Networks and cable television rolled out slightly different editions of their annual New Year's Eve celebrations in 2020. Amid the novel coronavirus pandemic,ABC, NBC, Fox and CNN aired from a strangely empty Times Square in New York, which was closed to the public amid the COVID-19 pandemic, as hosts generally expressed eagerness to say goodbye to 2020.
CNN’s New Year’s EveLiveco-hostsAnderson Cooper and Andy Cohen pointed out that the few attendees allowed as revelers inside Times Square were essential workers, who were separated from each other by small barriers called "party pods." "In an empty Times Square tonight, here are heroes of 2020," Cooper said at the beginning of the program. (He and Cohen also noted that Planet Fitness had.