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Thanksgiving Parade coverage

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Hi all,Happy Thanksgiving to all of you.ok did anybody get a chance to see the parade from Macy's on NBC and CBS,please post comment here,I've been watching NBC's version of the parade.ABC left out in the cold
The other nets are helping them with the Disney plugs.btw.when the last time did ABC ran the Macy's parade.
 
WPPCProductions said:
when the last time did ABC ran the Macy's parade.
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I don't think they ever did have a parade on Thanksgiving -- as is now, ABC's stations would fill the time themselves with syndicated or local programming in the morning, as with all other days.
 
CBS: Unlike NBC, it's live nationwide. Excellent picture in hi-def (my first time watching it that way). But Carrie Underwood? Why?

NBC: As always, NBC's tape-delayed (except for the Eastern time zone) coverage is irrelevant unless you are a Broadway lover on the east coast. It's 9:50 AM MST as I write this, and no parade yet - just the usual Broadway plugola. I'm going back to CBS - football starts in a few minutes. ;D
 
I just tuned in to CBS for a few minutes and when Santa came by all I heard was them correcting themselves about using the term "Holidays" and not Christmas. Good grief! Do they actually realize how out of touch they are with the rest of America?
 
Does Macy's still run the parade? I watched a lot of the CBS coverage this morning and didn't hear a word about Macy's. Given the length of time that venerable department store has run this parade, I find it odd to NOT hear of them this year.

Later . . . .
 
Matt Smith said:
Does Macy's still run the parade? I watched a lot of the CBS coverage this morning and didn't hear a word about Macy's. Given the length of time that venerable department store has run this parade, I find it odd to NOT hear of them this year.
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You will only hear "Macy's" on NBC's coverage. CBS doesn't show (or can't show?) the portion of the parade in the vicinity of the Herald Square area where Macy's is, while NBC is all over that area. I don't know if CBS can even say 'Herald Square' or not. The way I've seen it historically, if you like the part of the parade by Central Park and Columbus Circle, you watch CBS, but if you like the south end by the big department store where performers stop and sing/dance, you watch NBC.
 
easttxtv said:
Matt Smith said:
Does Macy's still run the parade? I watched a lot of the CBS coverage this morning and didn't hear a word about Macy's. Given the length of time that venerable department store has run this parade, I find it odd to NOT hear of them this year.
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You will only hear "Macy's" on NBC's coverage. CBS doesn't show (or can't show?) the portion of the parade in the vicinity of the Herald Square area where Macy's is, while NBC is all over that area. I don't know if CBS can even say 'Herald Square' or not. The way I've seen it historically, if you like the part of the parade by Central Park and Columbus Circle, you watch CBS, but if you like the south end by the big department store where performers stop and sing/dance, you watch NBC.
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I watched part of the CBS coverage with my daughter and I definitely like it better because of being live and none of the overkill of plugging Broadway shows that NBC does.

I didn't watch over several years until my daughter got old enough to be interested, but when did CBS go to carrying only the Macy's parade in NYC (even if they don't have permission to use the name) instead of segments of several different parades?
 
CBS's vantage point for their parade coverage has always been Times Square with another personality (this year, Marissa Janet Winokur of "The Talk") over at Columbus Circle.

But until some years ago, their telecast was called "The CBS All-American Thanksgiving Day Parade" with taped segments from parades in Dallas, Toronto, and Hawaii (I think) to go along the Macy's one. Until KTVF switched from CBS to NBC in 1996, this was our only parade coverage here in Fairbanks.

The best part about the CBS coverage? Unlike NBC's, the floats just breeze along the parade route!
 
I tape NBC's coverage and ff through the whole thing just to see what/who's in it this year. BION I don't object to the B'way content. Then again, having lived my entire life in either the Philly or Balt. markets, I can "relate" to NYC more than perhaps most Americans.

I'd tape CBS's coverage as well if it weren't opposite NBC's. In fact, our household has 2 VCRs. But I'm afraid if I tried to tape both, other members of the hh might object.

ixnay
 
In Houston, We had Our Annual H-E-B Holiday Thanksgiving Day, which was carried by KHOU-TV, A CBS Affilliate, in which case it was shown live and then it was replayed twice. And all of that was done in lieu of CBS's Thanksgiving Day Parade's 3-Hour live Coverage.
 
CBS used to cover at least four parades: the Macy's in New York,
the Gimbels' in Philadelphia, the J.L. Hudson Parade in Detroit, and
Eaton's Santa Claus Parade (on tape, it was held several days before
Thanksgiving) in Toronto; one year they even had the Carolinas' Carrousel
Parade in Charlotte (an annual fixture on WBTV).

While ABC doesn't carry the Macy parade, CBS is out of the Tournament
of Roses Parade now. And, of course, ABC has the Walt Disney World
Parade on Christmas Day.
 
I do like that in recent years that CBS has gone to using their morning show and sports people to host rather than using soap and prime time stars. Some people from certain cleaner prime time sitcoms might have been OK, (Even that's getting more difficult now.) but I've always thought it was weird for them to be using people from daytime and prime time soaps and cop shows to host what is supposed to be a family oriented event.
 
On the soap front, the ranks have diminished in the past couple of years...and they have none in New York.

That said, even if a soap star is hosting something, if the kiddos aren't watching, it's not like they know anything about who said person is--for the purposes of that morning, they're just some person hosting a parade, no more, no less.
 
Of the four parades CBS has mentioned, only Macy's happens to be the only longest-running parade sponsored by one major company. The Other three parades are now taken over by different owners: The Gimbel's parade is now sponsored by IKEA, and being broadcast by WPVI-6abc; The Hudson's Thanksgiving Day Parade has now been renamed America's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and it is now carried by WDIV-Local 4-An NBC station; And The Toronto Santa Claus Day Parade-which was sponsored by Eaton's-A now defunct department store chain-Is now carried across Canada by CTV. And that happens to your update on what happened to the other parades that were once carried by CBS.
 
The Thanksgiving Parade on CBS I watched. Not really a fan of NBC as they air the shows. CBS could of used someone better for street coverage instead of someone from the Talk. Only negative about the CBS coverage. Other then that it was perfect and in HD this year.
 
imhomerjay said:
On the soap front, the ranks have diminished in the past couple of years...and they have none in New York.
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Actually, One Life To Live is the only New York-based soap left; all others are in Los Angeles.

And the America's Thanksgiving Day Parade is also syndicated nationally on many stations.
 
bpatrick said:
CBS used to cover at least four parades: the Macy's in New York,
the Gimbels' in Philadelphia, the J.L. Hudson Parade in Detroit, and
Eaton's Santa Claus Parade (on tape, it was held several days before
Thanksgiving) in Toronto; one year they even had the Carolinas' Carrousel
Parade in Charlotte (an annual fixture on WBTV).

While ABC doesn't carry the Macy parade, CBS is out of the Tournament
of Roses Parade now. And, of course, ABC has the Walt Disney World
Parade on Christmas Day.
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I also recall CBS also airing highlights from the Aloha Parade in Honolulu as part of their "All-American Thanksgiving Day Parade" coverage in the 80s and early '90s.
 
I'm surprised nobody has yet mentioned coverage of the parade taking place not too far from the location of the previous poster: "The McDonald's Thanksgiving Parade" on WGN in Chicago, carried on "WGN America". Surprised they didn't blackout references to "The CW" on one of the floats...

bpatrick said:
While ABC doesn't carry the Macy parade, CBS is out of the Tournament of Roses Parade now...
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Which was the strongest Tournament of Roses Parade affiliate? :D
 
Troy Goodwin said:
In Houston, We had Our Annual H-E-B Holiday Thanksgiving Day,
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What's H-E-B?

Edit: Just did a Wiki. H-E-B is a San Antonio-based supermarket chain. First time I heard/read of a supermarket chain sponsoring a parade. :-[ ;D

ixnay
 
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