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The annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade returns for its 98th installment this year and will be broadcast nationwide on Thursday (November 28).
This year's parade is set to take place in New York City in front of a live audience, making its 2.5-mile journey through Manhattan and featuring performers and attendees as it travels from the city's Upper West Side to Midtown.
Fans looking to watch the parade this year are in luck, because there are several ways to tune into the event with or without cable. Find out how below.
How to Watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade
The 98th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade will air on NBC and Telemundo beginning at 8:30 a.m. to noon ET/Tape Delay PT.
How to Stream the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade
If you have cable (or a digital TV antenna like this one from Amazon), you can watch the parade on TV via your local NBC network. The parade will also be streamed live on Peacock Premium (click here for more details on Peacock's Black Friday sale).
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade can be viewed online as NBC can stream via SlingTV, fuboTV, DirecTV Stream or Hulu + Live TV. Most of these services offer free trials, which will allow you to watch the Thanksgiving parade for free online without cable.
How to see the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade in person
There are a small number of viewing areas for the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade, but fans can start arriving as early as 6am. ET on Central Park West between W. 75th and W. 61st streets. Great views can be found on Sixth Avenue between W. 59th and W. 38th Streets, and limited public viewing will be available on the south side of W. 34th St. between Broadway and Seventh Avenue.
Who Appears in the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade?
This year's parade will feature many acts including Jennifer Hudson, Jimmy Fallon & The Roots, Idina Menzel, Kylie Minogue, T-Pain, Coco Jones, Dan + Shay, Chloë, The Temptations, Dasha, Joey McIntyre, Natti Natasha, Rachel Platten, Sebastián Yatra, Walker Hayes, The War and Treaty, Bishop Briggs, Charli D'Amelio, Ariana Madix and others.
Cher, Brandy, ENHYPEN, Jon Batiste, Jesse James Decker, En Vogue, Manuel Turizo, Jabari Banks, Bell Biv Devoe, Pentatonix, Ashley Park, Chicago, David Foster, Katherine McPhee, Alex Smith, Amanda Shaw, Miss America Grace Stanke and Paul Russell.
Last year's parade featured performances from Cher — a Flavor Flav-approved cover of her Christmas disco hit “DJ Play a Christmas Song” — as well as ENHYPEN, Brandy, Pentatonix and more. In past years, Mariah Carey, Rihanna, Miley Cyrus and Ariana Grande are some of the stars who have performed in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
