In a pre-pandemic world, tonight CMT would have held its annual CMT Music Awards. But with most people still sheltering in place and the country still struggling to contain the spread of COVID-19, CMT postponed the show to Oct.
14.Instead, the cable music outlet pivoted to CMT Celebrates Our Heroes: An Artists of the Year Special. Simulcast also on Paramount Network, TV Land and Pop TV, the two-hour special featured country artists saluting the now-familiar undeniably deserving heroes, such as frontline medical workers, and the less obvious, including farmers, truckers, grocery store workers, the military and other unheralded groups who have risen to the occasion.To CMT’s credit, it took what has now become a standard and somewhat.