New Year’s Eve hosts include Seacrest, Daly, Teigen and Harvey
If you're ushering in 2019 by watching TV, you have a choice of familiar hosts Monday in New York.
Ryan Seacrest returns to oversee “Dick
Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve,” marking its 47th anniversary on ABC. The broadcast starts at 8 p.m., runs 5 ½ hours and pauses for late local news. Seacrest will be assisted in Times Square by Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg, who talks to revelers. Set to perform are Christina Aguilera, Bastille, Dan + Shay and New Kids On The Block. Lucy Hale hosts from New Orleans. Ciara guides the Hollywood Party portions, which will feature Lauren Alaina, Kelsea Ballerini, Bazzi, Kane Brown, Camila Cabello, the Chainsmokers, Foster the People, Halsey, Dua Lipa, Ella Mai, Shawn Mendes, Charlie Puth and Weezer. “NBC’s New Year’s Eve” starts at 10 p.m., breaks for local news and returns from 11:30 to 12:30 a.m. Carson Daly and Chrissy Teigen host from Times Square with Leslie Jones (“Saturday Night Live”). The performers include Diana Ross, Kelly Clarkson, Andy Grammer, John Legend, Jennifer Lopez, Bebe Rexha and Blake Shelton. Keith Urban and Brett Young perform in Nashville. “Fox’s New Year’s Eve” offers Steve Harvey as host from Times Square. The broadcast runs 8 to 10 p.m., pauses for local news and resumes from 11 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Maria Menounos joins Harvey to welcome performers Sting, Snoop Dogg, Robin Thicke, Florence + the Machine, Jason Aldean, Juanes and Why Don't We.
Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen reunite to co-host “New Year’s Eve Live” on CNN. They start at 8 p.m. in Times Square. At 12:30 a.m., Brooke Baldwin and Don Lemon take over in New Orleans. Fox News Channel presents “AllAmerican New Year” from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. The hosts from Times Square are Lisa “Kennedy” Montgomery of Fox Business Network and Pete Hegseth of “Fox & Friends Weekend.” Griff Jenkins and Carley Shimkus host the two-hour special “Countdown to All-American New Year” at 8 p.m. Contributing to the coverage will be Tyrus and Britt McHenry, Bryan Llenas and Jedediah Bila from New York, Tomi Lahren from Nashville, Lawrence Jones from New Orleans and Phil Keating in Miami. Fox News will present performances by Bebe Rexha and lovelytheband.
Rexha and lovelytheband are part of the Times Square New Year’s Eve commercial-free webcast. Allison Hagendorf hosts. The 10th annual webcast starts with the ball raising at 6 p.m., features behind-the-scenes stories and star interviews before the ball drop at midnight. The show will be streamed live on websites TimesSquareNYC.org, NewYearsEve.nyc, Livestream.com/2019 and TimesSquareBall.net.