Macy's Announces Changes For Thanksgiving Day Parade: For First Time Ever, It Will Be TV-Only

[brooklynite]

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Source: WCBS News

The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade will be dramatically scaled back.

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This year, the parade won’t go down the normal 2.5 mile route from the Upper West Side. Instead, performances will contained in a small area in Herald Square for TV cameras only – there will be no live spectators.

Something else that won’t be happening: The traditional balloon inflation the night before, near the American Museum of Natural History.

Among the other changes:
* About 75% fewer participants.
* The event will instead be stretched out over two days
* No one under the age of 18 will be allowed to take part, meaning no regional high school or college marching bands


Read more: https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/09/14/macys-announces-changes-for-thanksgiving-day-parade-for-first-time-ever-it-will-be-tv-only/

[BigmanPigman]

1. Are Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations with family,

New Year's celebrations, etc all canceled? Thanks a lot tRump!!! This is your fault!

[yuiyoshida]

2. All holidays are going to be different this year.

Thanks to Trump life in America has changed drastically.

[BigmanPigman]

3. You mean..

"Thanks to Trump death in America has changed dramatically".

[Sherman A1]

4. Sad, but no surprise

I really wouldn't expect the parade to go on at all.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Philly already cancelled its Thanksgiving parade (oldest in the nation)

along with every other parade and/or large event scheduled through the end of February, and did so way back in mid-July. But the local ABC network that usually broadcasts it, will be doing a television "celebration" - https://6abc.com/6abc-thanksgiving-parade-channel-6-philadelphia-2020/6316935/

This also means no Mummers Parade on New Years Day 2021.

We are NOT going to have a repeat of 1918 here in THIS city!

[applegrove]

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