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December 31, 2005

Times Square live etc.; 'Blog trip around the world for New Year's Eve'

It's snowing.

New Year's Eve TV programming. WaPo.
Times Square.
More links to where it's already 2006.

EarthCam's New Year's Eve Webcast. More live NYC.

10:58 p.m. Friday
Longtime radio guy Lou Josephs has compiled an informed stream-of-consciousness guide to webcasters' live coverage of New Year's Eve as the wave breaks around the world. Fortunately, the rotation of the Earth staggers the celebrations, and they begin while you're probably still asleep.

Where in the world do you want to be tonight? is the beginning of their list of links likely to be worth checking out, beginning at 1000 UTC (5:00 a.m. EST) with Wallis and Futuna in the South Pacific. After a dazzling brain dump about reception options, Lou confesses, "I have never heard anything from Wallis Island."

To get you started here is a twenty two minute audio clip from WABC, it features Cousin Bruce Morrow (now at CBS FM in NYC), Guy Lombardo via remote and Charlie Greer (deceased) following on the overnight. Suddenly it's 1965....

He also links a clip of NBC Radio's Ben Grauer's 1971 in Times Square, one of his last live reports.

This is a group blog project by people who know their stuff. Here's how Lou's intro (Background) starts:

Several years ago, Kim Elliott at the Voice of America spent his New Years Eve, listening to how the world celebrated using short-wave radio to hear international and domestic stations ring in the New Year....

This year, Kim's an editor of this group blog. More details, from two emails:

I got a bunch of my friends to help out this year on the blog trip around the world for New Years Eve.
Kim - audience research guru at VOA -- will be doing the shortwave side of all this. What stations he hears, he may also check web streams as well.

Vasilly Strelinkov will do Russia from Moscow. Tom Sundstrom, who hosts a few international broadcast stations from a web farm in south jersey will do Korea, Indonesia, Sri Lanka.

Best time to hear really cool stuff 6 to 9 am in the morning, then 11-1 pm, then 3-7 pm. The 3-7 time period in years past has been the heaviest visits.

Lou's got just the morning picks up so far, but he owns this story; he'll be updating frequently at Medianetwork. There's more at Lou's main blog site, but his host there has been down much of the day so he's posting to a backup server.

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