New Year's Eve with Carson Daly
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NBC's New Year's Eve with Carson Daly is a yearly show on NBC
. Its first broadcast aired on December 31, 2003 live from Times Square
in New York City
. It airs live on the East Coast.
It is produced by Universal Media Studios (formerly NBC Studios & NBC Universal Television Studio) and Carson Daly Productions. It features musical guests and celebrity interviews with Carson Daly
hosting.
It also airs live in all time zones on CNBC
and is tape delayed in each time zone to coincide with midnight on NBC affiliates. Filler programming such as Most Outrageous Moments
is aired between late local news
and New Year's Eve in markets outside the Eastern Time Zone.
Because exclusive rights to the Times Square concert stage are held by ABC
for their New Year's coverage, NBC holds its own concerts on the Rockefeller Plaza outside NBC's New York studios
, as well as in Los Angeles. ABC's concerts can occasionally be heard in the background noise on NBC.
was the first to follow this tradition, and Jay Leno continued it when he hosted The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. These shows, intended for the Eastern and Pacific time zones, included New Year's related jokes and a countdown to midnight. Beginning in the mid-1990s, Late Night with Conan O'Brien
held a special episode specifically for the Central Time Zone, usually with Chicago-themed props in lieu of a time ball.
However, for New Year's 2003-04, Tonight was given the night off, and Carson Daly (host of NBC's other late night series, Last Call with Carson Daly
began hosting his own more conventional coverage. The special has aired annually ever since, even on years that New Year's falls on a weekend, and during the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike. Though the Late Night specials lasted until 2004-05, after three years of weekend New Years and the writers' strike, Late Night never returned to live specials and has aired a repeat after Daly's program ever since.
The special played a very important role in the 2010 Tonight Show conflict
. To accommodate New Year's Eve with Carson Daly, NBC inserted a contract clause into Conan O'Brien
's contract that allowed The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
to be postponed to as late as 12:05 a.m. so that specials such as this could be aired. Though this was supposed to only be used for temporary preemptions, NBC attempted to make this permanent by proposing that The Jay Leno Show
be cut by a half hour and moved to an 11:35 p.m. to 12:05 a.m. time slot. Ironically, such a move would have left Daly unemployed. O'Brien objected to this stretching of the contract language and left NBC in January 2010.
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
. Its first broadcast aired on December 31, 2003 live from Times Square
Times Square
Times Square is a major commercial intersection in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets...
in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
. It airs live on the East Coast.
It is produced by Universal Media Studios (formerly NBC Studios & NBC Universal Television Studio) and Carson Daly Productions. It features musical guests and celebrity interviews with Carson Daly
Carson Daly
Carson Jones Daly is an American television host. He is the host of NBC's Last Call with Carson Daly, a late-night talk show that began airing on January 7, 2002. Before his role as host of that program, Daly was a VJ on MTV's TRL, and a DJ for the Southern California based radio station KROQ-FM...
hosting.
It also airs live in all time zones on CNBC
CNBC
CNBC is a satellite and cable television business news channel in the U.S., owned and operated by NBCUniversal. The network and its international spinoffs cover business headlines and provide live coverage of financial markets. The combined reach of CNBC and its siblings is 390 million viewers...
and is tape delayed in each time zone to coincide with midnight on NBC affiliates. Filler programming such as Most Outrageous Moments
Most Outrageous Moments
Most Outrageous Moments is an NBC clip show showcasing video bloopers and mishaps, and commonly used as a backup program by NBC to fill any timeslots where regular programming did not get any traction in the ratings, or to fill in timeslots between seasons of reality programming...
is aired between late local news
Local news
In journalism, local news refers to news coverage of events in a local context which would not normally be of interest to those of other localities, or otherwise be of national or international scope.-Television:...
and New Year's Eve in markets outside the Eastern Time Zone.
Because exclusive rights to the Times Square concert stage are held by ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
for their New Year's coverage, NBC holds its own concerts on the Rockefeller Plaza outside NBC's New York studios
GE Building
The GE Building is an Art Deco skyscraper that forms the centerpiece of Rockefeller Center in the midtown Manhattan section of New York City. Known as the RCA Building until 1988, it is most famous for housing the headquarters of the television network NBC...
, as well as in Los Angeles. ABC's concerts can occasionally be heard in the background noise on NBC.
History
Prior to 2003, NBC aired special editions of its regular late night programming. The Tonight Show Starring Johnny CarsonThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under the Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night....
was the first to follow this tradition, and Jay Leno continued it when he hosted The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. These shows, intended for the Eastern and Pacific time zones, included New Year's related jokes and a countdown to midnight. Beginning in the mid-1990s, Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Late Night with Conan O'Brien is an American late-night talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien that aired 2,725 episodes on NBC between 1993 and 2009. The show featured varied comedic material, celebrity interviews, and musical and comedy performances. Late Night aired weeknights at 12:37 am...
held a special episode specifically for the Central Time Zone, usually with Chicago-themed props in lieu of a time ball.
However, for New Year's 2003-04, Tonight was given the night off, and Carson Daly (host of NBC's other late night series, Last Call with Carson Daly
Last Call with Carson Daly
Last Call with Carson Daly is an American late night talk show that is broadcast on NBC. The show is hosted by Carson Daly, the half-hour show featuring celebrity interviews, documentary-style coverage of a topic, and musical performances. Last Call airs weeknights at 1:35 a.m. Eastern / 12:35 a.m....
began hosting his own more conventional coverage. The special has aired annually ever since, even on years that New Year's falls on a weekend, and during the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike. Though the Late Night specials lasted until 2004-05, after three years of weekend New Years and the writers' strike, Late Night never returned to live specials and has aired a repeat after Daly's program ever since.
The special played a very important role in the 2010 Tonight Show conflict
2010 Tonight Show conflict
In early 2010, American television network NBC and two of its late-night talk show hosts, Conan O'Brien and Jay Leno, engaged in a media and public relations conflict over the host and airtime of The Tonight Show, the network's long-running late night program...
. To accommodate New Year's Eve with Carson Daly, NBC inserted a contract clause into Conan O'Brien
Conan O'Brien
Conan Christopher O'Brien is an American television host, comedian, writer, producer and performer. Since November 2010 he has hosted Conan, a late-night talk show that airs on the American cable television station TBS....
's contract that allowed The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien is an American late-night talk show that featured Conan O'Brien as host from June 1, 2009 to January 22, 2010 as part of NBC's long-running Tonight Show franchise...
to be postponed to as late as 12:05 a.m. so that specials such as this could be aired. Though this was supposed to only be used for temporary preemptions, NBC attempted to make this permanent by proposing that The Jay Leno Show
The Jay Leno Show
The Jay Leno Show is an American comedy show created by and starring Jay Leno, that aired from September 14, 2009 to February 9, 2010 on NBC following the May 29, 2009 conclusion of Leno's first tenure as host of The Tonight Show...
be cut by a half hour and moved to an 11:35 p.m. to 12:05 a.m. time slot. Ironically, such a move would have left Daly unemployed. O'Brien objected to this stretching of the contract language and left NBC in January 2010.
See also
- Last Call with Carson DalyLast Call with Carson DalyLast Call with Carson Daly is an American late night talk show that is broadcast on NBC. The show is hosted by Carson Daly, the half-hour show featuring celebrity interviews, documentary-style coverage of a topic, and musical performances. Last Call airs weeknights at 1:35 a.m. Eastern / 12:35 a.m....
- Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest