The American Music Awards have taken place yearly since 1973, when Dick Clark created the present after ABC’s contract to air the Grammys expired. It first aired in February, spent most of its early years in January, and since 2003 it’s been airing in November, insulated from many of the different massive awards exhibits on the calendar. But it appears to be like just like the AMAs gained’t be occurring in November — or in any respect in 2023 — probably as a result of they’ve been edged out of their calendar by their company sibling, the Billboard Music Awards.
As Variety experiences, neither the AMAs nor the BBMAs have a TV contract in place for subsequent yr, with ABC opting to not renew its contract for the AMAs and NBC pulling the plug on the BBMAs. Billboard has moved its 2023 telecast to Nov. 19, which historically could be the AMAs date; the considering is that the AMAs will now have to maneuver to the spring, when the BBMAs have historically taken place. Sources for the report speculated that Penske Media Corp., which now owns each Billboard and Dick Clark Productions, was making the transfer to prioritize the Billboard model over the AMAs, a model they imagine is turning into stale.
A spokesperson for Penske advised Variety, “We have offers on both shows from networks and streamers.” It’ll be fascinating to see how this all shakes out.