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New Year's Rockin' Eve Announced

crainbebo said:
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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Anderson & Andy did a great job.
 
crainbebo said:
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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CNN has taken the Times Sqaure feed for the whole ceremony. The others talk over it and dump out right after the drop.
 
crainbebo said:
Joel McHale and Ken Jeong on FOX couldn't beat a Colbert rerun!!!
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I've only seen the last hour before midnight minus musical guests but theirs was fun. And Kelly Osbourne actually did a halfway decent job reporting from Times Square. She got criticized for mentioning how much she loved JLo who was on another network, but of course with these hosts that's just part of the fun. I intend to watch the rest, but I recorded it in foru parts so I could delete as I went and not worry about filling up the TiVo. I wondered why part four, the first part I saw but just for a few seconds, started before midnight, but being an Osbourne, Kelly did something that made Joel ask if there was a delay. That explains why part three ended 20 seconds early.
crainbebo said:
did the folks at CBS even think about providing them with a digital clock?
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There is an "official" countdown below the ball and the camera is supposed to be on that. The hosts are always a second or two off.
 
seatownmedia said:
Some of the broadcasts were on a delay. My cellphone was three seconds ahead of cnn. But it really matters like, who cares?
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NYE reminds me of old days trying to hit the network at the exact top of the hour, an obsolete skill. Today, its hard to find a definitive source other than WWV, and I'm not keeping a SW radio around to use just once a year. Went to bed early. Doesn't sound like I missed much.
 
Either the audio was out of sync on the Earthcam Times Square stream or they actually boo-booed at the start of 2021. It sounded like the prerecorded countdown began 6-7 seconds too early and I was hearing the first notes of Auld Lang Syne before the ball even lighted up the 2021 sign...
 
Probably the closest time to being .accurate now other than WWV would be from computers or cell phones if they use internet time, but I don't go looking for the exact time.

I went to bed early because of having to get up early for work and I agree I didn't miss anything.
 
Also, watching a tape delay of the Times Square ball drop just isn't that exciting for people in the Mountain and Pacific time zones.
 
Yep, not everyone stays up to midnight on New Year's Eve. They don't feel exciting, or they have to work, or they really can't stay up that late anymore. I wonder how young everyone was when they were finally able to stay up to midnight on NYE without falling asleep (or mom & dad telling them to go to bed). I think I was 5 years old the first time that happened. Even at that age, my parents (living in the Puget Sound area) always watched the Space Needle fireworks on KING (and I think they were on KOMO before that preempting Dick Clark). Champagne for my parents, sparkling apple cider for little me. Oh, and a few fireworks...after the Needle quieted down. Albeit my mom and (deceased) dad had a lot of New Year's fun in the '80s. She worked in a couple of Yakima bars and that night was always fun for her - and a lot of tips as well. A few times they went to some parties at friends' homes.

While I had to break the tradition the past couple of years (no Seattle show in 2020 and Covid cancelling everything this year), personally I look forward to 'following the time zones' on NYE. I start in London at 4PM Pacific and watch Big Ben's massive fireworks show. Then I turn over to CNN for the Times Square ball live at 8:59PM, then over to a Central time celebration online (the past few years it's been the Dallas Lone Star NYE) at 10, watch the Idaho Potato Drop on KTVB at 11, and wrap the night up with the Space Needle at local midnight. One of these years I'll get my butt over to Seattle and watch them with everyone (and some friends). Someday...
 
crainbebo said:
Yep, not everyone stays up to midnight on New Year's Eve. They don't feel exciting, or they have to work, or they really can't stay up that late anymore.
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When PD at KTNQ in LA, for a number of years when the Internet was new we got permission to broadcast the arrival of the new year from a station in Spain. They even mentioned us on the air, and did a short bit with our afternoon drive two-person talk show. With an 8 hour difference it meant we had New Year celebrations at 4 PM right in the middle of drive time plus a rather unique image feature.

It was amusing, because everyone that worked with the station felt that the new year had already arrived, so the real PST midnight was a bit anti-climactic.
 
crainbebo said:
I wonder how young everyone was when they were finally able to stay up to midnight on NYE without falling asleep

While I had to break the tradition the past couple of years (no Seattle show in 2020 and Covid cancelling everything this year), personally I look forward to 'following the time zones' on NYE.
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I actually stayed up in 1976, but I was still awake at least once before that. I'm glad I got to watch the show that year and the next couple because they were Lombardo's last ones. One of his relatives took over the orchestra but then he did something dumb. Maybe Dick Clark wants to hear your play rock and roll, but we don't. Actually, I don't know what he did. But he just had to do a big finish that looked ridiculous. after that I'm not even sure what happened.

Following time zones is something I did in 2000.
 
DavidEduardo said:
When PD at KTNQ in LA, for a number of years when the Internet was new we got permission to broadcast the arrival of the new year from a station in Spain. They even mentioned us on the air, and did a short bit with our afternoon drive two-person talk show. With an 8 hour difference it meant we had New Year celebrations at 4 PM right in the middle of drive time plus a rather unique image feature.

It was amusing, because everyone that worked with the station felt that the new year had already arrived, so the real PST midnight was a bit anti-climactic.
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Considering the new year starts at the International Date line PST is even further behind.
 
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