The 2025 MTV Video Music Awards will make its debut on CBS, announced on Thursday. The awards show, which celebrates the best music videos of the year, will air on CBS for the first time. The three-hour broadcast will also simulcast on MTV and stream on Paramout+. A one-hour live pre-show will air across Paramount Media Networks.

MTV Video Music Awards, or VMAs, are moving to CBS for future ceremony broadcasts after 40 years on the network.

The MTV Video Music Awards have been the event of the year for the cable network for four decades, but this year, for the first time ever, the awards show will alter where it airs. Instead of running exclusively live on MTV,