From 1991 to 2020, the Fox television network aired New Year's Eve specials with various hosts and formats. Many of these specials featured music performances by popular musicians, and coverage of the Times Square ball drop in New York City, although some deviated from this format by focusing on festivities in other cities (such as Las Vegas and Miami).
The first special, Fox New Year's Eve Live, aired from December 1991 to 1993, with a similar format used for 1994–95. From December 1995 to 1998, Fox broadcast its New Year's specials from Las Vegas; the 1996–97 special notably covered the demolition of the former Hacienda resort, which was scheduled for midnight ET. From 1999 to 2002, Fox aired specials with tie-ins for the Billboard Music Awards and coverage from Times Square, taking a hiatus in 2000 for millennium coverage hosted by Fox News personalities Brit Hume and Paula Zahn.
For 2002–03 and 2003–04, Fox broadcast America's Party: Live from Las Vegas, which was hosted by Ryan Seacrest from The Venetian. The special moved to New York City for 2004–05 as New Year's Eve: Live from Times Square, with Seacrest remaining as host. After Seacrest began co-hosting its competitor New Year's Rockin' Eve on ABC, the special was renamed New Year's Eve Live for 2005–06, with Regis Philbin as host. The next two editions of New Year's Eve Live were hosted by Cat Deeley, after which the special moved back to Las Vegas with a rotation of different hosts each year.
Beginning in 2014–15, Fox replaced New Year's Eve Live with Pitbull's New Year's Revolution, which featured concerts headlined by rapper Pitbull from Miami's Bayfront Park. For 2017–18, Fox returned to a Times Square-based special, this time hosted by comedian and television personality Steve Harvey. This format lasted until 2020–21, when Fox aired New Year's Eve Toast & Roast, which was hosted by comedians Ken Jeong and Joel McHale from Los Angeles, with Kelly Osbourne as a correspondent in Times Square. While Fox intended to retain the format for 2021–22, the special was canceled and replaced with reruns due to COVID-19 concerns in New York City, and Fox has quietly forewent any coverage on broadcast television since.
For 2004–05, the special moved to Times Square and was renamed New Year's Eve: Live from Times Square, with Seacrest remaining as host; it featured performances by the rock bands Evanescence and Hoobastank, as well as the world premiere of Usher's "mini-movie" Rhythm City Volume One: Caught Up.[28][29][30]
Beginning in 2005–06, Seacrest moved to Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve on ABC to succeed Dick Clark as host; Clark had missed the previous year's edition due to a stroke in December 2004, and retired as main host due to a lingering speech impediment caused by the stroke. At this time, Fox's special was renamed New Year's Eve Live,[31] with Regis Philbin—who had guest hosted New Year's Rockin' Eve the previous year due to Clark's stroke—moving to Fox to host the 2005–06 edition.[31]
The Mandalay Bay hosted Fox's New Year's Eve Live from 2009 to 2013.
Beginning with the 2008–09 edition, New Year's Eve Live began to once again be hosted from Las Vegas with coverage of Times Square,[34] with a different host annually. Each edition from 2009 to 2010 onward emanated from the Mandalay Bay resort and casino.[35][36][37][38][39]
The 2009–10 edition was hosted by Carmen Electra from Mandalay Bay Beach, and was titled Billboard's New Year's Eve Live as a tie-in with the Billboard Music Awards, including countdowns of the top entertainment and music moments of the year, and of the top highlights of the Billboard Music Awards. Performers included Kris Allen and Allison Iraheta of American Idolseason 8, and Sean Kingston.[41][35][42]
December 31, 2014(2014-12-31)– December 31, 2016(2016-12-31)
From 2014 to 2015 through 2016–17, Fox broadcast Pitbull's New Year's Revolution, which was created and produced by hip-hop artist Pitbull. It was broadcast from Bayfront Park in Miami, and featured live performances by Pitbull and other musicians (with the 2015–16 and 2016–17 editions having a particular focus on hip-hop and R&B acts).
Pitbull in 2012
The new special was announced in May 2014, and would be co-produced by Endemol North America and Pitbull's production company Honey I'm Home; the studio had signed an exclusive development deal with Pitbull in January 2014. New Year's Revolution marked the first production of a new Endemol division, Endemol Live; Endemol North America co-CEO Charlie Corwin explained that the new division "reflects a larger plan to continue to evolve Endemol North America into a studio for next-generation success and profitability". Fellow CEO Cris Abrego felt that New Year's Revolution would be "unlike anything else you have ever seen on television" and would mark "the start of a new tradition".[46][47]
In October 2014, it was revealed that Pitbull had been negotiating for the use of Bayfront Park as part of the special's associated festivities. Mayor of MiamiTomás Regalado supported the proposed events due to the amount of publicity it would bring the city, arguing that it would be "extraordinary" to "have three hours on live television, on [Fox], competing with Times Square. The only difference is they have a ball and we have an orange."[48] Portions of the special were taped at the Thompson Hotel on Miami Beach, including performances by The Band Perry, Becky G, Enrique Iglesias, Fall Out Boy, and Fifth Harmony.[49][50] The inaugural broadcast culminated with a free,[49] live concert by Pitbull at Bayfront Park leading into the new year.[51][52]
In October 2015, Fox confirmed that Pitbull's New Year's Revolution would return for 2015–16. The public festivities for the 2016 edition were expanded to include a two-day food festival, the Norwegian Worldwide Food & Wine Party, whose ticketed attendees were given priority seating for the concert at the Klipsch Amphitheatre at Bayfront Park.[53][54]Terry Crews and Wendy Williams co-hosted the special,[55] which featured appearances by Austin Mahone, Camila Cabello, Earth, Wind & Fire, Jussie Smollett, Sean Combs, Shawn Mendes, Prince Royce, R. City, Pia Mia, and Timbaland with Yazz of Fox series Empire.[56] John Hamlin, the former senior vice president of music events and talent at CMT, was also brought on to serve as a producer for the special under his Switched On Entertainment banner. Hamlin promised that unlike the 2015 edition, the 2016 edition would be entirely live with no prerecorded content.[57][58]
The Fox telecast was not renewed for 2017–18; Pitbull has continued to organize New Year's Eve concerts at Bayfront Park in the years that followed.[62][63][64] He also appeared during Univision's Spanish-language New Year's Eve special ¡Feliz 2018!.[65]
Broadcast
In 2015 and 2016, similarly to other New Year's specials across the major networks, the special was divided into two segments, with the first two-hour segment airing during Fox's primetime programming from 8:00p.m. to 10:00p.m. ET/PT, followed by a 90-minute segment beginning at 11:00p.m. ET/PT following late local programming and/or newscasts to cover the countdown to midnight.[50] The 2017 edition only contained the late-night portion.[59]
Viewership for the inaugural edition of Pitbull's New Year's Revolution was on par with Fox's previous New Year's specials; Nielsen ratings for the late-night segment recorded a 2.6 household rating, and a 2.2 rating in the 18–49 demographic (improving over the 2.1 of New Year's Eve Live 2014), putting it behind NBC's New Year's Eve with Carson Daly (4.9, 3.1 among 18–49s) and ABC's New Year's Rockin' Eve (10.7, 7.3 among 18–49s).[66]
The 2016 edition of Pitbull's New Year's Revolution brought notable gains; the primetime portion recorded 2.6 million viewers and a 29% increase among viewers 18 to 49, while the late-night portion recorded a 3.1 household rating and a 2.7 rating among 18–49s.[67] Ratings were down in 2017, with a 2.6 household rating and a 2.4 rating among 18–49s.[59]
December 31, 2017(2017-12-31)– December 31, 2019(2019-12-31)
On November 16, 2017, Fox announced that it would air a new special hosted by television personality Steve Harvey, known as New Year's Eve with Steve Harvey: Live from Times Square, for New Year's Eve 2018. The new special would be produced by IMG, who was also the producer of Harvey's eponymous syndicated talk show.[68][69][70][71]
As before, the special was divided into primetime and late-night segments. Facing one fewer competitor over 2017 (New Year's Eve with Carson Daly was placed on hiatus by NBC, as it tentatively scheduled Sunday Night Football for the final game of the 2017 NFL regular season. However, the NFL ultimately forwent a primetime game),[83] Fox finished in second place for the night behind New Year's Rockin' Eve, with a total of 8.5 million viewers for its primetime coverage (a 98% increase over last year's Pitbull's New Year's Revolution), and a 2.9 rating among 18-49s, making it Fox's most-watched New Year's special to date.[84]
With NBC's special returning for 2019, ratings for the late-night portion of Fox's special fell from 4.9 to 3.8 in metered markets.[85]
The primetime portion of the 2020 edition drew 2.8 million viewers.[86]
On December 2, 2020, Fox announced that it would air a new special hosted by comedians and The Masked Singer panelists Ken Jeong and Joel McHale, Fox's New Year's Eve Toast & Roast. It was produced from Los Angeles and featured a retrospective honoring "those that helped to make the world a better place this past year." The special was produced by Fox Alternative Entertainment, and divided into primetime and late-night segments.[87][88]
For 2021–22, Fox originally announced that Toast & Roast would return, with performances by Billy Idol, Imagine Dragons, Maroon 5, Pink, and Trace Adkins (WWE SmackDown was pre-empted to FS1, airing a prerecorded year-in-review special).[92][93] On December 21, 2021, however, Fox announced that due to COVID-19 pandemic-related concerns—especially involving the widespread surge of the Omicron variant in New York City—that the special had been cancelled.[94][95] Reruns of the Beat Shazam, Gordon Ramsay's Road Trip, and I Can See Your Voice holiday specials aired in its place; thus, Fox did not provide any national New Year's programming on broadcast television for the first time since 1991,[96] an absence that would continue thereafter.[97]
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