CMT's parent company, Paramount also cancelled a handful of other award shows for "optimization" and "reimagining."

The CMT Music Awards will no longer take place in 2025. That show and others will pause this year as parent company Paramount Global merges with David Ellison’s Skydance Media. The Hollywood Reporter recently obtained a memo from Paramount president Bruce Gillmer.

CMT Awards have been put on pause.Paramount recently announced that the CMT Music Awards are among several events that will be put on pause in 2025.The beloved fan-voted awards show, part of the Paramount Global family,

(Photo by Erika Goldring/ for CMT) for CMT The CMT Awards will not take place in 2025 as the merger between its parent company, Paramount Global, and Skydance Media continues. The country music award show joins several others,

The CMT Awards won’t air in 2025. In fact, country’s biggest night is one of several major award shows that were cancelled this year. The Hollywood Reporter reports how the ceremony — along with the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choices Awards Mexico and the MTV Europe Music Awards (EMAs) — was a casualty of Paramount Global’s merger with David Ellison’s Skydance Media.