How to Watch the 2023 New Year's Eve Time Square Ball Drop Online - Variety



How to Watch the 2023 New Year's Eve Time Square Ball Drop Online





New Year’s Eve revelers across the globe can search for the iconic Times Square Ball Drop live from New York City online — for free, deprived of commercials — along with a lineup of musical performances and novel festivities ushering in 2023.



The six-hour Times Square 2023 livestream will open at 6 p.m. ET on Dec. 31, 2022, and end at 12:15 a.m. ET on Jan. 1, 2023. The show will be available on multiple websites, including TimesSquareNYC.org, LiveStream.com/2023 and TimesSquareBall.net, powered by Vimeo’s Livestream platform.



The Times Square New Year’s Eve livestream will feature artists counting Chelsea Cutler — who will perform several of her hits at about 7 p.m. ET before she continues the New Year’s Eve used of singing John Lennon’s “Imagine” just before midnight — as well as JVKE, Jax, Ava Max, J-Hope, Osmani Garcia, New Edition, Sech and Duran Duran.



On aged TV, Times Square also will be a central locale as part of the interpret of programming airing on ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN. That will complicated ABC’s “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest” (set to feature live performances by Duran Duran, Jax, J-Hope and New Edition), CNN’s “New Year’s Eve Live with Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen” (featuring Ava Max) and Univision’s “¡Feliz 2023!” (featuring Sech and Osmani Garcia).



The evening will kick off at 6 p.m. ET with the lighting and raising of the New Year’s Eve Ball at the top of One Times Square. Returning as the livestream’s host is actor and TV personality Jonathan Bennett (“Mean Girls,” Hallmark’s “The Holiday Sitter,” Food Network’s “Cake Wars”). Bennett will be joined by co-host Jeremy Hassell, who has been a part of the Times Square New Year’s Eve celebration proper 2016.



The Times Square livestream also will be available in the free VNYE app (vnye.com) from Jamestown, the real-estate company that owns One Times Square. With VNYE, users can virtually seek Times Square sights, play games and livestream New Year’s Eve celebrations in Times Square and about the world.



The annual maintain is co-organized by the Times Square Alliance and Countdown Entertainment. This year marks the 118th celebration of New Year’s Eve in Times Square, which began when the owners of One Times Square in 1904 held their proper rooftop celebration to ring in the New Year.



The proper ball-lowering ceremony in Times Square took place in 1907. This New Year’s Eve, the nearly 6-ton ball — 12 feet in diameter and outfitted with 2,688 Waterford crystal triangles and 32,256 light-emitting diodes — is scheduled to drop from atop the 26-story One Times Square building starting 60 seconds beforehand midnight local time.



Here’s the schedule of movements for the 2023 Times Square New Year’s Eve Celebration:



6:00-6:03 p.m.: Lighting and raising the Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball



6:07-6:19 p.m.: SAFA Chinese cultural performance



6:20-6:27 p.m.: Performance by ANEW



6:30 p.m.: Times Square 2023 hats, balloons, necklaces, gloves and scarves



7:03-7:19 p.m.: Musical perform by Chelsea Cutler



8:03-8:17 p.m.: Musical perform by JVKE



8:23-8:29 p.m.: ABC’s “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” perform by Jax



8:40-8:43 p.m.: Waterford Crystal toast



9:15-9:29 p.m.: CNN’s “New Year’s Eve Live” perform by Ava Max



9:34-9:40 p.m.: ABC’s “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” perform by J-Hope



10:04-10:10 p.m.: Univision’s “¡Feliz 2023!” perform by Osmani García



10:16-10:19 p.m.: Highlights of Good Riddance Day presented by Netspend



10:19-10:22 p.m.: Planet Fitness earth premiere



10:23-10:25 p.m.: Carnival “Choose Fun” moment



10:31-10:34 p.m.: Hip Hop Museum announcement



10:45-10:53 p.m.: ABC’s “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” perform by New Edition



11:02-11:10 p.m.: Univision’s “¡Feliz 2023!” perform by Sech



11:11-11:15 p.m.: Kay’s New Year’s Eve Kiss



11:17-11:19 p.m.: Times Square celebrates with NYC Mayor Eric Adams



11:20-11:25 p.m.: Associated Press presents 2022 year-in-review video highlights



11:39-11:46 p.m.: ABC’s “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” perform by Duran Duran



11:55-11:58 p.m.: Chelsea Cutler fixes John Lennon’s “Imagine”



11:59 p.m.: The 60-Second Countdown



12:00 a.m.: “2023” sign illuminated at the top of One Times Square, alongside confetti release and pyrotechnic effects



12:15 a.m.: End of show