Not in NYC for the New Year's Eve 2006 Ball Drop in Times Square...along w/a million of Your Closest Pals? MSN Video Has 26 Cameras & Multiple Streams Beaming 6 Hours of Live Action. Just Crack the Bubbly & Log On in Comfort. FASHIONTRIBES BLOG & PODCAST

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The next best thing to being there - and possibly better, given a) you get to forgo the fight to stake out your spot starting early in the morning; b) the freezing weather; c) the fact you're standing around with at least a million others - is watching it from the comfort of your couch. “For the second year running, we’re giving New Year’s revelers around the world a unique view of Times Square,” said Rob Bennett, product unit manager for MSN® Video, TV and Movies, which will be covering the official doings on 42nd Street at MSN.com/NewYears. “Last year viewers spent 45 minutes on average watching the celebration on MSN Video and this year we are making it even more interactive by giving consumers the opportunity to choose the camera angles and the events to focus on, instantly shaping their New Year’s Eve experience.”

(Photo from Times Square Alliance*)

Adds Steve Sterling, executive producer of the MSN Video Times Square New Year’s Eve Celebration: "We are very excited to be producing this one-of-a-kind view of the ultimate New Year’s Eve experience live from Times Square, the most historic and thrilling place to ring in the New Year. This webcast clearly provides a broader, more extensive New Year’s Eve Times Square program than any other medium can offer. We can’t wait for webcast viewers to see New Year’s Eve their way on MSN Video.”

Three popular co-hosts will positioned throughout Times Square for the best coverage of the festivities, which will provide live commentary & even help you create your own New Year's Eve Program:

• Romeo Host of Romeo on the Radio on New York’s No. 1 radio station, Z100
•    Angela LaGreca Award-winning comedian from ABC's popular show The View
• Brandi Williams Entertainment reporter and host of Ultimate Poker Challenge

Starting 7 pm NY time (4 in Cali) at MSN.com/NewYears, the multi-stream, multi-camera broadcast will cover 6 hours of:

• the performances & celebrations happening in and around Times Square
• exclusive online entertainment appearances
• an all-access backstage pass to Little Steven’s Underground Garage Live at the Hard Rock Café, where Steven Van Zandt (“The Sopranos,” Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, Sirius Satellite Radio’s “Little Steven’s Underground Garage”) will perform.
• live performances by The Woggles, The Charms, The Chesterfield Kings, The Troggs, The Mooney Suzuki and The New York Dolls
• flashbacks of 2005
• your two cents - email in your comments or questions about the evening’s performances and celebrations and well-wishes for the coming year, which will be interspersed with coverage of the New Year’s Eve countdown, ball drop, Times Square festivities and general crowd frenzy

MSN.com/NewYears

*The Times Square Alliance, TimesSquareNYC.org, and Countdown Entertainment - which represents One Times Square and the New Year's Eve Ball - are working to save the energy, edge & distinctiveness that have made Times Square a cultural & urban icon.

- Lesley Scott

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