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New Year's Rockin' Eve Announced

SHOCKING that Ryan Seacrest & Co. will have ANY company on Times Square this year :eek:
 
Gonna be a very quiet New Year's Eve. With just about everything cancelled due to the Covid restrictions (including the Space Needle fireworks), I have no plans to celebrate at midnight this year...which hasn't happened since I was very little. More than likely, I'll be saying a prayer at midnight instead for a much better 2021, and *good bleepin' riddance* to this year. All of it!
 
crainbebo said:
Gonna be a very quiet New Year's Eve.
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Seems to me it's going to be very disconcerting to performers who are used to seeing hundreds of thousands of screaming fans. They will instead look out at a deserted Times Square. If you've ever been there, it's a huge space. A big part of this show is the crowd.
 
I just saw the CBS coverage of Joe Biden's acceptance speech. They were showing crowds in various locations including Times Square. Maybe things weren't as bad back then.
 
I haven't seen everything on every channel yet, but Times Square did have socially distanced front-line workers in masks. Lucy Hale interviewed people, also wearing a mask. I watched the ball drop, or tried to, on ABC. They didn't keep the camera on the ball but it was there when it needed to be. As soon as Guy Lombardo finished up I went to bed.

Ryan Seacrest is professional and dignified and so was Lucy.

It was a different story on NBC.

Carson Daly is also professional and dignified. Amazing for someone once on MTV. His co-host was a different story. Though she di do a report on how they create the balls. It seems they are grown on a farm and she even showed us a baby. One of the balls was misbehaving and there was a chase scene with "Yakety Sax", which is good music in my opinion. The truth is I'd rather have seen a real behind the scenes story of the creation of the balls. The farmer, though, was quite convincing and seemed to take it seriously.

I skipped over all "music" performances. I remember one time seeing black and white footage from Times Square with an excited older man reporting, and Guy Lombardo's music playing. That's what I want!

I haven't seen Joel and Ken yet but I'm looking forward to it. Joel makes "Card Sharks" so much fun. "The Masked Singer" is ridiculous but I might enjoy seeing Ken comment.
 
vchimpanzee said:
Times Square did have socially distanced front-line workers in masks. Lucy Hale interviewed people, also wearing a mask.
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She didn't as much "interview" people as she did talk at them. Sometimes there was a mic nearby, sometimes there wasn't.

It was almost painful, when Ryan would ask, "What do you have for us?"

The NBC show was pretty dull too. Carson Daily looked like he was a cardboard cutout.

The only really unpredictable show was on CNN.
 
TheBigA said:
She didn't as much "interview" people as she did talk at them. Sometimes there was a mic nearby, sometimes there wasn't.

It was almost painful, when Ryan would ask, "What do you have for us?"
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Oh, well, my expectations were low.

Joel and Ken were surely more interesting.

I don't pay for channels like CNN.
 
KING Seattle was blacked out on cable at 11:30 anyway and I had no interest in watching the 'virtual' Space Needle 'light show.' So for the 2nd year in a row I ended up watching the tape-delay from NY. I watched Carson's countdown on NBC, KNDO. Meanwhile, the ratings show NYRE winning again and NBC in behind. Joel McHale and Ken Jeong on FOX couldn't beat a Colbert rerun!!!
tvline.com

Ratings: ABC Rocks New Year's Eve as Always, Fox Slips With New Hosts

ABC rang in the new year with the best numbers of any broadcaster, as Dick Clark’s Rockin’ New Year’s Eve averaged 8.4 million total viewers and a 2.4 demo rating
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Has there ever been a year post-Guy Lombardo that CBS was able to compete well with Dick Clark, and a year where Fox's show also did OK in the ratings? Even in the rotating hosts phase of the '80s, CBS was often the place to hear music from country and MOR/soft-rock/slow R&B artists, while ABC had the high-performing pop stars (Miami Sound Machine was on Dick Clark in '86-87 for example, while CBS had Gladys Knight, Melba Moore and Air Supply w/ Brent Musburger at Times Square). Fox has always been edgy for New Year's. They did the Hacienda Hotel implosion in 1996-97, had Penn & Teller for a couple years, and prior to Steve Harvey it was Pitbull's show.
I've also noticed that whoever was doing the Times Square remote for CBS back in the day was always screwing up with the clocks. Christie Brinkley hosted in 1987-88 and she was all over the place, yelling out '30 seconds' when it was actually 50, '10 seconds' when it was actually 40...did the folks at CBS even think about providing them with a digital clock?
 
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The real shocker is the broadcast nets were either level or down according to the linked article. Where did all the people out at bars before 2020 go this year? The ABC thing doesn't shock me, as I know a lot of people who have no interest in the musical guests but just watch for the ball drop and out of tradition. ABC's not a fool; they know the "Dick Clark" name still has a lot of pull on NYE. I wonder if they ever drop Dick's name from NYE coverage.
 
installLSC said:
The real shocker is the broadcast nets were either level or down according to the linked article. Where did all the people out at bars before 2020 go this year?
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Something other than broadcast TV nets. If you notice, the article doesn't mention CNN or HBO.

There were a lot of online live concerts and events last night. None are included in Nielsen ratings.
 
They have been much better since they axed Kathy Griffin. My family can't stand her, and she always tried to screw up the show every time she was on. Anderson & Andy were a much better combo and likewise even with Kathy, they send the coverage to ambient cheers and horns around 11:59:15, instead of counting down like Seacrest and the rest of the U.S. hosts.
 
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