The CW has pulled the Miss USA and Miss Teen USA pageants from its broadcast schedule just one week before the competitions were set to air, sending both events back to streaming after the two sides failed to finalize production terms.
Miss Teen USA had been scheduled for Wednesday and Miss USA for Thursday, marking the network’s return to carrying the pageants after skipping last year’s telecasts entirely. Instead, both competitions will stream on the Queen Beauty Network, the same platform that carried them in 2025. The CW said in a statement that after careful consideration and conversations with the Miss USA Organization, it decided to forgo next week’s broadcasts, wishing the organization and this year’s contestants well.
The pageant organization offered a similar account in a statement posted to Instagram, saying it had identified a contractual issue with its production arrangements roughly two weeks earlier and had worked since then to preserve the CW broadcast without success.
Neither side detailed the specific dispute. The falling-out comes just two months after The CW and BDE Miss USA, the pageant’s current owner, struck a new multi-year agreement to air this year’s competitions, following a three-year broadcast deal originally signed in 2024. That earlier arrangement did not hold either: last year’s pageants aired only on Queen Beauty Network after ownership changes disrupted the network partnership, making 2025 the first year Miss USA went untelevised on broadcast since 1965.
This year’s competitions arrive during another turbulent stretch for the organization. Earlier this month, Miss USA dethroned former Miss North Carolina USA Brittany Boltinhouse, citing conduct that violated organizational policies around racism, homophobia and transphobia; runner-up Myla Hadley assumed the title in her place.
The pageant has weathered repeated controversy since 2024, when Miss USA titleholder Noelia Voigt and Miss Teen USA titleholder UmaSofia Srivastava both resigned within weeks of each other, citing what they described as bullying and mistreatment by pageant leadership. Ownership of the Miss USA franchise has also changed hands multiple times in recent years, with rights now held by Brodeur Beauty founder Thom Brodeur under a reported 10-year exclusive license.
