When the Academy of Country Music Awards air Sept. 16 on CBS, the winners will be exactly the same as if the show had beamed live from Las Vegas on April 5, as originally planned.
Damon Whiteside, the Academy’s CEO, tells Billboard that the board of directors did discuss whether voting should be altered or extended from the normal Jan.
1-Dec. 31, 2019, eligibility period after the show was postponed because of coronavirus concerns, but the decision was made not to. “The short answer is we’re keeping everything in tact,” Whiteside says. "[Accounting firm] Deloitte has the final results, which they are keeping securely within their possession.
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