NEW YORK, NY – (March 3, 2025) – Providing a entrance row seat for one of many world’s hottest and longest-running parades, NBC 4 New York will carry unique, dwell protection of the 264th New York Metropolis St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Monday, March 17. Beginning at 11 AM ET and persevering with by way of 3 PM ET, Tri-State viewers can benefit from the over-the-air broadcast on WNBC, on NBCNewYork.com and the NBC 4 App. The Parade may even be obtainable for nationwide and worldwide audiences on some streaming platforms by way of the station’s “NBC 4 New York” streaming channel; go to our web site to study how one can entry our streaming channel.
“WNBC looks forward to continuing the tradition of broadcasting the St. Patrick’s Day Parade and giving our viewers a front-row seat to the world’s largest celebration of Irish heritage. Viewers can expect to see the exceptional sights and sounds all along the iconic New York City Fifth Avenue parade route, on all NBC 4 New York platforms,” mentioned Eric Lerner, President and Normal Supervisor of NBC 4 New York.
“We are particularly delighted this year to honor Mike Benn as our Grand Marshal. Originally from Limerick City, Mike is both a strong advocate for all things Irish and a very experienced parade leader. He has chaired the second largest St. Patrick’s Day parade in New York since 1998 and he and his family have also been helping the City Parade for several years,” mentioned Sean Lane, Chairman of the New York Metropolis St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
Michael A. Benn has been named Grand Marshal of the 2025 New York Metropolis St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Benn is the longtime chairman of the Queens County St. Patrick’s Parade held in Rockaway. To his credit score, in 2013, just some months after the devastation of Superstorm Sandy, he and his committee continued their annual parade, serving to to spice up the morale of the Rockaways neighborhood that had been hit hardest by the storm. He has additionally been a member of the Native 30 Worldwide Union of Working Engineers and Native 608 Carpenters Union and dedicating his time to serving his Rockaway neighborhood.
About NBC 4 New York / WNBCNBC 4 New York / WNBC is the flagship station of the NBCUniversal Native division of NBCUniversal, serving the New York Tri-State space for greater than 75 years and that includes Alfred I. duPont-Columbia, Edward R. Murrow, and Emmy® Award-winning journalists who’re among the many most completed of their discipline. The station consists of the NBC 4 I-Crew, New York’s largest televised investigative reporting unit, Higher Get Baquero which has recovered greater than $15 million for Tri-State shoppers and Storm Crew 4, licensed by WeatheRate for delivering the Tri-State’s most correct native climate forecast utilizing cutting-edge expertise similar to Storm Tracker 4, a high-frequency S-Band twin polarization fastened Doppler climate radar. NBC 4 New York’s digital platforms are additionally among the many most learn and watched within the New York market and embrace the NBC 4 App, devoted Peacock, Roku, Apple TV, Pluto, and Amazon FireTV channels together with distinctive, out-of-home viewing in native taxis.
About New York Metropolis’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade
The New York Metropolis St. Patrick’s Parade marched for the primary time in 1762, fourteen years earlier than the Declaration of Independence was signed in Independence Corridor, Philadelphia. The Parade is considered the most well-liked of the all of the Parades in New York Metropolis, and honors Saint Patrick – the patron Saint of the Archdiocese of New York and Eire. The New York Parade consists solely of marchers and every year hosts some 250,000 marchers and two million spectators. The Parade has many excellent marching bands, bagpipers in marching formations, high-school and faculty bands from all through america and from all around the world. The event is televised dwell to tens of millions of households nationwide for 4 hours by host station WNBC. The published is webcast dwell by way of the web by way of the Parade’s website at NYCStPatricksParade.org and thru WNBC’s website at www.nbcnewyork.com.
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