDT), at its new home on The ABC Television
Network. Helping to determine who America will ultimately vote for to become the next singing sensation are music industry forces and superstar judges, Luke Bryan, Katy
Perry and Lionel Richie. Emmy ® Award-winning host and producer Ryan Seacrest will
return as host of the beloved series.

Scotty McCreery made history in 2011 as both the first country artist and the youngest
male artist of any genre to debut his first studio album, the platinum-certified Clear as
Day, at No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard Top 200 Albums chart. All three of his albums
have debuted at No. 1 on a Billboard Albums chart, with current combined sales
nearing 3 million copies. He's earned one gold single, three platinum singles and
achieved two Top Ten hits with Feelin' It and See You Tonight. The latter song earned McCreery both his first BMI Award for writing one of the Top 50 Country Songs of 2015 and his first Music Row No. 1 Challenge Coin. He won the 10th season of AMERICAN IDOL in 2011; was named the ACM New Artist of the Year in 2011; won the CMT Music Award for Breakthrough Video of the Year (The Trouble with Girls) in 2012; and AMERICAN COUNTRY AWARDS for New Artist of the Year in 2011 and Breakthrough Artist of the Year in 2013. In 2016, McCreery released his first book, Go Big or Go Home: THE JOURNEY Toward the Dream, and won the Rare Country Grand Ole Opry Moment of the Year Award for his live performance of Five More Minutes, which became an internet favorite viewed by millions on Youtube before becoming the highest charting single of his career thus far. His new album, Seasons Change, will be released on March 16. For more information and his current tour schedule, visit www.ScottyMcCreery.com.