The Recording Academy’s annual Grammys telecast will transfer to a number of Disney broadcast and streaming properties in 2027.
The Grammys, a five-year fixture at CBS (and extra not too long ago Paramount+), will air concurrently on ABC, Hulu and Disney+ underneath the brand new 10-year deal.
“We are completely thrilled to carry ‘The GRAMMYS’ and different new music packages to the Disney ecosystem,” Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. stated in an announcement. “We are grateful to our longtime companions at CBS and at the moment are honored to hitch Disney, an iconic firm the place creators have at all times been on the forefront. This partnership represents one other necessary milestone within the Academy’s transformation and development and strengthens our potential to meet our mission to uplift and serve musicians world wide.”
Dana Walden, co-president of Disney Entertainment, stated: “As The Walt Disney Company joins forces with The Recording Academy to open this thrilling new chapter within the historical past of ‘The Grammys,’ we accomplish that with satisfaction and gratitude. Live occasions have by no means been extra necessary to our tradition and our business, and we’ve simply acquired one of many flagships, including it to our portfolio of world-class programming throughout all genres.”
According to Disney, the partnership will even embrace the event of recent music specials and tv productions centered across the Grammys.
The change within the Grammys’ broadcast venue comes at a time of dramatic change within the make-up of the Academy. In latest years, the Academy has added 3,000 new girls voters, shedding a few of its 13,000 legacy members. Up to two-thirds of the musicians voting in subsequent 12 months’s Grammy Awards weren’t members of the Recording Academy in 2018.
In a latest report from the Recording Academy, the proportion of academy members who determine as individuals of shade elevated 65% since 2019, whereas the proportion of ladies grew 27%.
“What we’re doing is wanting on the variety of members we’ve and evaluating it to what’s taking place in our music neighborhood: who’s making music, what’s their gender, what’s their age, what’s their ethnicity,” he stated Mason in an interview. “And then we’re making an attempt to be sure that our members are consultant of that.”
