How To Watch Macy's Thanksgiving Parade Live on TV and via Livestream

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The Macy's Thanksgiving Parade returns this year closer to its usual format, after being closed to spectators in 2020 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

The annual spectacle presented by the department store chain sees several giant floats go by along the streets of Manhattan, which people will be allowed to view in-person this year.

The 95th edition of the parade will feature 15 giant character balloons, 28 floats, 36 novelty and heritage inflatables as well as over 800 clowns, 10 marching bands, nine performance groups and various musical stars, in addition to Santa Claus.

How To Watch the 2021 Thanksgiving Parade Live on TV

The annual event has been broadcast live on the NBC television channel since 1948 and this year is no different.

The parade will be covered live from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. across all time zones on NBC and Telemundo, the Spanish language television network owned by NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises.

The Spanish-language broadcast on Telemundo will be hosted by Ana Jurka and Carlos Adyan from the show En Casa con Telemundo, while Freddy Lomelí will be joining the show live from Sixth Avenue. The Telemundo broadcast will also feature a special appearance by current Miss Universe Andrea Meza.

The November 25 television special will include a music number by Carrie Underwood from her album My Gift (Special Edition), as well as performances of Broadway's best musicals such as SIX, Moulin Rouge! and Wicked. The show will also feature a sneak preview of NBC's Annie Live!, according to a statement from NBCUniversal on November 1.

NBC will broadcast an encore showing of the parade from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. ET.

The 2020 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
The Jennie-O float at the 94th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on November 26, 2020 in New York City. Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for Macy's Inc.

How To Watch the 2021 Thanksgiving Parade via Livestream

For the first time, viewers can access livestream coverage of the parade on Peacock, the new streaming service from NBCUniversal. Online spectators can see more information about how to sign up for Peacock at PeacockTV.com.

The three-hour Thanksgiving parade broadcast across NBC and Peacock will be hosted by Savannah Guthrie, Hoda Kotb and Al Roker from NBC's Today show.

In other firsts, those viewing the parade via Peacock, as well as on the NBC channel, will experience "several whimsical augmented reality effects throughout the show that will add another dose of Macy's magic to the spectacle," NBCUniversal said.

Peacock will also feature a float in the parade, which will be equipped with a camera to offer a unique bird's eye view. The stars of Peacock's original comedy series Girls5eva will be aboard the Peacock float.

The actors from the comedy series—Sara Bareilles, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Paula Pell, and Busy Philipps—will perform the show's song "Famous 5eva."

The 2020 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
A view of the Boss Baby balloon at the 2020 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City. James Devaney/Getty Images
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Soo Kim is a Newsweek reporter based in London, U.K. She covers various lifestyle stories, specializing in travel, health, home/interior design and property/real estate. Soo covered the COVID-19 pandemic extensively from 2020 to 2022, including several interviews with the chief medical advisor to the president, Dr. Anthony Fauci. Soo has reported on various major news events, including the Black Lives Matter movement, the U.S. Capitol riots, the war in Afghanistan, the U.S. and Canadian elections, and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Soo is also a South Korea expert, covering the latest K-dramas—including the breakout hit Squid Game, which she has covered extensively, including from Seoul, the South Korean capital—as well as Korean films, such as the Golden Globe and Oscar-nominated Past Lives, and K-pop news, to interviews with the biggest Korean actors, such as Lee Jung-jae from Squid Game and Star Wars, and Korean directors, such as Golden Globe and Oscar nominee Celine Song. Soo is the author of the book How to Live Korean, which is available in 11 languages, and co-author of the book Hello, South Korea: Meet the Country Behind Hallyu. Before Newsweek, Soo was a travel reporter and commissioning editor for the award-winning travel section of The Daily Telegraph (a leading U.K. national newspaper) for nearly a decade from 2010, reporting on the latest in the travel industry, from travel news, consumer travel and aviation issues to major new openings and emerging destinations. Soo is a graduate of Binghamton University in New York and the journalism school of City University in London, where she earned a Masters in international journalism. You can get in touch with Soo by emailing s.kim@newsweek.com . Follow her on Instagram at @miss.soo.kim or X, formerly Twitter, at @MissSooKim .Languages spoken: English and Korean

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