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

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,

The annual event was canceled by its parent company, Paramount Global, along with several other awards shows. Find out why.

A memo obtained by Hollywood Reporter said with company merger Paramount would "reimagine and optimize [their] events slate going forward."

CMT is among the Paramount divisions hit with extensive layoffs in 2024. Meanwhile, cable networks like Nickelodeon and MTV are reportedly not priorities for Skydance. Amid the company’s competitors shedding or restructuring cable networks, it’s possible those brands will be dropped from the Paramount portfolio altogether.

CMT Music Awards are officially on pause as Paramount Global continues its merger with Skydance Media. The MTV Europe Music Awards, MTV Millennial Awards and Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards Mexico are also affected,

(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.