Checking the schedule in Kansas City, KSHB is showing Carson Daley's celebration (delayed by an hour) from NY after some figure skating special while KMBC is showing Dick Clark (or whoever replaced him) live (last year they showed his special an hour delayed after their precious two syndicated sitcoms). Is is the networks or the local affiliates that choose to show the Times Square celebration at midnight their time, I doubt they think the viewers are that stupid. KCTV used to show the celebration from the Hyatt. I'm guessing it's just saves the $ to run celebrations from NYC even in the Pacific Time zone. Not that I'll be at home tonight. Does any station or channel outside the Eastern Time Zone run anything live at midnight their time anymore.
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Delayed new year's celebrations from the Eastern Time Zone
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WMC (NBC) in Memphis, and WBBJ (ABC) and WJKT (Fox) in Jackson, TN are showing the network specials live. This has definitely changed since a few years ago when almost all of them were delayed. WHBQ (Fox) in Memphis is delaying Fox's special by an hour to 11 PM. WREG (CBS) in Memphis is carrying repeats of Letterman and Ferguson at their normal times. I don't know what's happening with WPTY (ABC) in Memphis since they aren't on Charter cable in Jackson now.
I've seen some stations here in TX do the delayed-by-an-hour/make-it-look-like-Times-Square-is-the-same-time-as-here crap.
Lately in Dallas, an actual local 'Big-D-NYE' has been set up annually in the Victory Plaza area outside the American Airlines Center. A Dallas Stars game is scheduled, is played somehow without any OT, then the 'NYE' organizers have a built-in outdoor audience (after the Stars game lets out) for this thing. The ABC station (WFAA/8), whose parent company is one of the cheerleaders for the event, carries it live every year. They break into Dick Clark's show, then about ~45 minutes later, go back to it to show what was missed and finish that up. Anyway, if they didn't have the Stars game fans, I'm not sure how many folks would show up downtown (most people have historically gone to restaurants/bars/hotels if they're out, or stayed home otherwise, and didn't really try to ever centralize an NYE thing around here before (except for 2000, when at 12 midnight, the red neon Pegasus (as in Mobil) was relit and started spinning again on top of the Magnolia building (now a hotel) after many months of renovation (lots of long-time Dallasites got a real kick out of it as the sign had long been a symbol downtown (the building was the tallest in Dallas for many years), the effect of which has spread over the years to city bike route signage and downtown wayfinding signage)...anyway, how I digress, I'm not sure if this local version will ever be the long-running success of the NYC version, but it has a long LONG way to go. There's a lot of silly schtick (worse than the national versions of schtick, if you can imagine), and lame segments with even lamer music. The fireworks after midnight--definitely the lamest part!! If you're gonna have a fireworks show, it needs to be done *for real*, not this homemade-looking backyard half-a** stuff!! But, I guess, at least it's an attempt to have something besides Times Square (live, or sort-of live) to see on local TV.
Now, if somebody will start showing Seattle every year nationally (instead of thinking the only thing out west is Vegas >ugh< ) --one of the more interesting non-NYC New Year's celebrations IMO. They really work those Space Needle fireworks at midnight!
Lately in Dallas, an actual local 'Big-D-NYE' has been set up annually in the Victory Plaza area outside the American Airlines Center. A Dallas Stars game is scheduled, is played somehow without any OT, then the 'NYE' organizers have a built-in outdoor audience (after the Stars game lets out) for this thing. The ABC station (WFAA/8), whose parent company is one of the cheerleaders for the event, carries it live every year. They break into Dick Clark's show, then about ~45 minutes later, go back to it to show what was missed and finish that up. Anyway, if they didn't have the Stars game fans, I'm not sure how many folks would show up downtown (most people have historically gone to restaurants/bars/hotels if they're out, or stayed home otherwise, and didn't really try to ever centralize an NYE thing around here before (except for 2000, when at 12 midnight, the red neon Pegasus (as in Mobil) was relit and started spinning again on top of the Magnolia building (now a hotel) after many months of renovation (lots of long-time Dallasites got a real kick out of it as the sign had long been a symbol downtown (the building was the tallest in Dallas for many years), the effect of which has spread over the years to city bike route signage and downtown wayfinding signage)...anyway, how I digress, I'm not sure if this local version will ever be the long-running success of the NYC version, but it has a long LONG way to go. There's a lot of silly schtick (worse than the national versions of schtick, if you can imagine), and lame segments with even lamer music. The fireworks after midnight--definitely the lamest part!! If you're gonna have a fireworks show, it needs to be done *for real*, not this homemade-looking backyard half-a** stuff!! But, I guess, at least it's an attempt to have something besides Times Square (live, or sort-of live) to see on local TV.
Now, if somebody will start showing Seattle every year nationally (instead of thinking the only thing out west is Vegas >ugh< ) --one of the more interesting non-NYC New Year's celebrations IMO. They really work those Space Needle fireworks at midnight!
In Houston, Fox-Owned KRIV (FOX 26) and Post-Newsweek's KPRC (LOCAL 2) delays their respectful network's NYE specials for an hour to comply with the central time zone viewers. KTRK (ABC-13) plans to cut away Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve Special for it's coverage of The Glowarama festival, which takes place in front of The GRB. The Dick Clark Special will continue to be shown after the Glowarama...
I seem to remember for a few years in the '90s, San Francisco's KRON had "New Year's Live!" from Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas and syndicated to the West Coast. KTVF here in Fairbanks carried that followed by "Happy New Year America" from CBS.easttxtv said:
And according to my listings, Dick Clark and Ryan Seacrest will be resuming their big show at 10:30 pm instead of 11:30 on a delay, meaning when midnight nears Alaska, we'll be watching NBC (with Carson Daly) or Fox (with Nancy O'Dell). But by then, we have already seen the Times Square ball drop live at 8:00 on CNN.
In St. Louis, KSDK (NBC) showed the Times Square ball drop live at 11 pm CST. I happened to catch it since that was what was on while I was on the phone with my parents. For once, I was watching a local station for coverage of the storms and tornadoes earlier in the day. According to the listings, KDNL ( the worst ABC affiliate in the nation) delayed Dick Clark's show one hour. I have no idea what KTVI (FOX) did.
KMIZ-TV in Columbia, MO delayed Clark to 11:30, but they were running the pre-recorded show about 35 seconds late...the ball dropped around 12:00:35 Central Time on KMIZ.
LynnW said:
WDAF delayed Fox's special an hour, I'm guessing KTVI did the same
Firepoint 525 may know this, but did WSMV in Nashville do the same idiotic stunt they've done in recent years and delay NBC's New Year's special with Carson Daly by an hour, only to fill the time with infomercials? I don't have a problem with the special being delayed by an hour, but if all they're going to fill the 10:30-11:30 time slot with is infomercials, then they might as well show the special live. 
I seem to recall that we checked channel 4 looking for possibly Leno, and then not finding him there, we went on to other programming. It may have indeed been filler programming that we saw. I just remember that we went on to CNN with that obnoxious Kathy Griffin and the way outmatched and outwitted Anderson Cooper.anotherguy said:Firepoint 525 may know this, but did WSMV in Nashville do the same idiotic stunt they've done in recent years and delay NBC's New Year's special with Carson Daly by an hour, only to fill the time with infomercials? I don't have a problem with the special being delayed by an hour, but if all they're going to fill the 10:30-11:30 time slot with is infomercials, then they might as well show the special live.
We caught wind of our PBS station carrying the Beale Street coverage from Memphis, and being the west Tennessee native that I am, we decided to check it out, until returning to CNN right before midnight for Nashville coverage.
Maybe I should have answered the question a little better yesterday, but I don't recall seeing Carson Daly on channel 4. That said, I find it insulting that any TV channel would see the need to delay New York City's Times Square coverage for the central time zone! : We on central time have become accustomed to seeing programming apparently geared for the eastern time zone, so why make a change like that for New Year's Eve? Just show it live, and then show us our own coverage at midnight our time!
At least we didn't have the downer like we did last year, when one of the cable channels interviewed some girl on the street, and she whined about Michael Jackson dying that year! : I'm sure that some control room operator or technician somewhere was groaning over that one! :
We on central time have become accustomed to seeing programming apparently geared for the eastern time zone, so why make a change like that for New Year's Eve? Just show it live, and then show us our own coverage at midnight our time!At least we didn't have the downer like we did last year, when one of the cable channels interviewed some girl on the street, and she whined about Michael Jackson dying that year! :
I'm sure that some control room operator or technician somewhere was groaning over that one! :- Status