[Pontiac]

The TV broadcast is of critical importance to the pageant as it generates a significant amount of the organization’s revenue. The organization has long been on precarious financial footing, with a net loss of $575,000 in 2016—the latest available figures—on revenue of $9.8 million, according to federal filings.

The last time I even paused on beauty pageant even during channel surfing was probably in the 1980s.

The Miss America Pageant is cutting its own throat. I predict this will be the final year for the broadcast.

[jjotto]

Yep.

More or less professional contestants complete with cosmetic surgery and forced, politically-charged interviews ruined it long ago.