Free Feed For New Year's Eve Ball Drop

Thanks to the Times Square Alliance and Countdown Entertainment, stations and cable programmers will once again have access to a free feed of the Time Square New Years Eve festivities. 

Eager to plug the city, the alliance is also making the footage available to user-generated sites like YouTube for the first time, as well as to mobile phone users and IPTV services.

There will be eight cameras to cover the action leading up the iconic ball-drop and fireworks.

For feed times and satellite coordinates, click here

John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.