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Associated Press: Mobile video-streaming app Meerkat provided a front-row peek at one of the nominees performing during Wednesday’s telecast of the CMT network’s annual music awards. Viacom’s CMT allowed the app to stream Florida George Line while the country-music duo performed a new song, “Anything Goes.” The different perspective was part of a promotion with Pepsico’s Mountain Dew. Meerkat’s live feed was distributed on CMT’s Twitter and Facebook accounts. Mountain Dew plans to retweet the links. The sponsorship is a first for Meerkat, which is competing against Twitter’s Periscope app to create new ways for people to broadcast what’s happening around them.