The return of the Soul Train Music Awards to television in September 2026, simulcast on BET and CBS, the first broadcast of the ceremony since 2023. Three years off air and back on two channels at once. The record files the gap and the pair of networks.
The 2026 Soul Train Music Awards, the first to air since 2023, going out on BET and CBS together. The record notes that the internet treated the return as the story and the awards as the occasion, and that it has no winners to list because the show was still ahead at the time of writing.
Seen in the summer of 2026 in the announcement and in the replies, which were mostly people posting the phrase 'it's back' and a clip from a much older ceremony. The record does not know which year the clips were from and did not ask.
I learned in 2026 that the Soul Train Awards had been off air since 2023 by reading that they were coming back, which is the usual way I learn things. The record notes this and lists the term as alive pending the broadcast.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
