The American New music Awards are possible to get a a single-year sabbatical, Wide variety has uncovered.
Pursuing news saying that the Billboard Music Awards would go the date to Nov. 19, 2023, generally a Sunday held for the AMAs, it would feel to depart parent enterprise Dick Clark Productions no choice but to bump the AMAs to 2024, when it can take the May slot beforehand held by Billboard.
Numerous resources say that neither has secured a broadcast companion and producer Dick Clark Productions, which is owned by Penske Media Corp. (mum or dad corporation of Variety and Billboard) had to make the selection of which clearly show to toss its bodyweight guiding. Since PMC owns the publication Billboard, insiders suggest that the imagining was to market its very own model. Chatter between audio market pros is that the AMAs, which launched in 1973, was turning out to be stale.
Having said that, a spokeswoman for PMC asserted that discussions are ongoing for both equally awards telecasts. “We have presents on both of those reveals from networks and streamers,” a PMC spokeswoman reported.
ABC, which has partnered with the American Music Awards for some time, was unaware of the BBMAs transform right until it was declared publicly on March 15. A source near to the circumstance tells Wide variety that no conclusions have been built about a deal renewal for the AMAs.
As for the BBMAs, sources also confirm that NBC, which has aired that display considering the fact that 2018, did not select it up this year. In its place, NBC is centered on expanding its People’s Alternative Awards franchise in the fall, together with the new People’s Choice Country Awards coming in September.
The scores for the AMAs have been steadily declining in latest many years, with the exhibit reaching a reduced in 2022 with a .6 rating among grownups in the important 18-49 demographic and just 3.53 million full viewers. In the two many years prior, the clearly show had been even, garnering a 1. ranking and 4 million viewers in both 2021 and 2020.
The AMAs had been made by Dick Clark for ABC after the broadcaster lost the Grammys broadcast legal rights to CBS. By the mid 1980s, the AMAs experienced become a highly effective competitor to the Grammys — even attracting far more viewers on some yrs, particularly for the duration of the peak of Michael Jackson’s popularity in the early portion of that decade. The AMAs at first ran in winter — both January or February — from 1974 to 2003. In 2003, it also ran a next clearly show in November, exactly where it has aired since (until eventually this yr).
As for the Billboard Songs Awards, the kudocast introduced on Fox in 1990, in which it remained by means of 2006 and always aired in early December. The awards demonstrate then went darkish for various several years, until eventually it was revived for ABC in 2011 and positioned in a new Could slot — presumably to stay away from conflict with the AMAs. It remained on ABC by 2017, but the demonstrate moved to rival broadcaster NBC in 2018. It has aired on that network by means of 2022, commonly occupying that Sunday in May perhaps slot.
The BBMAs have accomplished slightly better at retaining their scores about the earlier handful of years, obtaining a .7 rating in both of those 2021 and 2022 and drawing an typical of 2.8 million whole viewers in 2021 and 2.6 million in 2022.
Of training course, awards shows have to be accredited to broadcast — and these days, at times streaming — associates, or they really do not get ratings at all. So with out a network definitively lined up to just take on the AMAs next calendar year — or the BBMAs, this 12 months, for that matter — the actual result of this shuffle will have to have some time to get condition.
ABC declined to remark Friday.
(Jennifer Maas contributed to this report.)
