TIMES SQUARE 2010 NEW YEAR’S EVE

LIVE WEBCAST/BLOGCAST

GLOBAL CELEBRATION

Your backstage pass

to the World Famous Times Square New Year's Eve Celebration

The Times Square Alliance and Countdown Entertainment, co-organizers of New Year’s Eve in Times Square, joined by Livestream, invite you to join us for a new international six-and-a-half- hour broadcast of the Times Square New Year’s Eve Celebration.  Five co-hosts will cover all the action in Times Square from the 6pm Ball Raising ceremony to the hourly practice countdowns, stage performances, handouts, special guests, and the midnight Ball Drop!  For the first time, worldwide viewers will be able to participate in the celebration while focusing on five separate insider story lines throughout the night.

The webcast will be streamed live simultaneously right here at www.TimesSquareNYC.org. Viewers around the world can tune in to watch and chat live online. The video solution is integrated with social media tools Twitter and Facebook, as well as live event tool CoveritLive, allowing you to interact with other viewers and with the New Year's Eve production team. 

Viewers will also be able to access the webcast on their iPhones at iphone.livestream.com/2010.

Facebook users can easily add the widget to their profile's by using our special Facebook APP here - http://apps.facebook.com/timessquare/

View the announcement of the TS NYE 2010 Worldwide Webcast Event in the New York Times

Embed the Times Square 2010 Live Webcast/Blogcast on your site!

Attention bloggers, webmasters and online publishers of every kind! You'll be able to embed the Livestream video player along with its social media tools on your sites and make the webcast available to your communities.

The Times Square 2010 Live Webcast/Blogcast will begin at 5:50pm on December 31st and end at 12:20am on January 1st.  The show will be available right here at www.TimesSquareNYC.org/2010widgets.  Additionally, the Event Organizers and Livestream are offering widgets of varying sizes for bloggers, webmasters, and digital media outlets to embed in their own sites as a source of fun and entertaining content on New Year’s Eve.  For more information on the variety of non-commercial widgets available and the embedding codes, please visit http://www.livestream.com/2010.

Grab a widget:

Video Players with Chats (CoverItLive widget, Twitter chat, Facebook chat)

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Video Players with Chats (CoverItLive widget, Twitter chat, Facebook chat)

 

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ABOUT THE WEBCAST

ONE WORLD REVEALED - tells the story behind the million revelers who make the pilgrimage to Times Square to be part of the global celebration at the Crossroads of the World.   The co-hosts will seek out revelers from across the globe to discover their personal stories and share their energy and excitement to be celebrating the New Year in Times Square.  At BlogCast Headquarters at the Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square we will follow our symbolic journey across the globe using a large world map to showcase the people who traveled to Times Square to celebrate together as the Ball drops.  The worldwide audience will be encouraged to challenge our co-hosts to seek out revelers from their home countries.  “Is anyone from Iceland here?”

 

WHAT IT TAKES – tells the story behind the Broadway curtain of actually producing New York City’s largest annual celebration through time-lapse videos, voice-over narrations, animations, and interviews with event producers and directors of key departments.  The co-hosts and worldwide audience will discover not only the tremendous amount of work and state-of the-art technology but also the extraordinary personalities involved in the Times Square New Year’s Eve celebration.  The worldwide audience will be encouraged to ask questions from cabling to confetti, staging to pyrotechnics, video production to Ball Dropping; and our co-hosts will find the answers!  “How many workers does it take to screw in a light bulb on the Times Square Ball?” Answer – none because the Ball no longer has light bulbs.

 

PHOTOMANIA – tells the story visually of the worldwide audience participating in this global celebration at the Crossroads of the World.  The co-hosts will encourage the worldwide audience to twitpic their New Year’s Eve party photos to the BlogCast Headquarters at the Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square.  These photos will appear in the live Blogcast.  Throughout the celebration, five photos will be selected for the worldwide audience to vote for their favorite.  The winning photos will appear atop One Times Square on the giant Toshiba video screen directly beneath the New Year’s Eve Ball.  “Hey, look there’s Grandma in Times Square!”    

 

TIMES SQUARE – tells the story behind Times Square and its world famous New Year’s Eve celebration.  The party started here in 1904 with over 200,000 revelers celebrating the New Year.  Today, Times Square is famous not only for New Year’s Eve but also the bright lights of Broadway, the streetscape of spectacular signs, and huge public gatherings throughout its history.  Our co-hosts and worldwide audience will be entertained by fascinating tales of Times Square told by the people working and living in Times Square.  Moreover, the worldwide audience will be encouraged to share their Times Square stories on our live blogcast.  “What did you do on your first visit to Times Square?”

 

THE 1st OFFICIAL NEW YEAR’S EVE LIVE BLOGCAST HEADQUARTERS - tells the story behind the bloggers, guest panelists, moderators, and commentators working at the LIVE BlogCast Headquarters located at the Official Times Square New Year’s Eve party hosted by the Event Organizers at the Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square.  BlogCast Headquarter is the central nervous system of our global celebration reaching across the globe to encourage participation, collaboration, and dialogue with every viewer.  Our goal is more than passively broadcasting Times Square New Year’s Eve around the world; we are actively engaging the world to virtually celebrate together.  The New Year’s Eve LIVE BlogCast Headquarters provides the rare opportunity to bring the world together to reflect on the past, hope for the future, and celebrate today!  

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