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The American Music Awards, a fixture on ABC from 1974 to 2022, is transferring to CBS. The primary present on its new community is ready for Sunday, Oct. 6, dwell on each coasts at 8:00 p.m. ET and 5:00 p.m. PT and streaming on Paramount+.
The official announcement was made on Friday (April 26) by CBS and Dick Clark Productions (DCP), which is producing the 2024 AMAs. Nominees are primarily based on key fan interactions as mirrored on the Billboard charts – together with streaming, album gross sales, music gross sales and radio airplay.
The AMAs are the third main awards present that CBS has picked up previously few years, following the CMT Music Awards (in 2022) and the Golden Globes (earlier this yr, having beforehand broadcast the present in 1981-82). CBS has additionally been the long-time house of the Grammy Awards (since 1973), the Tony Awards (since 1978) and the Kennedy Middle Honors (additionally since 1978).
With the AMAs leaving ABC, the Oscars are ABC’s longest-running awards present. The Oscars moved from NBC to ABC in 1976.
The AMAs had been created as a fan-based different to the Grammys. The primary two Grammy dwell telecasts in March 1971 and March 1972 aired on ABC. When the Grammys shifted to CBS for the March 1973 telecast, ABC seemed for a present to fill that void and went with Dick Clark’s fan-based present.
In December 1973, Clark was engaged on the primary AMAs, which might launch on Feb. 19, 1974. The veteran producer knew slightly publicity couldn’t damage, so he discovered time for an interview with Billboard’s Bob Kirsch which ran on web page one of many Dec. 15, 1973 challenge beneath the headline “ABC-TV Slates Favourite Acts’ Awards Feb. 19.”
On the finish of the piece, Clark tried to take the lengthy view of his fledgling present and stated “If that is executed correctly, we could have a present that can final 20 years and can lastly get most people concerned in in style music awards.”
Clark underestimated the longevity of his personal creation. This yr’s AMAs would be the 51st (there have been two exhibits in 2003).
That first present was simply 90 minutes. It’s now three hours. The present within the first 5 years had a decent deal with three broad genres – pop/rock, soul/R&B and nation. It now acknowledges way more genres, together with hip-hop, Latin, inspirational, gospel, Afrobeats and Okay-pop.
However, for essentially the most half, the imaginative and prescient that Clark outlined to Kirsch 50 years in the past nonetheless guides the present.
“That is most likely the primary time a significant effort has been made to pattern the U.S. public music style via in style vote. … Up to now, we have now obtained extraordinarily favorable response from these within the music business we have now talked to in regards to the present. They appear delighted on the alternative to be honored by the music-buying public.”
Helen Reddy, Smokey Robinson and Roger Miller co-hosted that first present – every representing one of many three foremost genres. Reddy, who was red-hot on the time, was additionally the inaugural winner of favourite pop/rock feminine artist. Clark was govt producer of that first present. Invoice Lee was producer. John Moffitt directed.
Clark, a grasp showman, was a legend in each music and tv. He obtained a trustees award from the Recording Academy in 1990 and was inducted into the Tv Academy Corridor of Fame in 1992. He died in 2012 at age 82.
DCP is owned by Penske Media Eldridge, a Penske Media Company (PMC) subsidiary and three way partnership between PMC and Eldrige. PMC is the father or mother firm of Billboard.
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