The early show that was clearly pitched at six year olds?
It’s not tradition. It’s lazy journalism clickbait.
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I expect nothing but more degrading articles by Newscorp to try and destroy the ABC. It’s their mantra, every year, every new year! Same shit, by some shit News Corp clickbait bullshit.
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Millions of Australians ring in the new year with ABC
Nearly two million Australians across the country turned to the ABC at midnight to celebrate the biggest night of the year, New Year’s Eve.
An evening filled with music and celebration highlighted the ABC’s commitment to not only entertaining Australian audiences but also supporting the wider community.
Celebrations kicked off with The Early Night Show, hosted by Rhys Nicholson, Casey Donovan and Gemma Driscoll, bringing all the family-friendly fun in the lead up to 9pm Calling Country Fireworks.
From 9:15pm, hosts Charlie Pickering and Zan Rowe presented the live concert from the Northern Broadwalk of the Sydney Opera House, featuring a stellar line-up of performances from Tones and I, Ball Park Music, Vika & Linda, Dami Im, Morgan Evans and Tasman Keith.
The perfect soundtrack for New Year’s Eve was amplified at 11pm, as we celebrated the upcoming 2023 Sydney WorldPride Festival with a special segment hosted by Jeremy Fernandez, followed by show stopping performances from Electric Fields, Courtney Act and Casey Donovan.
As the clock struck midnight, Sydney’s iconic fireworks beamed around Australia and the world.
Director of ABC Regional & Local, Judith Whelan said:
“It’s been wonderful to bring all Australians – and people all over the world – the iconic images of our New Year’s Eve celebrations on Sydney Harbour. No-one does NYE like we do – with live music, children’s entertainment and of course coverage of the magnificent fireworks display.
“I’d like to thank all the ABC staff who worked through the night to bring everyone every moment of the celebrations – across ABC TV, ABC iview, on social media and on ABC Radio – and once again, provided audio description of the fireworks for people who are blind or vision-impaired.”
ABC’s NYE TV broadcast coverage peaked with over 1.7 million tuning into either ABC or ABC NEWS for the midnight fireworks last night. A total of 685K live streams were recorded via ABC iview.
TV and ABC iview Audiences
- The Midnight Fireworks averaged 1.7m viewers, making the Midnight Fireworks again the top ranked program of the day across all channels.
- The total ABC iview live stream results of NYE coverage increased again year-on-year, achieving a record NYE result of 685K.
- The ABC TV channel on iview also delivered its strongest daily result ever of 563K.
- The ABC was also the leading network in metro markets for NYE, with a 5-city prime-time share of 27% (flat on 2021).
- 3rd Party platforms drove strong levels of off-platform live viewing, with TikTok generating the most engagement this year.
Social Audiences
ABC’s New Year’s Eve 2022 coverage was live streamed directly to ABC TV + iview’s Facebook, YouTube, TikTok and Twitter accounts and shared with more than 77 ABC and partner accounts.
This included more than 49 of the ABC’s location-based regional and capital city Facebook pages, giving viewers right across Australia the ability to join in the live coverage and bringing the ABC’s vast audience into the New Year’s Eve conversation.
- On Facebook, overnight the live streams, highlights and NYE 2022 packages amassed a combined total of 683K views on ABC and partner pages.
- On YouTube, ABC TV’s live streams, highlights and NYE 2022 packages reached 338K views at the time of reporting.
- On TikTok, ABC iview’s live stream amassed 525K views and 7.0m engagements, earning over 8,000 new followers.
- Audience engagement was strong throughout the night, with over 745K engagements across the live streams, highlights, NYE 2022 packages and event stills.
- #NYEABC trended number two on Twitter during the broadcast, holding its position as of 9am January 1.
(Sources: Khoros, Facebook Insights, Twitter, YouTube and TikTok Analytics; Numbers correct at 9am January 1, 2023.)
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ABC welcomes the New Year with a star-studded celebration
Your ABC NYE 2023 starts on Sunday 31 December at 8.30pm on ABC TV and ABC iview.
The ABC is welcoming the New Year with its hotly-anticipated NYE 2023 concert and fireworks celebration, airing on Sunday 31 December from 8:30pm.
Broadcasting live from the Sydney Opera House’s Northern Broadwalk, hosts Charlie Pickering and Zan Rowe will be joined this year by triple j Breakfast host Concetta Caristo to help see in 2024.
The festivities will kick off on ABC TV and ABC iview at 8:30pm, with a Welcome to Country followed by an exclusive preview of Muster Dogs Series 2, a behind-the-curtain look at what goes into making the best fireworks show in the world, and a special surprise from the Heeler Family!
From 9:10pm, the live music begins, getting you ready to celebrate as the clock heads towards midnight. The NYE concert will showcase the biggest names in Australian music, including Jessica Mauboy, Genesis Owusu, King Stingray, Confidence Man, Angie McMahon, Mark Seymour, Grentperez and the Queen of New Year’s Eve, Casey Donovan.
In partnership with the City of Sydney, the world-famous fireworks display will light up the city’s famous skyline, bidding a sparkling farewell to 2023 and welcoming in the New Year.
ABC’s Head of Arts, Music and Events, Kath Earle, said: “NYE is one of our favourite nights of the year! We love working with our partners City of Sydney on our show-stopping NYE broadcast. Always a night to remember, we can’t wait to celebrate with people all around the world showcasing a wonderful night of Australian music, entertainment and of course fireworks.”
The NYE 2023 concert will broadcast across the entire ABC network including ABC TV, local ABC Radio and streamed live on ABC iview and across ABC TV+iview social channels.
International audiences can also tune in to ABC Australia, and the firework displays will be audio described for the vision impaired and available on the ABC listen app.
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A far cry from a decade ago
Newscorps should save on paying Christmas penalty rates to its puppets/reporters & just start bagging the coverage now.
We all know they will, no matter what the ABC do.
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Don’t worry, they’ve already written and scheduled them, just need the intern to use a burner and make an X post on the night and paste it into the article! 
Sunday 31 December 2023
| 7:00pm | ABC News |
|---|---|
| (CC) | |
| 7:30pm | The Yearly With Charlie Pickering 2023 Rpt |
| Charlie wraps up 2023 with Margaret Pomeranz, Roy & HG, Rhys Nicholson, referendums & mushroom deaths. Can’t recall what happened this year? Don’t worry. The Yearly remembers all the news so that you don’t have to. | |
| 8:30pm | New Year’s Eve 2023: Welcome to NYE |
| The ABC’s NYE 2023 concert and fireworks celebration is back again and set to light up the night. | |
| 9:00pm | New Year’s Eve 2023: 9pm Fireworks  |
| Light up the night with the 9pm Fireworks from Sydney Harbour on New Year’s Eve as we count down towards the start of 2024. | |
| 9:05pm | New Year’s Eve 2023: Live from Sydney Harbour |
| The ABC’s NYE 2023 concert and fireworks celebration is back again and set to light up the night. | |
| 11:30pm | New Year’s Eve 2023: Countdown to Midnight |
| The whole world will be watching as more than a million revellers return to the Sydney Harbour foreshore to ring in the new year with a concert and fireworks celebration starring an incredible list of Australian artists. | |
| 12:00am | New Year’s Eve 2023: Midnight Fireworks |
| As the clock strikes midnight the world-famous Sydney Fireworks display will light up the night in a show stopping presentation as we farewell 2023 and welcome in 2024. | |
| 12:30am | rage New Year’s Special |
| The perfect playlist to your all night party! The rage New Year’s Special brings you party favourites and bangers from across the decades that will keep the dancefloor pumping til the sun comes up on 2024. |
AEDT
7:30pm Back Roads: Strzelecki Track, SA (Part 2) Rpt
8:00pm ABC News Tonight
8:30pm Australian Story: Sea Change - Sam Elsom Rpt
9:00pm New Year’s Eve: 9pm Fireworks
9:05pm ABC Nightly News
9:30pm The World In 2023 Rpt
10:00pm ABC Late News Weekend
10:30pm Y2K: The Bug That Didn’t Bite Rpt
11:00pm ABC Late News
11:30pm 7.30 The Best Of Mark Humphries Rpt
12:00am New Year’s Eve: Midnight Fireworks
12:10am ABC News Overnight
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Harry Connick Jr a late inclusion for Sydney NYE 2023
Star power for Sydney NYE 2023 with Harry Connick Jr (Australian Idol Judge) to perform before the first fireworks show for the night.
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This year marks 10 years since ABC’s first NYE coverage which wasn’t well-received at all by viewers then-hosted by Lawerence Mooney and Stephanie Brantz.
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I remember the one hosted by Julia Zemiro where she was heard saying “Thank God” at the end.
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2014/15 “Thank God” as the credits rolled
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Sydney NYE 2023 will be shown live on ABC Australia across Asia-Pacific region at 8.30pm AEDT tonight.
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and Harry Connick Jr joining cast for tonight’s show.
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When should we expect the first News Corp article panning the ABC coverage?
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Already written, just needs a few social media quotes to be added.
We should also look out for one from the DM with quotes from Media Spy 
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Terrible terrible display yet again! Charlie of course the usual PC garbage ruining the family-friendly event. Harry Connick Jnr sounded dreadful and clearly didn’t want to be there and constant references to indigenous culture rammed down our throats again!!!
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You may be joking but are you wrong? Isn’t it like that every year? You literally just described the show. Except this year there’s an actual name performer that people know.
Oh, dear. Here we go again.
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