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Local New Year's Eve coverage

With just a few days before 2017, here's some updates about what local celebrations will be aired this year:
Obviously Times Square (no explanation) on ABC/NBC/CNN/Fox News.
Pitbull's New Year's Revolution from Miami will air nationwide on Fox.
In Chicago, WMAQ will air Chi-Town Rising for the second year in a row, following Carson Daly (with a live ET ball drop at 10:59 CT). This broadcast is syndicated to several CT time stations including WMTV Madison, WTMJ Milwaukee, KARE Minneapolis and WHO Des Moines.
KDKA will air First Night Pittsburgh again, at 11:30P ET.
WBZ shows a program called "Phantom Gourmet" at 11:30. Not sure if this is a New Year's special or if it's two reruns of the local Phantom Gourmet series, which reviews eateries around New England.
KING-5 once again airs New Year's at the Needle...this program is always watched in the family. NWCN should air this, but if they don't, I can always turn on the live webstream. NWCN is ceasing operations January 6th at 9PM.
KTVB is going back to airing the Idaho Potato Drop! They did not do this in 2015-16. Not a lot of fireworks or eye-catching stuff, however...just the drop of the potato in Downtown Boise.
Big D NYE is cancelled for the second year in a row. WFAA airs Ryan Seacrest.
All three Vegas stations air the Las Vegas Strip celebrations, which start around 10-11PM.
I see a "New Year's Eve Special" on KASW-61 Phoenix that begins at 10PM and goes until 1:30AM. Not sure what that is. Something local?
 
crainbebo said:
I see a "New Year's Eve Special" on KASW-61 Phoenix that begins at 10PM and goes until 1:30AM. Not sure what that is. Something local?
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KLAS New Year’s Special Airing In 11 Nexstar Markets

KLAS, the CBS affiliate in Las Vegas owned by Nexstar, is hosting Countdown to 2017, a live special featuring music and fireworks from the rooftops of seven Las Vegas hotels and casinos, on Saturday night, New Year’s Eve, starting at 9.

The New Year’s Eve Special will be hosted by KLAS news anchors, Brian Loftus and Kirsten Joyce.

The three-and-a-half hour program will originate at the Hard Rock Café, and will feature live reports from other locations throughout Las Vegas, where more than 300,000 people are expected to ring in the New Year.

“This year we are excited to expand this must-see event to reach eleven additional Nexstar markets across the country and to bring the Las Vegas celebration into the homes of thousands of new viewers.”

The additional markets include KASW (CW) Phoenix (DMA 12); KUCW (CW) Salt Lake City, Utah (DMA 34); KGPE (CBS) Fresno, Calif. (DMA 54); KWKT (Fox/Estrella) Waco, Texas (DMA 87); KTSM (NBC/Estrella) El Paso, Texas (DMA 92); KGET (NBC/CW) Bakersfield, Calif. (DMA 126); KAMR (NBC) Amarillo, Texas (DMA 131); KMID (ABC) Midland-Odessa, Texas (DMA 145); KJTL (Fox) Wichita Falls, Texas (DMA 147); KHMT (Fox) Billings, Mont. (DMA 167); and KGJT (MNT) Grand Junction, Colo. (DMA 185).
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http://www.tvnewscheck.com/marketsh...w-years-special-airing-in-11-nexstar-markets/
 
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The Guitar Drop in Memphis that had been carried state wide by WKNO PBS 10 in recent years wasn't carried anywhere again this year.
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I enjoyed watching that back when it was on. Been missing that in recent years. (Not sure how they handled the eaststate being an hour ahead of the rest of us.)

But no TV for me this NYE. Going to be out hiking at Radnor Lake! Hoping for not too much rain!
 
KRON 4 in San Francisco will have a New Year's Eve Live Special from 11:15pm to 12:30am Pacific. It will be live streamed on their website and app
 
crainbebo said:
Watched Times Square LIVE at 9PM PT (avoiding Kathy Griffin...watched Fox News instead), then went online and streamed Pensacola (at first) where they dropped the Pelican and the cameramen hardly ever pointed their cameras towards the fireworks! WOAI did a much better job with the San Antonio fireworks show, which I streamed as well.
Gosh, didn't know about Chi-Town Rising! Should have looked for a stream...WLS didn't webstream their broadcast.
Not a thing in the Mountain Time Zone. KTVB did NOT air the Potato Drop from Boise this year. KTVB just aired a syndicated skiing special and Carson Daly on tape. There's several complaints on Facebook. No one in Denver, El Paso, Albuquerque, Salt Lake does a local celebration either. The "east coast bias" makes MT time the red-headed stepchild of New Years' in the lower 48 it seems.
Space Needle was great at our local midnight...and at the same time, also streamed KSNV and all of the fireworks from various hotels on the Vegas Strip. KING-5 should syndicate the Space Needle not only to NWCN, but to KREM and KGW as well.

-crainbebo
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About Denver...when we first moved out here back in 2007 KWGN channel 2 did something to ring in the New Year. More/less a local Denver New Years show with the highlight being the fireworks from the 16th Street Mall at Midnight. This was before KWGN joined KDVR and I do not believe this was syndicated either. Anyway by 12:15 AM it became all quiet in downtown Denver as everybody went home and that was the last time any stations in Denver did anything locally to ring in the New Years other than maybe a clip of something on their local newscasts. Looking back now I think a good many people out here take the "who cares" route. Fireworks isn't that big of a deal anymore since so many neighborhoods in and around Denver have their own so why bother going downtown ?? The neighborhood we live in has fireworks for not only New Years but also Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day and Halloween too. Surprised they don't shoot them off at Christmas or hell even Valentines Day.

Kinda surprised nobody mentioned what Stu Shostak from "Stu's Show" is doing for New Years. Both him and his wife is doing a live event out of Fresno, California which will air live on TV there but streamed elsewhere. Sounds interesting anyway.

http://stusshow.com/
 
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Denver does fireworks at both 9PM (for the little kids?) and local midnight MT. But they are not telecast, if they ever were. I suspect the network affiliates did something in Denver for the Millennium.
I wish KING-5 would syndicate New Year's at the Needle to KREM and KGW. But with Tegna practically killing the legacy of the station, and shutting down Northwest Cable News, I shudder to think what they will do next...like getting rid of the celebration altogether replacing it with tape-delayed Carson Daly...
 
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well, it looks like the DFW area will be ringing in the new year with no local New Years Eve special, this New Years Eve, WFAA will air "Dick Clark's New Years Eve" which will be doing a live central time zone New Years countdown live from New Orleans (as last year at this time, Big D NYE was canceled due to a dispute between the organizers of the event and the owners of the American Airlines Center, who owns the AT&T Plaza at Victory Park, where the event was held every year since it's beginnings) . meanwhile KXAS NBC 5 will air their sister station in Chicago's New Years Eve special and KDFW Fox 4 will air Fox's New Years Eve special hosted by Pitbull on a one hour delay since it will be from Miami, which is in the eastern time zone.
 
As always, the Big 3 Atlanta stations will split-screen the Peach Drop at Underground Atlanta -- their last one there before it moves to (possibly) Centennial Olympic Park next New Year's Eve -- with Times Square (WSB and WXIA) and Miami (WAGA).

WGCL on the other hand, will happily be showing "Person Of Interest" (CBS gave up on New Year's after 1995-96), though those four stations will also livestream the Peach Drop on the Web and Facebook.
 
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WKRN-2 in Nashville will go to the Music Note drop at 11:50 PM.

Also it looks like WSMV-4 has picked up Chi-Town Rising from WMAQ-5.
 
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As always, the Big 3 Atlanta stations will split-screen the Peach Drop at Underground Atlanta -- their last one there before it moves to (possibly) Centennial Olympic Park next New Year's Eve -- with Times Square (WSB and WXIA) and Miami (WAGA).

WGCL on the other hand, will happily be showing "Person Of Interest" (CBS gave up on New Year's after 1995-96), though those four stations will also livestream the Peach Drop on the Web and Facebook.
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WXIA, as it turns out, did not do a split screen with the Times Square festivities and the Peach Drop. They kept strictly on New York and NBC.
 
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WXIA, as it turns out, did not do a split screen with the Times Square festivities and the Peach Drop. They kept strictly on New York and NBC.
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WBS-TV's stream carried the Peach Drop. I watched that instead of anything coming from New Yawk.
 
Here in Prescott, AZ We got to see the annual "BOOT DROP" along
"Whiskey Row" at 10pm MST and again at Midnight MST. It was carried
live on all television stations.........


NOT!
 
NWCN did NOT air the Seattle fireworks. Thank goodness I found the KING-5 stream on their Facebook page, or we would have missed it. Great show, with a tribute to Prince and David Bowie in the music soundtrack. The fireworks were 2 minutes longer than last year!
Earlier in the day, I watched Big Ben's fireworks from London via a Sky News stream...absolutely stunning. Almost 15 minutes worth of beautiful fireworks and effects.
Then watched the ball drop from New York as usual at 9PM ET. At 10PM, CNN aired Dallas fireworks and New Orleans festivities splitscreen. I also streamed the Chi-Town Rising celebration from WMAQ and syndicated throughout the CT time zone on several NBC stations. Some fireworks but not as stunning as other locations.
KTVB-Boise's Potato Drop included a "Glowtato" drop, about 90 seconds of fireworks and frankly, where was the glow? :D I'll give them props for trying. The anchors on the broadcast - "that was the most amazing fireworks show I've ever seen!!" LOL...you haven't seen Seattle, Sydney, San Antonio or London yet.

All of the local stations aired New York tape delayed as usual, thus I went to the webstream for Seattle.
 
Well, it's almost that time again for the ball drops and fireworks and noise makers...and a lot to update in the Northwest.
First off, nationally ABC will air Ryan Seacrest (and the Central Time countdown returns from last year), and Steve Harvey hosts a new Fox Times Square special at 11-12:30am ET/PT. With Sunday Night Football I don't see Carson Daly on NBC this year. I guess the reason is obvious - if the game goes into overtime or has a rain delay, it could screw with the ball drop.
In Seattle, KING-5 once again airs New Year's at the Needle at 11:35pm PT. We'll have to stream it online, with no syndication and NWCN being all but a memory now. Too bad ch 5 doesn't feed this to KGW and KREM.
What's this on KOIN Portland - 'Nexstar New Year's Eve Special'? Is this all coming from KLAS Las Vegas? It goes from 8PM-12:30AM.
Also just saw an advertisement the other day on KAPP/KVEW (ABC) Yakima/Tri-Cities...they will be cutting in periodically during Rockin' Eve with live coverage of NYE festivities from Wildhorse Resort & Casino in Pendleton, OR! This is a first for this market! Perhaps they might blot out the tape-delay ball drop entirely and air a live PT countdown from Pendleton.
 
That's too bad. I watched it last year. The fireworks weren't as great as Seattle's however. At least KXAS is doing a local celebration from Dallas, called Lone Star NYE. And BTW, Big D NYE cancelled for the third year in a row, so Times Square again for WFAA viewers. The Lone Star celebration will be syndicated to about a dozen other stations in TX, OK and I think LA. I know KFDX Wichita Falls is taking it.
 
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That's too bad. I watched it last year. The fireworks weren't as great as Seattle's however. At least KXAS is doing a local celebration from Dallas, called Lone Star NYE. And BTW, Big D NYE cancelled for the third year in a row, so Times Square again for WFAA viewers. The Lone Star celebration will be syndicated to about a dozen other stations in TX, OK and I think LA. I know KFDX Wichita Falls is taking it.
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i think it's safe to say Lone Star NYE is pretty much Big D NYE with a new name and location and new TV home, Victory Park in Dallas was just too expensive and WFAA/TEGNA got to cheap and opted not to do it anymore.
 
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