How to watch the 2025 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade live online or on TV, including free options

New York’s annual balloon-filled extravaganza will ring in Turkey Day and the holiday season. Here’s how cord-cutters can catch it. A Thanksgiving tradition since 1924, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has not quite turned 100 years-old yet. How is this possible you might wonder? Because it was skipped for three years—1942, 1943, and 1944—during World War II.