If 2016 is just around the corner and you’re interested in watching the ball drop at midnight on New Year’s Eve, here’s how to watch the Times Square ball drop on New Year’s Eve on a variety of devices.
Most people will either be at home or in a bar or restaurant to celebrate the start of the new year, so watching it on TV will be the easiest option for most viewers. However, if you’re going to be outside and can’t be near a television to watch the ball drop, mobile options are available for both iPhone and Android devices.
Also, if you don’t have a TV to watch, you can stream the ball drop live on a computer. Here’s a more in-depth look at how you can watch this year’s Christmas prom fall in Times Square, whether on TV, your smartphone, tablet or computer.
On TV
If you want to watch the New Year’s Eve on TV, all major local networks will have their own broadcast and as long as you have an antenna that can pick up the major local channels, you’re good to go.
“Dick Clark’s Primetime New Year’s Rockin’ Night” will premiere at 8 p.m. on ABC with reporter Jenny McCarthy and host Ryan Seacrest from Times Square in New York, while Fergie will host in Los Angeles on the west coast. . There will also be a musical performance from past American Idol winner Carrie Underwood.
On NBC, Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb will host “One Toast Until 2015!” Interviews with Zooey Deschanel, Eva Longoria, Michael Bublé, Blake Shelton, Katherine Heigl, Howie Mandel, Kelly Osbourne and Margaret Cho are also included. Then at 10 pm Carson Daly, Andy Cohen and Gwen Stefani will host “New Year’s Eve with Carson Daly”.
From 8 p.m. on, FOX will broadcast “Pitbull’s New Year’s Revolution” with Pitbull hosting in Miami and musical performances by Jussie Smollett, Shawn Mendes, Austin Mahone, Pia Mia, Prince Royce and R. City.
If you’re looking for a softer version of New Year’s Eve, the New York Philharmonic will host a New Year’s Eve show on PBS that starts at 8 p.m.
CBS will not have a New Year’s Eve broadcast and will instead air reruns of TV shows.
on a mobile device
If you’re going to be out and about on New Year’s Eve and won’t be near a TV, you can catch all the action on your iPhone, iPad or Android device with the official Times Square Christmas Ball App, available for both. iOS and Android devices.
The app features “opening ceremonies, musical performances, celebrity attendance, hourly countdowns, and the midnight Ball Drop!” It includes a host of features, including watching live streams of events leading up to New Year’s Eve in Times Square.
You can also customize your Countdown Clock to your chosen time zone and find out what’s happening in and around Times Square, as well as follow and interact with the Times Square Ball on Twitter.
You can download the app below for free.
on the computer
If you are not going to be in front of the television and you cannot get the events live on your smartphone or tablet, you can watch the New Year’s Eve celebration on your computer from a web browser.
There will be a live broadcast an official live stream event for the New Year’s Eve ball, where the festivities begin at 6 pm.
Not much is known about what viewers can watch during the live stream, but the teaser video shows a handful of musical performances and interviews with a handful of celebrities, so it looks like it’ll be pretty feature-packed for viewers watching. on their computers.
