ATLANTIC CITY — The 2020 Miss America Competition will be broadcast live on NBC, the two organizations announced Wednesday evening.

That means the show is unlikely to be held on its traditional date — the second Sunday in September — since NBC would have to bump its best-performing show, the NFL’s “Sunday Night Football.”

The Miss America Organization did not announce a date for the pageant, or a venue for the event, in its news release. Both statements said the date and location will be announced soon.

“NBC is excited to once again team with our friends at the Miss America Organization in what we know will be an entertaining telecast featuring so many inspiring women,” said Doug Vaughan, executive vice president for special programs and late night at NBC Entertainment.

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The competition is returning to the network that carried Miss America for the majority of its broadcast years. It moved from CBS to NBC in 1966 and was on NBC until 2005, when it was broadcast for two years on Country Music Television and was held in Las Vegas. It also was on TLC until 2011, when it returned to ABC. The pageant moved back to Atlantic City in 2013.