Miss USA 2016 pageant won't be held in Baton Rouge
The Miss USA pageant will not be held in Baton Rouge as it had been the past two years.
Instead, the pageant, formerly owned by presidential candidate Donald Trump, will return in Las Vegas, according to the pageant's website.
Viewers can watch the contestants compete live on Fox on June 5 at 6 p.m.
Viewership for last year's pageant, shown on ReelzChannel, was at an all-time low of 925,000 after NBC and Univision refused to air the pageant because of Trump's controversial statements about Mexican immigrants. The 2014 pageant in Baton Rouge was viewed by about 5.6 million.
. The beauty contest is turning to the public to find a wild-card contestant.
Judges and sponsors also withdrew from the 2015 pageant.
Visit Baton Rouge did not pay $75,000 of its originally promised $200,000 to the pageant operators, and then-Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne authorized payment from the Louisiana Office of Tourism for only half of its pledged $50,000. However, the city-parish paid its full $280,000.
"You look at the contract, and there were deliverables that were not met," said Visit Baton Rouge President Paul Arrigo.
Neither Visit Baton Rouge nor the Baton Rouge city-parish government offered any incentive packages to bring the pageant back this year, according to The Advocate.
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