New Year's Eve with Carson Daly

New Year's Eve with Carson Daly
Starring	Carson Daly
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	9
Production
Running time	60 minutes
Production company(s)	Universal Television Carson Daly Productions
Release
Original network	NBC
Picture format	1080i (HDTV)
Original release	December 31, 2003

New Year's Eve with Carson Daly is a television special which airs on New Year's Eve annually on NBC. The special is broadcast from Times Square in New York City, and prominently features coverage of its annual ball drop event, along with live and pre-recorded musical performances by popular musicians from Rockefeller Center and Los Angeles. Premiering for New Year's Eve 2003-04, the special competes against similar specials that also cover the ball drop, such as ABC's New Year's Rockin' Eve. The special is hosted and produced by Carson Daly—better known since 2011 as host of The Voice, through his self-named production company, in association with Universal Television.

Until 2015, similarly to other New Year's Eve specials broadcast by the major networks, New Year's Eve with Carson Daly was divided into two halves, including an hour aired in primetime at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT, followed by the main program at 11:30 p.m. following late local news or other programming. Since the 2016 edition, the primetime portion was dropped, and has been replaced with special editions of other NBC programs.

Since the 1940s, NBC had broadcast coverage of New Year's festivities from Times Square anchored by Ben Grauer on both radio and television. Its coverage was later incorporated into special editions of the network's late night talk show, The Tonight Show, continuing through Johnny Carson's tenure on the program. Beginning in 1972, NBC aired the first two editions of Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, before it moved to its current home of ABC.

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