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Happy New Year...on tape

Sammi Brie

Sammi Brie

As a West Coast resident I am kind of miffed at two things:

1. Every network New Year's show is on tape. Who wants to ring in Happy New Year at 9pm or 10pm?
2. In the country's 12th (soon to be 11th) largest TV market, WHERE ARE THE LOCAL SHOWS? Nobody seems to want to preempt the network – ever – for something local here. In America's fifth-largest city! Or something in our time zone at least...anything in Denver? Salt Lake City, even?

Why is this ritual repeated every single year? I would much rather see something live and LOCAL. There are quite a few big New Year's Eve parties here –the Fiesta Bowl block party, one at Westgate, etc...and NOTHING? What are our TV stations, network-controlled robots?
 
The lack of activity is particularly inexplicable on CBS-affiliated stations, which have to make do with a Letterman rerun. Hell, old Guy Lombardo kinescopes would be more interesting. ;D I'd love to see local CBS affiliates extend their late newscasts past midnight to provide live, local coverage of events in their towns, but that's probably beyond the reach of most local stations' resources except in the biggest markets. How many people still watch New Years' Eve broadcasts, anyway?
 
I can't believe my half-luck:

I found actual live coverage. Catch? It was in Spanish on Univision. (Hey, not bad!)
 
The only live coverage for the time zone in my area (Central Time) I've come across was the Moon Pie drop in Mobile, Alabama. Better than seeing a repeat of the ball dropping in Times Square, I guess.
 
My NBC station showed Carson Daly live at 11pm CT. When I heard Sinatra's "New York, New York" a minute later, I decided it was a good time to turn the TV off.
 
newsbot said:
I'd love to see local CBS affiliates extend their late newscasts past midnight to provide live, local coverage of events in their towns, but that's probably beyond the reach of most local stations' resources except in the biggest markets.
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I think you answered your own question. Budget restraints are the reason you don't any sort of local event coverage. You would have to bring in a larger crew, and you would be paying them holiday rates. Too many $$$$$$$.
 
BlueWanderer said:
The only live coverage for the time zone in my area (Central Time) I've come across was the Moon Pie drop in Mobile, Alabama. Better than seeing a repeat of the ball dropping in Times Square, I guess.
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CNN provided live coverage of the guitar drop here in Nashville. Unfortunately, that meant sitting through Kathy Griffin and Anderson Cooper an hour earlier in NYC! ::)
 
firepoint525 said:
CNN provided live coverage of the guitar drop here in Nashville. Unfortunately, that meant sitting through
Kathy Griffin and Anderson Cooper an hour earlier in NYC! ::)
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Inquiring minds want to know...did Kathy Griffin keep her mouth in check?
 
WFAA showed (as always) the local countdown at American Airlines Center.
After that they went "Live" for the 2011 countdown in New York (which happened at 12:17 CST) :D
 
The Little Rock AR network stations showing NYE shows (KARK-NBC, KATV-ABC, KLRT-Fox) all "tape delayed" them one hour (so did the other NBC affiliate in range, KTVE El Dorado AR). I made do with CNN and endured the annoying, obnoxious Kathy Griffin for Live coverage of NY Times Square, Nashville (for Central Time zone) and highlights of the Key West "shoe drop".
 
firepoint525 said:
BlueWanderer said:
The only live coverage for the time zone in my area (Central Time) I've come across was the Moon Pie drop in Mobile, Alabama. Better than seeing a repeat of the ball dropping in Times Square, I guess.
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CNN provided live coverage of the guitar drop here in Nashville. Unfortunately, that meant sitting through Kathy Griffin and Anderson Cooper an hour earlier in NYC! ::)
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I avoided the cable propaganda news channels completely and only saw the major networks coverage. It was the local NBC affiliate (WAFF) that showed the Moon Pie drop, then switched over to a rerun of Leno. I should have mention that earlier.
 
ssetta said:
CBS affiliate in Boston WBZ provides local coverage of First Night Boston.
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And their coverage was pretty good, in my opinion -- certainly much better than what the major networks offer each year.
 
It all depends on the market. I know in Atlanta we tend to have somebody airing the Peach Drop in Underground, but it's locally produced and occasionally syndicated to other cities in years past. Most stations in most cities except the ones who dedicate extra resources to heavy local presence might show something.
 
There used to be a local broadcast from in Memphis at first from Overton Square, and then in later years from Beale Street. WMC NBC 5 started it in the 80's and later it went to WPTY 24 until they picked up ABC in the mid-90's. In recent years WKNO PBS 10 has carried a special from Beale Street. One of the dumbest things they did this year though was that they showed the guitar drop a few minutes after it actually happened rather than to interrupt a live performance that went over. ???
 
anotherguy said:
There used to be a local broadcast from in Memphis at first from Overton Square, and then in later years from Beale Street. WMC NBC 5 started it in the 80's and later it went to WPTY 24 until they picked up ABC in the mid-90's. In recent years WKNO PBS 10 has carried a special from Beale Street. One of the dumbest things they did this year though was that they showed the guitar drop a few minutes after it actually happened rather than to interrupt a live performance that went over. ???
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Don't know if I mentioned it on this thread or another, but I watched that same footage over the PBS station here in Nashville. The setups (at least) for both guitar drops (here and there) looked fairly similar, probably because both were sponsored by Hard Rock Cafe. They showed the setup for the guitar drop at about 11:30, and I thought that they had momentarily switched back to Nashville because it looked so similar!

We didn't see the Memphis guitar drop because we had switched back to CNN in time to see our own (shaky!) guitar drop at midnight.
 
WBTV in Charlotte, NC had local coverge. I don't know why I didn't think of that when ABC and NBC didn't have anything on worth seeing. But ABC or NBC almost always had something I wanted to watch, so I didn't go that route.
 
Dick Clark looked good this year, I would say better then last year. Always great to see him. Don't care for Ryan Seacrest much at all. When and how did he join "Dick Clark's New Year Eve Show"?

Also saw MTV had their New Year Eve show which was mostly "Jeresy Shore's New Year's Eve LIVE" with a ball dropping with Snookie inside it. Saw part of the show it could have been done better, I remember when Carson Daily used to work for MTV those New Year Eve shows were done much better.
 
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