Ding Dong, CMT Awards are dead!

Oh thank goodness. The CMT prices are no longer, at least for now and probably forever. And it couldn’t have come before or to a more deserved presentation. Country Music’s ugly stone children of an award exhibition were a forum for some of the most embarrassing moments from B-level stars over the years, and now these meaningless prices will hopefully end up where they belong: the trash of history.

From Zac Brown’s Strange F-bomb In the midst of crater of his career, to Kelsea Ballerini’s forced Drag Queen Story Hour Performance in 2023 – who simply present Drag Queens on a country show will miraculously get gay to nobody gives a $ hit, it had all become even unintentionally comical.

We knew this is likely to come after Latest round of blood discharge on CMTthat included the company’s high -profile senior vice president, Leslie Fram and other top talent. The cuts came in the midst of the cost -saving downfall cycle that the cable network has suffered for years now, as they were dependent on original content as opposed to doubling it.

An imminent merger of CMT’s parent company Paramount Global with David Ellison’s Skydance media has accelerated cost cuts as they appear to throw $ 500 million in the overhead in front of the merger. Although the company has promised not to touch MTVS VMA prices, which are still a cultural moment, or Nickelodeon’s Kid’s Choice Awards, all their other awards get the ax, including CMTS according to an internal memo.

One of the worst aspects of the CMT prices was how media out of country music (and some dyslexic land fans) could never tell the difference between them and the much older and honorable country music association awards or CMAs. Not that in a bad year, the CMAs are something to write home about or be proud of as a land fan either. But at least there was some story and meaning behind them.

As fan-voiced prices that were centered around videos, CMT prices always had a credibility problem don’t know on a fanbase that just didn’t have it. The CMT awards were previously a midpoint in June’s CMA party in Nashville, but moved strangely to Austin over the last few years, where they were even more out of place.

Hypothetically, you could track the prices back to the Old Music City News Awards, which was launched in 1967, which then became fan-voted viewers’ election prices sent on TNN in 1988. Then in 2001 they moved to Sister Network CMT, and in 2002, They were completely re-induced around videos and became the fan-tuned CMTs. But every story was softened out of prices through the various iterations. Every time a legendary national athlete went, there are few if anyone would mention how many CMT prices they prize as if they would CMAS or ACM Awards.

In the end, the CMT awards just became a distraction in the country and seemed to devalue all country music awards that became even more superfluous and omnipresent when NBC and Grand Ole Opry launched their poorly imagined People’s Choice Country Awards, and there are 17 nominations to Beyoncé last Cycle (she won 0 of the fan-voiced prices). CMT’s allegedly also tried to give Beyoncé a prize in 2024 and invented one of the whole cloth to lure her to the presentation. Beyoncé rejected.

It is reasonable to question how long for the world’s shows shows, but the CMTs always seemed like an excessively mute exercise. At least Country Music’s 2nd Layer Talent will forever have a practical weight when threatening quick burst of wind threatens to blow up papers from desks. But other than that is a CMT price almost good for nothing.

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