On Fox News, it felt like Thanksgiving Day and Christmas rolled into one.

“You feel the energy here, everyone is so excited,” exulted Lawrence Jones, the “Fox & Friends” host who served as an emcee of the network’s celebratory coverage of President Trump’s military parade in Washington on Saturday. “When the president took the stage, you heard the people say ‘U.S.A., U.S.A.!’”

Mr. Jones was seated with his co-host, Emily Compagno, on a riser just above Constitution Avenue, as Abrams tanks rolled by and paratroopers swooped down from the sky. An on-screen fireworks graphic twinkled in the background. Their banter resembled the excitable “Today” show crew on NBC during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Over the course of the three-hour event, which was held to celebrate the Army’s 250th birthday — it happened to be Mr. Trump’s 79th birthday, too — Fox News did not air footage of the “No Kings” rallies that were taking place simultaneously in many cities in protest of the administration’s policies.

For updates, viewers could turn to CNN and MSNBC, which toggled between the parade and Saturday’s other significant news events, including rocket attacks in the Middle East and the assassination of a Democratic politician in Minnesota.

Clarissa Ward appeared live on CNN for several early-morning dispatches from Tel Aviv, and CNN and MSNBC correspondents reported from the ground in Los Angeles, where some protesters had clashed with law enforcement.

Fox News’s reporters have extensively covered those story lines over the past few days. But on Saturday evening, the channel devoted its broadcast to pomp and circumstance. One guest, the New York Post columnist Miranda Devine, popped by to praise what she called the parade’s “positive contrast to all the doom and gloom and the protests and the ‘Dictator Trump’ stuff that we’ve been seeing in New York and L.A.

“It just drowns all that out with a positive, patriotic display that I think lifts everybody’s hearts,” she said.

Liberal-leaning MSNBC featured less coverage of the parade than its rivals, though its anchor Ali Velshi, on the ground in Washington, told viewers that “it’s got a bit more of a Disney feel to it.” Some guests on the network sounded skeptical notes about Mr. Trump’s celebration.

“This military parade is wrong for a number of reasons, but especially because it continues to insert our military in the politics of this country,” said Paul Rieckhoff, an Army veteran who has criticized Mr. Trump.

NewsNation, a 24-hour cable channel, cut into its parade coverage to report on skirmishes between demonstrators and law enforcement in downtown Los Angeles.

“Now there is tear gas and paintballs and everything else being fired at the protesters,” said the anchor Leland Vittert. CNN and MSNBC featured helicopter shots of those clashes. Around the same time, Fox News was showing a prepackaged military recruitment video, scored to a rendition of Metallica’s “Enter Sandman.”

The country’s three biggest TV networks did not carry the parade or Mr. Trump’s prime-time remarks live on their affiliates, citing prior commitments. When the president spoke, CBS aired a rerun of the comic procedural “Elsbeth,” NBC had the game show “Password,” and ABC was carrying the championship game of the United Football League. (All three networks did cover the parade on their 24-hour digital streaming channels.)

On Fox News, the political anchor Bret Baier appeared occasionally with a more measured analysis of the parade, and he mentioned the “No Kings” rallies on-air. Mr. Baier is set to conduct a live interview on Sunday with Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli leader’s first American interview since the start of Israel’s attacks on Iran.

Otherwise, though, the network kept things light.

“How great was that flyover!” Mr. Jones exclaimed at one point, after military jets zoomed above the crowd. “We’re nerding out here.”

Earlier on Saturday, the morning show “Fox & Friends Weekend” had featured an interview with one of its own former co-hosts, Pete Hegseth, who is now the secretary of defense.

“This parade is going to be awesome,” Mr. Hegseth said, to which the Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy, who is married to Mr. Trump’s transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, agreed.

“Take that, haters,” she said.

Michael M. Grynbaum writes about the intersection of media, politics and culture. He has been a media correspondent at The Times since 2016.

Emmett Lindner writes about breaking and trending news. He has written about international protests, climate change and social media influencers.

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