CBS Schedules CMT Music Awards for April 2022, Setting Up Challenge to ACM Awards

variety.com:

Chris Willman Music WriterCBS and the Academy of Country Music Awards may have gone their separate ways, but CBS and the idea of country awards in the month of April have not.The network announced Thursday morning that it had scheduled its first airing of the CMT Music Awards for April 3, 2022, a declaration that follows quickly on the heels of ViacomCBS’ surprise revelation June 29 that the premiere of he annual awards show would be moving from its cable namesake, CMT, to its much larger broadcast sister.With the CMT Music Awards moving from its usual June berth to a spring slot, what’s lost on no one is that April is the month that CBS had almost always broadcast the ACM Awards, until the network and the academy came to loggerheads over.