# Was the Times Square ball drop televised this year? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 2, 2018, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-times-square-ball-drop-televised-this-year/805725 "2018-01-02T01:01:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2018, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-times-square-ball-drop-televised-this-year/805725/1 "2018-01-02T01:01:43Z")
I watched NBC last night after my local news. Much to my surprise, there was no Carson Daly, and the coverage was from Boston instead of New York. I do remember reading a month or so ago, that Toshiba was backing out of its Times Square sponsorship. Could this be related? ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2018, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-times-square-ball-drop-televised-this-year/805725/2 "2018-01-02T01:03:13Z")
It was on ABC. Dick Clark’s New Years Rockin Eve With Ryan Seacrest. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2018, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-times-square-ball-drop-televised-this-year/805725/3 "2018-01-02T01:07:22Z")
It was on CNN, with Anderson Cooper. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2018, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-times-square-ball-drop-televised-this-year/805725/4 "2018-01-02T01:07:38Z")
And on CNN with Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2018, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-times-square-ball-drop-televised-this-year/805725/5 "2018-01-02T01:43:07Z")
It also was on Fox, with Steve Harvey. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2018, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-times-square-ball-drop-televised-this-year/805725/6 "2018-01-02T03:12:42Z")
So apparently it was on every single channel known to man except the one the OP watched. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2018, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-times-square-ball-drop-televised-this-year/805725/7 "2018-01-02T03:26:57Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > So apparently it was on every single channel known to man except the one the OP watched. Dang. I hate it when that happens. ---
**Author:** ![Arkcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Arkcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arkcon)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2018, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-times-square-ball-drop-televised-this-year/805725/8 "2018-01-02T03:30:57Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > So apparently it was on every single channel known to man except the one the OP watched. Oh, how tough can it be. There’s like 3 channels, maybe 5 with independents, and two blurry PBS channels depending on how you orient the ariel. This post bought to you by 1974. I noticed that I couldn’t find the old foggies on PBS. But I’ll suspect that hasn’t be televised for a number of years. ---
**Author:** ![Nayna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ebca7d/32.png) [@Nayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nayna)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2018, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-times-square-ball-drop-televised-this-year/805725/9 "2018-01-02T03:31:26Z")
I read that originally a football game was on the NBC schedule, but then _that_ schedule was changed, and they didn’t have time/didn’t want to switch everything around to accommodate the ball drop. ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2018, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-times-square-ball-drop-televised-this-year/805725/10 "2018-01-02T03:33:02Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > So apparently it was on every single channel known to man except the one the OP watched. One of the two. Neither NBC nor CBS had it. Then again, when was the last time CBS had any new late night programming on New Year’s Eve? I remember when it aired Letterman reruns. And wasn’t Carson Daly on NBC last year a one-off thing, probably because it was a Saturday night? I don’t remember NBC ever doing a Times Square show (except maybe at the end of 1999) before then; Johnny Carson and Jay Leno both tended to do “in-studio” celebrations at midnight. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2018, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-times-square-ball-drop-televised-this-year/805725/11 "2018-01-02T03:33:14Z")
CNN did a report from a pot party bus in Denver, which drew the wrath of Fox’s Laura Ingraham.