page_title: Planet Country with Big Stu & MJ
section_title: Recognition
hierarchical_section_title: Planet Country with Big Stu & MJ / Recognition
caption_attribution_description: English: The 2017 Peoples Choice Award Trophy awarded to Planet Country for Most Popular Program or Station. Photo taken by co-host MJ the day after the awards ceremony.
context_page_description: Planet Country is a country music radio and video program based in Sydney, Australia and presented by Big Stu and MJ. The program airs a country music format focusing on modern, crossover country. The radio show aired live on SWR Triple 9, broadcasting on 99.9 FM to the Sydney metropolitan every Monday night from 6 pm to 8 pm local time.
context_section_description: In January 2017, the program won a people's choice award at the Tamworth Country Music Festival. The award was for Most Popular Country Music Station or Program.
  Planet Country had been finalists in 2016 and 2018 as well.
  In August 2019, it was announced that MJ was a finalist in the CBAA Awards for 2019, in the 'Excellence in Technical Services' category for his continued work at the program's former station Alive 90.5, where he was a board member. The award winners will be announced at a gala dinner in Melbourne in late October 2019.
caption: A photo of the 2017 Australian Country Music People's Choice Award for Most Popular Radio Program won by Planet Country.
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