How To Watch Miss USA 2026
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the quintessential American beauty pageant, which will not air on The CW network as originally planned.
The 2026 Miss USA pageant, celebrating its 75th anniversary, features the 2026 festivities, which take place this week. Preliminary pageants already occurred earlier this week. The final showdown, the Miss USA Pageant and Coronation, is scheduled for Thursday, August 27 at 8 p.m. EST, streamed live on the Queen Beauty Network (QBN). A 30-day free trial of QBN is available for those who are not subscribers to the network.
The Miss USA competition is hosted in different locations each year, with the 2025 competition held in Nevada and the 2026 pageants taking place in Florida. The events are happening at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami-Dade County, Florida. The pageant includes competitions, costume shows, interviews, and other pageant-related events.
Miss USA 2026 will be hosted by Ian Ziering, known for his role in Beverly Hills, 90210, and Kenya Moore, a former cast member of Real Housewives of Atlanta and Miss USA 1993. For the 2025 pageant, Emmanuel Acho and Olivia Jordan (Miss USA 2015) were the hosts. However, The CW, which had previously aired the pageants, announced a contractual issue prevented them from airing the 2026 events.
Despite their gratitude towards The CW, they are open to future partnerships. The CW has confirmed they will not air this year's pageants but wishes all contestants well.
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