Chris Willman Music WriterIt may seem counterintuitive that June’s annual CMT Music Awards would not premiere on CMT each year, but the formerly cable-only only show is moving up in the world, as it’ll move to the CBS prime-time schedule beginning in summer 2022.It probably isn’t coincidental that CBS and the Academy of Country Music Awards have recently gone through a fairly public breakup, creating the opportunity for the network to look no further than within its own ViacomCBS house for a rebound romance.
If the usual June date for the CMTs holds, it’s not that far off from the April date that used to be set in stone for the ACMs on CBS every year, and it’ll allow the network to put all those resources into an in-house franchise and not.
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