Miss America 2020 competition will be held on Thursday , December 19 , 2019 . This will be the 93rd Miss America pageant/competition , though the Miss America Organization will celebrate its 99th anniversary in 2019 . This discrepancy is due to national pageants not being held from 1928 – 1932 or in 1934 because of financial problems associated with the Great Depression . In May 2019 , it was announced that the 2020 competition would be broadcast on NBC after previously being aired on ABC since 2011 . NBC previously aired Miss America pageants for more than two decades until ABC was selected to air the Miss America 1998 pageant in September 1997
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