CNN will broadcast Farm Aid 2026: Music Festival Live on Saturday, 26 September, from 7pm to 11pm ET, with online streaming also available through services including DirecTV and Sling TV. The programme will feature performances by Willie Nelson and Family, Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews with Tim Reynolds, Margo Price and Nathaniel Rateliff.

CNN is the festival’s exclusive broadcast partner, with John Berman and Laura Coates presenting from Virginia Beach and climate correspondent Bill Weir reporting on the event. Last year’s 40th-anniversary broadcast reached 3.88 million people worldwide and generated more than $615,000 in audience donations; Farm Aid, founded in 1985, has raised over $85 million to support family farmers and challenge industrial agriculture.