Airdate: New Year’s Eve 2016
Ella Hooper & Jeremy Fernandez will host ABC's NYE Fireworks event -plus something for the kids.
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Ella Hooper is returning to co-host ABC’s New Year’s Eve event at Sydney Harbour, to be joined by News 24 host Jeremy Fernandez.
Fireworks will be broadcast in HD for the first time on ABC, also streaming on iview and ABC TV Facebook.
Coverage begins at 8:35pm with a Welcome to Country followed by Play School’s Jemima and Little Lunch’s Debra Jo, Giggle & Hoot’s Jimmy Giggle and his sidekick Hoot. They will be joined by ABC ME’s Tim Matthews and Grace Koh live from Sydney Harbour, plus special guests including, Justine Clarke, The Wiggles, Dan Sultan and the Bananas in Pajamas.
At 9pm, the winner of ABC ME’s Design your own Firework competition, 10-year-old Georgia from Perth, will kick off the Family Fireworks display featuring her own firework design.
From the Lord Mayor’s Party at Bennelong Point Ella and Jeremy host until midnight. Highlights include the annual Pub Quiz, hosted by Lawrence Mooney with panelists and guests including Rhys Nicholson, Denise Scott, Miranda Tapsell, Peter Helliar, Anne Edmonds and Tom Tilley, plus specials from David Stratton, The Katering Show’s Kates and Sammy J.
There are Live crosses to The Falls Festival in Lorne, Victoria with performances by Bernard Fanning, Violent Soho, Broods, Catfish & The Bottlemen and Alison Wonderland
The Hoodoo Gurus will perform Live from the Lord Mayor’s party.
7:30pm: The Yearly (rpt)
8:35pm: New Year’s Eve 2016 commences
8:38pm: Welcome to Country
8:41pm: ABC Children’s NYE commences
9.00pm: Family Fireworks
9.16pm: Jeremy and Ella take us through until midnight with entertainment including The Pub Quiz, live crosses to the Falls Festival in Lorne and much more
11:44pm: Live cross to the Lord Mayor’s Party for The Hoodoo Gurus performance
12:00am Sydney Midnight Fireworks
Times subject to change.
10 Responses
This is a hiding to nothing. News Corp will alteady have started writing the articles slagging off the coverage…
Was Lawrence Mooney busy New Years Eve?????
He is hosting Pub Quiz which is pre-recorded. NYE is a big money earner for any talent making appearances in corporate, and not sure he wants to revisit after previous outing but you would need to ask him.
I was being very much tongue in cheek DK! I wouldn’t have thought Lawrence would want to revisit that and, as your say, NYE is a prime money earner corporately. I do enjoy the Pub Quiz, I’ll watch that. ABC’s coverage is generally pretty good, its easy viewing.
ABC HD is in MPEG-4. We’ve just lost a HD channel. I can’t believe TV stations are still putting new channels onto MPEG-4 after I publicly called for them to stop doing so on this blog.
Glad to see a VIP who knows how to go right to the top 😉
I wish they were all MPEG4. I’ve now said so on this blog, I guess we have ourselves a dilemma…..
But square eyes publicly called them to stop it. I think they win the argument.
No thank you, MPEG-4 is superior.
ABC 20 in Sydney is not full HD , false advertising !