Idol Headlines for 11/20/11

Pia Toscano will sing the National Anthem prior to the start of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Championship Ford 400 race at Homestead Miami Speedway, Miami, FL. 3 pm.
Haley Reinhart will attend the Wheeling Lights Festival in Wheeling, IL, beginning at 6:30 pm
Kris Allen will sing the National Anthem at the Green Bay Packers home game 1 pm ET

The American Music Awards air on ABC We’ll be liveblogging beginning at 7 pm ET.

Chris Brown, Adam Lambert and a $500,000 Performance: AMAs EP on What to Expect Sunday

It’s become a sort of semi-annual punchline for the music industry — or any entertainment company putting on an event at downtown Los Angeles’ Nokia Theater, for that matter. The venue, a brand new 7,100-seat concrete structure wired for the most sophisticated of TV broadcasts and the most raucous of concerts — and with phone giant Nokia in its name — has the worst cell reception in L.A. It’s a complaint American Music Awards executive producer Larry Klein is all too familiar with. “More than anything else I hear from artists, it’s ‘I can’t get service in here!’ Since the day we moved in,” Klein laughs. “It cracks me up!”

Read more at The Hollywood Reporter

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