# The 2025 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade: Time, Hosts & Performers
The 2025 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will be a special one. Last year, the event celebrated its 100th anniversary, and this year, there will once again be professional and amateur performers, as well as eye-popping balloons, to entertain everyone. The parade began in 1924 as a party of Macy’s new space in New York City, dubbed the “world’s largest store.” The first big balloon came in 1927, with a helium-filled Felix the Cat, and once the parade began national TV broadcasts in 1948, it became an institution. Find out how to watch this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and see the 2025 performer lineup.
## What time Is The 2025 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade?
The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade broadcast will begin at 8:30 a.m.
## Who Will Host the 2025 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade?
As usual at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade,*Today’s* savannah Guthrie and Al Roker will be joined by former *Today* host Hoda Kotb who remains very popular with the morning show’s audience after exiting early this year.
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