Choose your platform and ring in the New Year comfy at home as you watch the 135th Rose Parade and the 110th Rose Bowl Game.
Set your alarm for kickoff at 8 a.m. Monday, Jan. 1 PST and if television is your medium of choice, tune in to ABC, KTLA 5, NBC, Univision, the Cowboy and Cowgirl Channels, and Great American Family, available through major cable providers. The pay channel RFD-TV, or Rural Free Delivery will also provide live coverage.
KTLA’s programming starts at 6 a.m. with hosts Leeza Gibbons and Mark Steines while over on NBC, Al Roker and Hoda Kotb will lead the telecast. ESPN produces ABC’s Rose Parade telecast, so ESPN “SportsCenter” anchors Hannah Storm and Kevin Negandhi will handle the New Year’s Day honors for that network.
Check your local listings for more information.
There are several streaming options but some require a cable/satellite subscription. Or you can stream the Rose Parade via live TV streaming services such as Hulu, SlingTV, DirectTV Stream or FuboTV.
More than 50 million catch the New Year’s Day pageantry from more than 170 countries, according to Tournament officials. Nothing beats seeing all the magic in person, of course, and more than 700,000 spectators descend on Pasadena to take in the holiday display each year.
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The 110th Rose Bowl Game following the parade will be broadcast at 1 p.m. PST only on ESPN. No. 1 University of Michigan’s Wolverine face off against No. 4 University of Alabama’s Crimson Tides. The ESPN TV and ESPN Radio crews calling the College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Rose Bowl Game are Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit, Holly Rowe and Laura Rutledge on TV and Joe Tessitore, Dusty Dvoracek and Quint Kessenich on radio.
Stream the game on ESPN.com or the ESPN app, DirectTV Stream, Disney+, ESPN+, FuboTV, Hulu + Live TV, Sling TV or YouTube TV.
Last year, attendance at the Rose Bowl was pegged at 94,873 while 10.2 million viewers watched the broadcast of the Granddaddy of Them All, according to ESPN.
Internationally, the Rose Parade will broadcast live in Armenia, the Caribbean, Latin America and on the American Forces Network.
Source: Orange County Register
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