ABC rang in the New Year with the largest audience across the broadcast and cable news networks’ special programming.
31.12.2022 - 16:23 / usmagazine.com
It’s the final countdown! As the clock strikes midnight, Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve will usher in 2023, just as it has since 1972.
Ryan Seacrest will helm the celebrations, which will air on ABC beginning at 8 P.M. ET/7 P.M. CT Saturday, December 31. The Live! With Kelly and Ryan host, 48, has helmed the NYE maintain for 18 years, beginning in 2005 while cohosting alongside Dick Clark himself. After the TV pioneer’s death in 2012, Seacrest permanently took over hosting duties.
For those without cable looking to tune into the festivities, viewers can catch the special on Hulu + Live TV, as well as on DirecTV and Vidgo. While the party starts at 8 P.M. ET/7 P.M. CT on Saturday, it will air for five straight hours before concluding at 2 A.M. ET.
This year’s holiday special will feature a wealth of performers and celebrity hosts from coast-to-coast, as well as a Spanish-language broadcast from Puerto Rico. Ciara will head the celebration at Disneyland while Billy Porter takes on New Orleans. In addition to their hosting duties, both stars will perform a medley of their respective hits. Halle Bailey, Shaggy, Aly & AJ, Ben Platt and more singers will also hit the stage at the Happiest Place on Earth.
DJ D-Nice will helm the Los Angeles festivities, which include a star-studded lineup of performers that include Wiz Khalifa, Dove Cameron, Finneas and more. In Puerto Rico, former Miss Universe Dayanara Torres will lead the countdown while Farruko will perform.
The “On Air With Ryan Seacrest” personality — who will once again make his return to Times Square for New Year’s — has had his own number of cohosts on the holiday special throughout the years, including Jenny McCarthy, Lucy Hale, Jessica Simpson, Nick Lachey, Regis
ABC rang in the New Year with the largest audience across the broadcast and cable news networks’ special programming.
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New Year’s Eve festivities are being broadcast across the country Saturday, from Miami to Los Angeles to the famous Times Square ball drop in New York City.