New Year's Eve, New Year's Rockin' Eve
We’re not going to even pretend that there was that much of a battle between New Year’s Eve broadcasts on network TV last night, mostly because it is a slaughter year in and yet out. The big winner was of course “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve,” which according to Deadline, drew a boffo 7.5 rating in […]
There was some breaking news that came out of the 2016 Rose Parade on New Year’s Day, but this was a twist that the event’s broadcast partners chose to not really address during the show itself. As a matter of fact, we were not even made aware of a certain message in the sky until […]
Yes, the annual Rose Parade in Pasadena is a fun New Year’s tradition for those out there who are sober enough from the night before to watch. It’s beautiful, it’s scenic, and if you live somewhere that has a mountain of snow on the ground, it makes you really jealous of California. For ABC, it’s […]
The sixth and final season of “Downton Abbey” is premiering on PBS Sunday night, and clearly the network and its Masterpiece arm wanted to go through all the stops in order to properly promote it. How else do you explain a float created specifically for this purpose? Having promotional floats at the Rose Parade is […]
New Year's Eve, New Year's Rockin' Eve
There are many traditions that take place during New Year’s Eve, but few of them are consistent so far as music goes. One of the biggest ones, though, is a performance of the classic John Lennon song “Imagine.” Every year it is performed by a different artist, and this time around it is none other […]
New Year's Eve, New Year's Rockin' Eve
In the years that we have been covering various New Year’s Eve festivities here at CarterMatt, one question has always reigned supreme: Who will Jenny McCarthy kiss at midnight? For quite some time on “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve,” McCarthy did her best to hype this up as a mystery, and there were even polls at […]
While the majority of the CNN – New Year’s Eve broadcast is stuffed full of hilarity (Don Lemon trying to throw beads at people in New Orleans, a giant Hershey kiss in Pennsylvania), we still knew that there would be at least one moment that people would be talking about for the next couple of […]
Here is just how famous Taylor Swift has become thanks to her many musical accomplishments: She can actually debut a new music video on primetime network TV. Just think about the wide array of networks that used to play videos that don’t anymore, and how almost all of the traffic of them has migrated to […]
Come the start of New Year’s Day, a tradition will be turning up in the annual Tournament of Roses Parade a.k.a. the Rose Parade. Multiple networks including ABC and NBC, plus many others around the world, are airing the festivities from Pasadena, California. The Parade is a precursor to the annual Rose Bowl, and it […]
New Year's Eve, New Year's Rockin' Eve
There are many notable moments that are taking place on “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest” this year, but one of the most entertaining parts of it for many of course come via the musical performances … even the pre-taped ones. It has been beyond a doubt a great year for 5 […]
