Satnews Daily
December 21st, 2011

Times Square Alliance... Bring In 2012 Via Satellite...


[SatNews] The Times Square Alliance and Countdown Entertainment are once again offering free satellite feeds....

....of the New Year’s Eve Celebration in Times Square, New York. The clean, uninterrupted feeds are available free of charge to domestic and international television outlets. Satellite coordinate/feed information is available online: http://www.timessquarenyc.org/events/new-years-eve/for-mediapress/technical-info/index.aspx.

For the third year now, the event organizers have partnered with Livestream to offer an international, six and a half hour webcast of the event.  Three co-hosts will cover all of the action in Times Square, including the hourly countdowns, ball raising ceremony, stage performances and special guests.  The free, non-commercial widget will be offered of varying sizes for bloggers, webmasters and digital media outlets to embed in their own sites featuring the Livestream video player and related social media tools.  The widget can also be embedded on a Facebook profile page:  http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=212343405509387&sk=app_212343405509387.