CBS and Dick Clark Productions (DCP) have announced a new five-year deal to broadcast the American Music Awards (AMAs) on CBS and stream the show live on Paramount+. The new agreement kicks off with the May 2026 broadcast, which will air live from Las Vegas over Memorial Day weekend, the same weekend and host city as this year’s show.
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This deal will keep the AMAs on CBS through 2030. The Grammy Awards, which have aired on CBS since 1973, will conclude their run on that network with the upcoming show on Feb. 1, 2026. Last October, the Grammys announced a move to Disney outlets beginning in 2027. ABC, Hulu and Disney+ will simulcast the show under a 10-year deal that runs through 2036.
(The Grammys and the AMAs will have essentially switched networks. The AMAs, which originated as a fan-focused alternative to the Grammys, aired on ABC from 1974 to 2022.)
The 2025 AMAs reached more than 10 million unique viewers across its CBS premiere (Monday, May 26) and encores on MTV (May 27), CMT (May 28) and BET (May 29). The CBS broadcast marked the show’s largest audience since 2019 with a 38% increase over its last live airing in 2022 on ABC.
Airing for the first time on Memorial Day, the 2025 AMAs paid special tribute to U.S. troops and veterans from the new luxury resort Fontainebleau Las Vegas. Jennifer Lopez returned as host for the first time in 10 years and opened the show with a medley of nearly two dozen of the year’s biggest hits.
Other performers on the show included Alex Warren, Becky G and Manuel Turizo, Benson Boone, Blake Shelton, Gloria Estefan, Gwen Stefani, Lainey Wilson, Reneé Rapp, ICON Award recipient Janet Jackson; and Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Rod Stewart. The year’s top winner was Billie Eilish.
The American Music Awards is the world’s largest fan-voted awards show. Winners are determined entirely by fan voting. Nominees are determined by fan engagement across streaming, album and song sales, radio airplay and tour grosses. These measurements are tracked by Billboard and its data partner, Luminate.
The American Music Awards broadcasts globally across linear and digital platforms.
The American Music Awards are produced by Dick Clark Productions, which is owned by Penske Media Eldridge, a joint venture between Eldridge Industries and Billboard parent company Penske Media.
