After taking a time-out since 2022, American Music Awards will return to the air in a new time frame – Memorial Day – as well as from a new city, Las Vegas, and on its new network, CBS.
Dick Clark Productions and the network had annoyed last fall that the show would return to Memorial Day this weekend this year, but Monday’s announcement solidifies the details, with confirmation that AMA will be seen on the actual holiday, May 26, live at all times zones, at. 20 et and 17.00 pt. In addition to its CBS broadcast, Telecast will also be streamed on Paramount+.
No place in Las Vegas has yet been announced and host and other details have not yet been revealed.
The announcement of the show’s flight date said that Memorial Day Holiday -Kaj would not be temporary for the broadcast, which indicates a plan for AMAs to “pay tribute to our country’s troops.”
In the streaming area, Paramount+ with Showtime subscribers will be able to stream the live flow of their local CBS connected, and access the show on request. Paramount+ essential subscribers will not have access to live stream that night but will be able to look at it on request the day after the special air.
The AMA brand has not been completely absent from the air on the two and a half years since the regular edition of the long-term price exhibition was last broadcast. In October last year, after raising AMA after the end of a long-term agreement with ABC, CBS was sent an introduction one in the form of “American Music Awards 50th anniversary special.”
The 2024 specially drew significant ratings and marked a large uptick from the poorly ranked final installation of AMAS in its former network in 2022. While an anniversary special versus a regular edition of the show may not have been a strict apple-apple comparison, CBS and Clark Productions boasted that grade growth between showing marked “the greatest growth of growth from a music special or price exhibition in the world. “
When the last regular scheduled broadcast of AMA took place in 2022, it was in the show’s traditional autumn time frame, on its traditional network and in its traditional city, in the fall from Los Angeles at ABC. The last show was broadcast on November 20, 2022 from Microsoft Theater in LA with Wayne Brady as host. The 2022 show had a 0.6 rating among adults in the key 18-49 demographic and 3.53 million total viewers, a record low for AMAS viewers.
Spring 2023, Amount reported That the AMAs would take a Sabbatical, with things that are still up in the air at that time if an ABC deal was to be renewed or the show would move to another network. Meanwhile, another Clark production, Billboard Music Awards, was moved into AMA’s traditional autumn site.
The AMAs were created by Dick Clark for ABC in 1974, when the network had lost its business to broadcast Grammys to CBS and was looking for a new musical event. During a time in the 1980s, Ama even went out Grammys when it comes to viewers. The AMAs were originally broadcast in January or February until the transition to the Thanksgiving season 2003-2022.
Amount The parent company PMC owns Dick Clark Prods. In a joint venture with Eldridge.
