Miss USA & Miss Teen USA Pageants Dropped By The CW Days Before Air
No stranger to controversy over the past several years, the Miss USA and Miss Teen USA pageants have just landed in another. Less than a week before the competitions were set to air on The CW, the network has pulled both from the schedule. It’s not clear why, but in a brief statement to Deadline, […]
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- First observed by CurrentWire: Variety · Aug 21, 2026 at 4:25 PM ET
- Coverage span: 2h 16m
- Coverage: 2 reports from 2 independent publications
- Coverage growth: 1 → 2 publications in 1h 59m

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Miss USA & Miss Teen USA Pageants Dropped By The CW Days Before Air(opens original report in a new tab)VarietyTier B
Miss USA, Miss Teen USA Pageants Pulled From The CW Just a Week Before Air(opens original report in a new tab)The Miss USA and Miss Teen USA pageants have faced several controversies in recent years, and here’s the latest: Just a week before the events were scheduled to air on The CW, they’ve suddenly been pulled from the… — Variety
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CurrentWire ranked this story 77.4 of 100 in the snapshot this page was rendered from.
- Freshness
- 32.4 of 35
- Source authority
- 14 of 20
- Coverage breadth
- 8.5 of 20
- Geographic relevance
- 10 of 10
- Story prominence
- 10 of 10
- Velocity
- 2.5 of 5
Strongest signal: geographic relevance, 10 of 10. How each signal is calculated.
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