CBS to Keep Airing Tony Awards Through 2018 CBS announced Wednesday morning that it would continue what has become a 35-year tradition for the network, by agreeing to a deal with The Broadway League and the American Theater Wing that will extend its rights to broadcast the annual Tony Awards show through 2018. The announcement comes three weeks before this year's ceremony, which CBS will broadcast from Radio City Music Hall on June 9, with one of the network's stars, Neil Patrick Harris, returning as the host. For CBS, the Tony Awards show is much more of a prestige item for its summer programming schedule than a potential ratings boon. Last year's edition, with Mr. Harris, hit a 21-year low in the ratings, drawing only about six million viewers.