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The 2025/26 New Year's Eve Rock Countdown You May Have Never Heard Of
You certainly know about Wednesday night's Dick Clark New Year's Rockin' Eve from Times Square on ABC in New York, an annual holiday tradition. And there's a country special from Nashville airing that same night on CBS. CHCH has its own countdown ready to go, in partnership with CHEK-TV in Victoria. And the CBC will be ringing in the New Year from various places, including Ottawa.
But what about "The Coast-to-Coast Countdown?" It's a New Year's Eve show for rock fans that will be on the Nexstar-owned stations in the U.S. and it features some legendary music stars. Among them: Styx, Foreigner, UB40, and others. It's a four hour long broadcast that begins at 11 PM Wednesday night, and emanates from a host of different cities.
If you can get WNLO from Buffalo over your antenna or WPIX from New York City on cable, you can watch it. Producers stress it's not a four hour concert but an ongoing show where the bands will play at different times.
If you're planning on watching 2026 come in on TV, it's one more option.
How to Watch Styx, Foreigner and More Perform on New Year’s Eve ‘Coast-to-Coast Countdown 2026’
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Sorry, I have no time for these shows as most of the performances are lip-synced and/or heavily backing-tracked. I find it sad to see aging rockers faking their way through their once great music.
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It surprises me that Fox 29 isn't carrying this as an alternative to ABC's Dick Clark show.
I remember several years ago, Fox had Steve Harvey as a host to ring in the New Year.
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WUTV is owned by Sinclair. This show is being put on by Nexstar, which owns WNLO & WIVB. So they likely would never have had the rights to it.
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alangee wrote:
Sorry, I have no time for these shows as most of the performances are lip-synced and/or heavily backing-tracked. I find it sad to see aging rockers faking their way through their once great music.
I would tend to agree. Plus it is highly doubtful, I will even be awake at midnight to ring in 2026.
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I heard all the Classic Rock I wanted to in the 70s and 80s. Styx and Foreigner are still working bands that do not fake it. (Putting aside there are no original members in Foreigner of course. Mick Jones is a business man in rock garb, learning much from his close friend Ahmet Ertegun. There is something to his argument, from a business perspective anyways, that no one complains about new members in The Boston Symphony) And Tommy Shaw and Gowan, apart from the compositive elements arising more and more in live concerts, have enough self respect and talent to not stoop to boy-band level.
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Sorry, I have no time for these shows as most of the performances are lip-synced and/or heavily backing-tracked. I find it sad to see aging rockers faking their way through their once great music.
Maybe this will be a better way to rock in the New Year. Or rather, the Old Year.
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