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Grammy telecast moves to Disney from CBS under new 10-year deal

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Grammy telecast moves to Disney from CBS under new 10-year deal

August Brown
| Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles — In 2027, the Recording Academy’s annual Grammy telecast will move to multiple Disney broadcast and streaming properties.

The Grammy Awards, which have aired on CBS (and most recently Paramount+) for five decades, will be simulcast on ABC, Hulu and Disney+ under a new 10-year deal.

“We are thrilled to bring the Grammys and other new music programs to the Disney ecosystem,” Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. said in a statement. “We are grateful to our longtime partners at CBS and are honored to now join Disney, an iconic company where creators have always been at the forefront. This partnership represents another important milestone in the transformation and growth of the Academy and strengthens our capabilities. to fulfill our mission of inspiring and serving musical people around the world.”

Disney Entertainment Co-Chairman Dana Walden said, “As The Walt Disney Company joins forces with the Recording Academy to usher in this exciting new chapter in Grammy history, we do so with pride and gratitude. Live events have never been this big. is important to our culture and industry, and we have just acquired one of the crown jewels, adding to our portfolio of world-class programming across all genres.”

The partnership will also include the development of new music and Grammy-themed television programming, Disney said.

The change in Grammy broadcast station comes at a time of sweeping changes in the Academy’s membership. The Academy has added 3,000 new female voting members in recent years as it replaces some of its 13,000-strong old membership. Up to two-thirds of the musicians who will vote for next year’s Grammy Awards were not members of the Recording Academy as recently as 2018.

According to a recent Recording Academy report, the percentage of academy members who identify as people of color has increased by 65% ​​since 2019, and the percentage of women has increased by 27%.

“What we do is look at our membership numbers and compare it to what’s going on in our music community – who’s making music, what their gender is, what their age is, what their ethnicity is,” Mason said in an interview. “And then we try to make sure our members reflect that.”