I have a fondness for "live remote" broadcasts on New Year's Eve. Way
back in my teen years, I used to listen to the NBC network in the USA,
which continued a tradition established back in the 1930s with an "All
Star Cavalcade of Bands" every year. Later on, NPR picked up the
tradition. Until a few years ago, "Toast of the Nation" was mostly live,
but now it's all canned. Here's information about what they have planned
for this year. Actual broadcast times will depend on individual
stations.

https://www.npr.org/2019/12/26/787762117/toast-of-the-nation-2020-the-jazz-collective-edition

KSDS in San Diego had a live jazz show to welcome the new year for a few
years, but it probably proved to be unsustainable. I don't see any
evidence of it for this year.

WRTI in Philadelphia is the only station I've found with an actual live
broadcast at midnight (US Eastern time):

https://www.wrti.org/post/spend-your-new-years-eve-and-day-wrti-special-live-broadcasts

I find plenty of examples of disk jockey shows for New Year's Eve, and
I'm sure some are very good, but that's not what I'm looking for.

For better or worse, the best source I've found for a live feed of
music, specifically jazz, appears to be Smalls, a club in New York.
Registration is required, but live streaming is free:

https://www.smallslive.com

Sorry, these few are all I have to offer, and they're all very
USA-centric. I hope others can add more suggestions, and some for the
rest of the planet.

I also like to track the progress of the New Year around the globe. As
I'm writing this, it's less than ten hours away in New Zealand, but I'm
not going to try to catch that. There was some discussion about this in
a thread I started about this time last year:

https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?109963-Where-to-hear-Big-Ben-ring-in-the-New-Year

Any suggestions for additional places to hear local countdowns would be
welcome, too.



LMS (recent) running on Debian X86_64; 5 Squeezelite players (3 in
PiCorePlayer), 3 players connected via Airplay Bridge
1 Squeezebox Radio (upgraded UE Smart Radio) now mostly retired
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