High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ozark Jubilee is the first U.S. network television program to feature country music`s top stars, and was the centerpiece of an unsuccessful strategy for Springfield, Missouri to challenge Nashville, Tennessee as America`s country music capital. The weekly live stage show premiered on ABC-TV on January 22, 1955, was renamed Country Music Jubilee on July 6, 1957, and was finally named Jubilee USA on August 2, 1958. Originating "from the heart of the Ozarks," the Saturday night variety series helped popularize country music in America`s cities and suburbs, drawing more than nine million viewers. The ABC Radio version was heard by millions more starting in August 1954.