The Academy of Country Music awards and the Country Music Association awards both recognize the best in country, but how do ...

Each year, the Country Music Association Awards ceremony -- known as the CMA Awards -- is one of the genre's most-anticipated events of the year. It began in 1967 as an un-televised ceremony in ...

The first CMA Awards, otherwise known as the CMA Awards Banquet and Show, took place in Nashville in 1967 — a year after the ACMs. In 1968, the award show was broadcast on NBC Television for the ...