Television and Website
The parade is televised on ABC, NBC, Univision (in Spanish), HGTV, The Travel Channel, RFD TV, and KTLA (the latter three offer interruption-free coverage, although KTLA repeats the parade throughout the day with commercials). WGN-TV in Chicago will carry KTLA's uninterrupted coverage of the 2009 parade (WGN and KTLA are both owned by Tribune Broadcasting). Until 2007, the parade was also broadcast on CBS, and KTTV also televised the parade for many years until 1995. Joining the broadcast in 2010 was the Hallmark Channel.
The 1954 edition of the parade was also the first program ever televised in the NTSC color television format nationwide on NBC.
- The 2009 Parade was broadcast to 217 countries (79 countries live) in over 20 languages.
- The Tournament of Roses website had approximately 13 million hits during the week of the 2009 parade.
- The website was viewed in 150 countries.
- The 2010 Parade was watched via TV in 127 countries including China.
- The 2011 Parade had a total television reach of approximately 47 million television viewers in the U.S. and was seen by approximately 28 million viewers internationally.
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