# New Year's Eve TV programming

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-tv-programming/144463>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 23, 2002, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-tv-programming/144463 "2002-12-23T01:51:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-tv-programming/144463/1 "2002-12-23T01:51:05Z")

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Why aren’t there any “year in review” type TV shows any more? They used to show them on New Year’s Eve. A timeline of major news events, pop culture stuff, human interest stuff, awards shows, all kinds of fun stuff. A great sendoff to the old year. Now all we get is Dick Clark and the latest noisy music acts. Who cares?