{"id":36558,"date":"2026-09-08T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=36558"},"modified":"2026-09-08T06:53:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T10:53:18","slug":"lainey-wilson-set-to-host-cma-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/09\/lainey-wilson-set-to-host-cma-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Lainey Wilson Set To Host CMA Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Lainey Wilson<\/strong>&nbsp;is returning to host the 60th Annual CMA Awards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This marks the 12-time CMA Award winner&#8217;s third consecutive year as host and second consecutive year solo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The announcement was made live on ESPN&#8217;s College GameDay during the show&#8217;s 500th road broadcast, held at Louisiana State University in Wilson&#8217;s home state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;I couldn\u2019t be more excited to be hosting the CMA Awards again this year, especially with it being the 60th anniversary. I\u2019ve had so much fun hosting the last two years, and this one\u2019s going to be extra special. Can\u2019t wait to see y\u2019all in November!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The ceremony will be broadcast live from Nashville&#8217;s Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday, November 18, at 8 p.m. on ABC, Disney+, and Hulu next day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nominees will be revealed September 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lainey Wilson Returns To Host &quot;The 60th Annual CMA Awards&quot;\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AJmwaYSt4AA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lainey Wilson&nbsp;is returning to host the 60th Annual CMA Awards. This marks the 12-time CMA Award winner&#8217;s third consecutive year as host and second consecutive year solo. The announcement was made live on ESPN&#8217;s College GameDay during the show&#8217;s 500th road broadcast, held at Louisiana State University in Wilson&#8217;s home state. &#8220;I couldn\u2019t be more","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":36559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1044,7688,7689,2991,62],"class_list":["post-36558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-cma-awards","tag-host","tag-hosting","tag-lainey-wilson","tag-nashville"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-16 03:30:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/09\/lainey-wilson-set-to-host-cma-awards\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36560,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36558\/revisions\/36560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}