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Fan-voted awards show for country music videos

The CMT Music Awards is a fan-voted awards show for country music videos and television performances. The ceremony launched in 1967 as Music City News Awards; it is the oldest award show currently airing under Paramount Global. The ceremony originally aired on TNN, prior to its parent company's acquisition of former rival network Country Music Television in 1991. The show would then air on CMT from 2001 to 2021. Beginning in 2022 until the pause in 2025, the show was broadcast live on CBS.^[1][2]

Beginning in 1967, the Music City News Awards were presented yearly by the now—defunct Music City News magazine.^{[citation needed]} In 1988, The Nashville Network (TNN) began a fan—voted awards show dubbed the Viewers' Choice Awards to help the network celebrate its fifth anniversary; two were broadcast in 1988 and 1989.^{[citation needed]} In 1990, the two awards shows merged to become the TNN/Music City News Country Awards.^{[citation needed]} TNN's contract with Music City News ended in 1999, and the magazine ceased publication shortly thereafter.^{[citation needed]}

Country Weekly became the presenting sponsor of the awards show in 2000, and the show was known as Country Weekly presents the TNN Music Awards.^{[citation needed]}

In 2001, as TNN began to phase out its association with country music, the decision was made to shift the awards show to sister network CMT.^{[citation needed]} The 2001 show, known as the TNN/CMT Country Weekly Music Awards, was simulcast on both networks.^{[citation needed]}

When the show moved permanently to CMT, Country Weekly ended its brief association with the production.^{[citation needed]} During this era, viewers voted for the nominees by telephone or mail in traditional categories such as "Entertainer of the Year," "Male/Female Artist of the Year," "Song of the Year," etc.^{[citation needed]} Most of the categories mirrored those on the CMA Awards and ACM Awards, except all awards were fan—voted^{[citation needed]}.

The awards show was completely retooled in 2002 as the CMT Flameworthy Video Music Awards, named for the network's branding concept at the time for its most popular videos. The "Flameworthy" name was coined by program development vice president Kaye Zusmann, and aimed to symbolize the waving of lighters or similar lights at concerts (this was before the current negative meaning of the word flaming from the Internet became more commonplace).^{[citation needed]} The show became more production—based, rather than awards—based, and was modeled after sister network MTV's Video Music Awards. In the process, the traditional awards were shifted to specifically honor the music videos of country artists.^[3]

The show included several non—traditional categories highlighting especially funny, sexy, and patriotic videos; however, these categories were phased out over the years.^[4] The show further differentiated itself from the CMA Awards and ACM Awards by showcasing bluegrass performers such as Alison Krauss and Earl Scruggs.^[3]

In 2003, the show was moved to April but returned to June in 2009 to coincide with the CMA Music Festival (the renamed "Fan Fair") and the influx of tourists to Nashville as well as capitalize on a time when many of the artists would already be in Nashville at once.^{[citation needed]}

The name of the show was changed to the CMT Music Awards in 2005.^[5]

In 2020, the awards were delayed until October due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with that year's CMA Fest not going forward.^{[citation needed]} Initially planned for October 14, a scheduling conflict with that year's Billboard Music Awards caused the ceremony to be pushed back to October 21.^{[citation needed]}

On June 28, 2021, ViacomCBS (now known as Paramount Global) announced that the awards would move to broadcast television on sister network CBS and shift back to April beginning in 2022.^[6][7] CBS subsequently declined to renew its broadcast rights to the ACM Awards (which had also traditionally been held in April), citing declining viewership in comparison to increased rights fees demanded by Dick Clark Productions.^[8][9][10]

In 2023, after more than twenty years in Nashville, the CMT Music Awards were hosted for the first time at the Moody Center in Austin, Texas.^[11][12][13] In February 2025, Bruce Gillmer of Paramount International Networks announced a one-year pause for a few selected events scheduled for 2025, including the CMT Music Awards, as Paramount seeks "to reimagine and optimize [our] events slate going forward".^[14][15]

Carrie Underwood is the most awarded artist overall in CMT Music Awards' history (2005–present), with 25 wins.^[16]

• Video of the Year: Carrie Underwood; ten wins^[17]
• Male Video of the Year: Kenny Chesney; five wins^[18]
• Female Video of the Year: Carrie Underwood; eight wins^[17]
• Collaborative Video of the Year: Carrie Underwood; four wins
• CMT Performance of the Year: Carrie Underwood, Luke Bryan and Jason Aldean (tie); two wins each^[17]

1. ^ Grein, Paul (June 28, 2021). "CMT Music Awards Set to Move to CBS in 2022". Billboard. Retrieved January 16, 2022.
2. ^ "Why The CMT Music Awards Will Not Happen In 2025". iHeart. Retrieved April 5, 2025.
3. ^ ^{a b} Havighurst, Craig (June 12, 2002). "Front-row video". The Tennessean.
4. ^ Cooper, Peter (May 15, 2002). "Look for sexy, funny, patriotic at CMT video awards show". The Tennessean.
5. ^ Cooper, Peter; Brad Schmitt (April 11, 2005). "You might be a redneck if you prognosticate correctly". The Tennessean.
6. ^ White, Peter (June 28, 2021). "CMT Music Awards Move To CBS In 2022". Deadline. Retrieved June 28, 2021.
7. ^ Willman, Chris (June 28, 2021). "CMT Music Awards to Air on CBS Beginning in 2022". Variety. Retrieved June 28, 2021.
8. ^ "CBS Balks at Airing 2022 Academy of Country Music Awards Over $22 Million Asking Price, Declining Ratings". TheWrap. June 16, 2021. Archived from the original on June 14, 2021. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
9. ^ Andreeva, Nellie (August 19, 2021). "Academy Of Country Music Awards To Stream On Amazon Prime Video In Milestone For Award Shows". Deadline. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
10. ^ Willman, Chris (August 19, 2021). "Academy of Country Music Awards Will Bypass Networks, Stream Exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in 2022". Variety. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
11. ^ "Austin or Nashville to host 2024 CMT Music Awards?". April 3, 2023.
12. ^ "Rock, Country and Blues Merge at 2023 CMT Music Awards in Austin". April 2, 2023.
13. ^ "'CMT Music Awards' Moving to Austin from Nashville for 2023 CBS Telecast". November 3, 2022.
14. ^ Szalai, Georg (February 7, 2025). "Paramount Pauses Some Major Events, Including CMT Music Awards, MTV EMAs, Ahead of Skydance Deal Close (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved February 10, 2025.
15. ^ Nicholson, Jessica (February 7, 2025). "Paramount Pauses CMT Music Awards, MTV EMAs and More Events for 2025". Billboard. Retrieved February 10, 2025.
16. ^ Celebretainment, By. "Carrie Underwood wins big at CMT Music Awards". Tulsa World. Retrieved October 22, 2020.^{[permanent dead link]}
17. ^ ^{a b c} "Carrie Underwood Is Now The Most Awarded Artist In CMT History". Forbes. June 7, 2017.
18. ^ "Male Video of the Year winners". CMT. Archived from the original on June 2, 2009.

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