2024 NAACP Awards: How to Watch Without Cable

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The 55th annual NAACP Awards will air live from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Saturday (March 16) at 8 p.m. ET/PT on BET and CBS, and stream on Paramount+.

Queen Latifah returns as host of this year’s ceremony. Last year, she become the first solo female host since Diana Ross helmed the ceremony in 2000.

Non-televised categories have been announced throughout the week via livestream on naacpimageawards.net and at the NAACP Image Awards dinner scheduled for Friday, March 15. The dinner will be hosted by Friday Night Live’s Nina Parker and Kevin Fredericks, aka KevOnStage.

Keep reading for nominees and presenters, plus ways to watch and stream from anywhere.

How to Watch the NAACP Awards: Ways to Stream

The 2024 NAACP Awards will broadcast live at 8 p.m. ET/PT and 7 p.m. CT. The show will air on BET and CBS and simulcast on BET HER, VH1, CMT, Comedy Central, MTV, MTV2, Paramount Network, Logo, Pop TV, Smithsonian Channel and TV Land.

No cable? No worries! Viewers can stream the NAACP Awards on Paramount+, Philo, Fubo, Sling, Direct TV and Hulu + Live TV.

Paramount+ with Showtime comes with access to your local CBS channel, which means you can stream the NAACP Images Awards live on the platform.

The subscription is $11.99 per month after a free trial for a week (the Paramount+ Essential plan is $5.99/month, plus a free trial).

If you’re looking for the best streaming deal, Philo offers a free trial for the first week. The subscription costs $25 a month after the free trial and gets you access to 70+ cable channels such as BET, A&E, AMC, ID Network, Lifetime, Food Network, HGTV, MTV, OWN, TLC, WE tv and VH1.

Fubo offers a free trial for a week and $20 off streaming plans for the first month. DirecTV has streaming plans with 75+ channels and Sling TV is also $20 for the first month. Viewers streaming internationally can use ExpressVPN to access various platforms.

NAACP Awards Nominees & Presenters

This year’s nominees include Victoria Monét, Usher, Halle Bailey, Fantasia Barrino, Ari Lennox, Burna Boy, H.E.R., Janelle Monáe, Tems, Chris Brown, Davido, Jon Batiste, Summer Walker, Coco Jones, Megan Thee Stallion, FLO, Kirk Franklin, Kierra Sheard and Jonathan McReynolds.

The Color Purple, American Fiction, They Cloned Tyrone, Origin and Rustin are among the film’s nominated.

Presenters include Keke Palmer, who’s also nominated for entertainer of the year, Kerry Washington, Taraji P. Henson, Erika Alexander, Delroy Lindo, Deon Cole, Leslie Jones, Lil Rel Howery, Kenya Barris, Morris Chestnut, Sterling K. Brown, Ryan Michelle Bath and Sabrina Elba.