Chris Willman Music WriterThe Academy of Country Music Awards’ producers are hitting the reset button on the show in all kinds of ways for the 2022 show.
On top of the previous announcement that the ACMs would be moving exclusively to Prime Video instead of a broadcast or cable network, Amazon Studios announced Thursday that the event will be moving from its usual Las Vegas arena to a new stadium, and will have its air date bumped up by a month this spring.Allegiant Stadium, a venue with a capacity of almost 70,000 that opened in 2020, will host the coming ACMs, in place of the far smaller local arenas that were previously the setting for the show.And the airdate will be March 7, 2022 — about five weeks earlier than where the ACMs.
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