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Nicole’s Nashville News- August 19
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The Academy of Country Music announced today that the 2022 ACM Awards will air exclusively on Amazon Prime, making it the first major awards show to adopt a streaming only format. The date and location will be announced in the future. The first ACM Award show aired in 1966 making the annual ceremony the longest- running in country music.

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