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Local New Year's Eve coverage

Question of sorts: Is there an ABC or NBC affiliate in the EASTERN Time Zone which doesn't carry the New Year's Eve programming?
 
mvcg66b3r said:
Once again WFAA is dumping ABC’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve for its own Big D NYE show at 10:35pm.
http://www.zap2it.com/rmp/tvgrid/tvgridprint?lineupid=USA-TX42822-X&tz=US/Central&time=1420081200

Will this be on other Gannett stations? Also, what other local New Year’s Eve programming is preempting national shows? And if the national shows are aired, are they live or on tape?
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First Night Colorado isn't much of a tradition. Not much to it. Expect KUSA 9 & KTVD 20 to run normal programming (Or NBC specials on KUSA 9)

All the subs will continue with normal programming

Cheers & Happy Holidays :)
 
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I don't even know if CBS is doing anything tonight. If your local station isn't doing something, it seems strange not to mark the New Year.

My choice would be watching people dance to the music of Guy Lombardo alternating with the craziness in Times Square and, of course, the ball drop. As i recall, whoever I watched (probably ABC live, but I taped NBC too) dropped the ball on the ball drop last year.
 
Atlanta: WSB (ABC), WAGA (Fox) and WXIA (NBC) will split screen the networks' celebratory shows with the local Peach Drop. I'm guessing that WGCL (CBS) will do likewise during Stephen Colbert's show.
 
vchimpanzee said:
I don't even know if CBS is doing anything tonight. If your local station isn't doing something, it seems strange not to mark the New Year.

My choice would be watching people dance to the music of Guy Lombardo alternating with the craziness in Times Square and, of course, the ball drop. As i recall, whoever I watched (probably ABC live, but I taped NBC too) dropped the ball on the ball drop last year.
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CBS hasn't done any scheduled network New Year's programming specials for two decades.
 
When did Central time zone stations start airing New Years from Chicago live? I thought that was a Conan OBrian thing. In Mobile it's listed as Chi-Town Rising on NBC15.
 
Didn't CBS do something for the Millennium (1999 into 2000)? Otherwise, the last time CBS had New Year's Eve/Times Square was 1995 into 1996. They had it for decades before with Guy Lombardo.
BTW, Happy New Year to the East Coast!
 
KASW deserves a special medal for running Las Vegas NYE. This is the first year they've done so, and I have to imagine it's a KLAS production of some sort. The main problem: it's after local NYE.

In our local stations' defense, there are no major syndicated local NYE celebrations in the Mountain Time Zone, not even in sort of major markets like Denver, Albuquerque or El Paso.
 
seedless said:
When did Central time zone stations start airing New Years from Chicago live? I thought that was a Conan OBrian thing. In Mobile it's listed as Chi-Town Rising on NBC15.
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NBC's special from New York went off at 12:30 ET. This is apparently a syndicated special from NBC 5 in Chicago to a bunch of mostly NBC stations in the central time zone and COZI TV. WMC 5 in Memphis and WNBJ 39 in Jackson, TN are both carrying it. I take it that they will be carrying the repeats of NBC's late night shows delayed until after the Chicago special is over.

http://chi-townrising.com/
http://chi-townrising.com/partners/broadcast-affiliates/

Otherwise the NBC and ABC shows in Memphis and Jackson were carried on schedule, and Fox was delayed by an hour.
 
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Raymie said:
KASW deserves a special medal for running Las Vegas NYE. This is the first year they've done so, and I have to imagine it's a KLAS production of some sort. The main problem: it's after local NYE.
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So what is the point? It'll be 1 AM in Phoenix.

In our local stations' defense, there are no major syndicated local NYE celebrations in the Mountain Time Zone, not even in sort of major markets like Denver, Albuquerque or El Paso.
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There is one in metro Phoenix, where the Mill Avenue party in downtown Tempe is supposed to be one of the best-known in the country. No local station is covering it.

A celebration in New York is irrelevant outside of The Almighty East. It certainly doesn't need to air in any of the later time zones.
 
Our local central time New Years event is called the Pensacola Pelican Drop and it has been carried by WEAR ABC 3 for over a decade I've tuned in most years and the TV crew seems drunk by midnight. They experience every "technical difficulty" possible durring that 30 minute local cut in. Last year the cameramen (plural) near the Pelican disappeared at midnight and a cameraman 3 blocks down the street had to climb a light post to get a camera shot of the pelican dropping at midnight.

The Moon Pie Drop on WKRG CBS 5 in nearby Mobile, AL has better (quality) TV coverage but it just seems kinda hokey to drop a Moon Pie. This year WKRG is bouncing back and forth from the Moon Pie Drop to the Pelican Drop. That's new.

Back in the day they started local TV coverage of New Years in Mobile and Pensacola as part of the failed "First Night" alcohol free celebrations. In Pensacola, at least, they figured out having an alcohol free party in the streets in front of open bars just wouldn't work.

Roll Tide! SEC vs ACC for the championship!
 
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.

It looks like that if CBS isn't going to do anything but repeat programs on New Years Eve that their stations should be the ones to do the local events.

Also, the Chicago special lasted until 12:30 and WMC in Memphis carried NBC's late night repeats starting with Jimmy Fallon afterward.
 
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KeithE4 said:
So what is the point? It'll be 1 AM in Phoenix.



There is one in metro Phoenix, where the Mill Avenue party in downtown Tempe is supposed to be one of the best-known in the country. No local station is covering it.

A celebration in New York is irrelevant outside of The Almighty East. It certainly doesn't need to air in any of the later time zones.
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but given the East coast bias, it's treated as the official countdown for all time zones, live or delayed
 
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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Ccook55 said:
Atlanta: WSB (ABC), WAGA (Fox) and WXIA (NBC) will split screen the networks' celebratory shows with the local Peach Drop. I'm guessing that WGCL (CBS) will do likewise during Stephen Colbert's show.
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Do any of those stations bother with anchors and a locally hosted show, or do they just show pictures of the Peach dropping?
 
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