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Stations that banned 'New Year's Rockin' Eve'

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NoWayNoCC

For several years in the late 1980s/early 1990s, WKRC-TV (which was Cincinnati's ABC affiliate back then) refused to air 'New Year's Rockin' Eve', as they considered it to be too much for Cincinnati.

Were there any other stations that banned this annual show - ever?

But WKRC used to show it in the years before then, and they ended the prohibition before they swapped networks with WCPO.

Instead of 'New Year's Rockin' Eve', WKRC used to show what they considered to be a more "family-oriented" New Year's event that took place in Cincinnati.
 
Cincinnati is a very conservative city all in all, try to imagine a Midwestern-fringe German Catholic Salt Lake City. I know the town well.

Viewers in Cincinnati proper would have been able to get ABC from WKEF (and later WDTN) from Dayton, and further out, there are ABC affiliates in Columbus, Lexington, Louisville, and Indianapolis.
 
It wasn't that good to begin with. Dick Clark and his clout with ABC kept it going.
 
The ABC presentation was much more family friendly than CBS's hosts talking about taking a "dump". If you like "live music" the Nashville acts were really live. You could see their "breath" as it was cold in Nashville by Nashville standards last night. I believe Diana Ross was actually singing. She missed a few notes, but considering her age and the weather she did an excellent job. You never "see" the band in New York. Are they in a studio somewhere live or taped in advance?
 
secondchoice said:
The ABC presentation was much more family friendly than CBS's hosts talking about taking a "dump". If you like "live music" the Nashville acts were really live. You could see their "breath" as it was cold in Nashville by Nashville standards last night.
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I suspect some of them had some form of enhancement in their audio chain. Bailey Zimmerman, especially, sounded pitchy and auto-tuned, and was constantly fiddling with both of his earpieces. His voice even took on a robotic, distorted tone (intentionally) at one point. That most certainly was his audio wizard tweaking control knobs and sliders rather than actual singing.
 
NoWayNoCC said:
For several years in the late 1980s/early 1990s, WKRC-TV (which was Cincinnati's ABC affiliate back then) refused to air 'New Year's Rockin' Eve', as they considered it to be too much for Cincinnati.

Were there any other stations that banned this annual show - ever?

But WKRC used to show it in the years before then, and they ended the prohibition before they swapped networks with WCPO.

Instead of 'New Year's Rockin' Eve', WKRC used to show what they considered to be a more "family-oriented" New Year's event that took place in Cincinnati.
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I have a hunch WKRC aired the local show because it could make more money. (Much like WDIV Detroit airs the local Thanksgiving Day parade instead of NBC's Macy's coverage, which is relegated to a subchannel on delay.) It's all about the money.
 
for many years KMBC, which aired delayed Nightline by 90 minutes for syndicated reruns. delayed New Year's Rockin' Eve by an hour, don't know if it was for the extra $ or because they wanted delayed countdown to match the Central time zone, or both? KCTV also did a live countdown from the infamous Crown Center Hyatt (now a Sheraton)

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Didn't most stations delay the NYE shows to better fit their time zones? I imagine it's not necessary now, since they can go to midnight in Chicago and Las Vegas.

BTW, which city represented the Mountain Zone? I went to bed after Chicago in the central.
 
On CBS, "Nashville's Big Bash" cut away to Times Square for the ball drop, then resumed with more live music from Nashville until the top of the hour and the countdown to the dropping of the big note in Music City at midnight Central.
 
Fighting Irish said:
Didn't most stations delay the NYE shows to better fit their time zones? I imagine it's not necessary now, since they can go to midnight in Chicago and Las Vegas.

BTW, which city represented the Mountain Zone? I went to bed after Chicago in the central.
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No need to time delay except maybe Hawaii on ABC. They had folks doing acts in Porta Rico, NYC, Chicago, Vegas, and California. I watch the first two celebrations (Star in PR, and Times Square ball drop) then called it a night. Secrets said they would air all 5 of them. I guess they did or social media would have gone wild by now.

Sidenote: I was disappointed I missed clips of the Drone show that was supposed to replace the "Peach" drop in Atlanta. Also no footage of the possum drop in Tallapoosa GA.
 
Fighting Irish said:
Didn't most stations delay the NYE shows to better fit their time zones? I imagine it's not necessary now, since they can go to midnight in Chicago and Las Vegas.

BTW, which city represented the Mountain Zone? I went to bed after Chicago in the central.
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Don't know, Denver or Phoenix would seem to be the intuitive choice, but you could also make a case for Albuquerque, or even Salt Lake City or Boise. Boise is getting huge with all the transplants.
 
secondchoice said:
Within 100 miles in the Summer time, your cell phone clock can be Eastern or Central Daylight time or Indiana "Standard" time depending on where the cell tower is located.
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There hasn't been "Indiana Standard Time" for the better part of a decade now. All of Indiana now observes DST, Eastern for most of the state and Central for areas close to Chicago and the Evansville area.
 
WDIO in Duluth would cut in to New Year’s Rockin Eve for years and instead air the St. Mary’s/Duluth Clinic annual New Year’s Eve ball for 17 years until 2008 when they stopped having the ball.
 
secondchoice said:
No need to time delay except maybe Hawaii on ABC. They had folks doing acts in Porta Rico, NYC, Chicago, Vegas, and California. I watch the first two celebrations (Star in PR, and Times Square ball drop) then called it a night. Secrets said they would air all 5 of them. I guess they did or social media would have gone wild by now.
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The U.S. Commonwealth in the Caribbean is "Puerto Rico" and not "Porta Rico".
 


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