{"id":15438,"date":"2017-09-11T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=15438"},"modified":"2017-09-11T06:03:43","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T11:03:43","slug":"nbc-5-still-date-new-years-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2017\/09\/11\/nbc-5-still-date-new-years-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC 5 still has a date for New Year\u2019s Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Chi-Town Rising (2017)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Chi-Town Rising,\" <\/a>Chicago\u2019s answer to New York\u2019s Times Square celebration on New Year\u2019s Eve, won\u2019t be back this year. But that isn\u2019t going to stop NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5<\/a> from ringing in 2018 anyway.<\/p>\n

Arena Partners,<\/a> organizers and promoters of the first two outdoor parties, did not cite a reason for pulling the plug<\/a>, but sources said the \"Chi-Town Rising\" events in 2016 and 2017 were not profitable.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, NBC 5, which broadcast the first two \"Chi-Town Rising\" spectacles with Telemundo Chicago WSNS-Channel 44<\/a> and on numerous stations throughout the country, says the show must go on. A station representative confirmed that a live New Year\u2019s Eve special will air again this year. No details were available.<\/p>\n

For viewers, that means there will be local competition once more for ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7, <\/a>which has been airing its own \u201cCountdown Chicago,\u201d hosted by Janet Davies and Mark Giangreco, for more than 25 years.<\/p>\n

John Murray, founder of Arena Partners and executive producer of \u201cChi-Town Rising,\u201d once hoped to make the event an iconic, annual tradition. The 75-foot star that ascended at midnight over the Chicago River on the Hyatt Regency Chicago \u2014 billed as \u201cthe biggest New Year\u2019s Eve icon in the world\u201d \u2014 has been mothballed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"Chi-Town Rising,\" Chicago\u2019s answer to New York\u2019s Times Square celebration on New Year\u2019s Eve, won\u2019t be back this year. But that isn\u2019t going to stop NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5 from ringing in 2018 anyway. Arena Partners, organizers and promoters of the first two outdoor parties, did not cite a reason for pulling the plug, but sources... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15438"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15447,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15438\/revisions\/15447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}