From 1991 to 2020, the Fox television network aired New Year's Eve specials with various hosts and formats. Many of these specials featured music performances by popular musicians, and coverage of the Times Square ball drop in New York City, although some deviated from this format by focusing on festivities in other cities (such as Las Vegas and Miami).
The first special, Fox New Year's Eve Live, aired from December 1991 to 1993, with a similar format used for 1994–95. From December 1995 to 1998, Fox broadcast its New Year's specials from Las Vegas; the 1996–97 special notably covered the demolition of the former Hacienda resort, which was scheduled for midnight ET. From 1999 to 2002, Fox aired specials with tie-ins for the Billboard Music Awards and coverage from Times Square, taking a hiatus in 2000 for millennium coverage hosted by Fox News personalities Brit Hume and Paula Zahn.
For 2002–03 and 2003–04, Fox broadcast America's Party: Live from Las Vegas, which was hosted by Ryan Seacrest from The Venetian. The special moved to New York City for 2004–05 as New Year's Eve: Live from Times Square, with Seacrest remaining as host. After Seacrest began co-hosting its competitor New Year's Rockin' Eve on ABC, the special was renamed New Year's Eve Live for 2005–06, with Regis Philbin as host. The next two editions of New Year's Eve Live were hosted by Cat Deeley, after which the special moved back to Las Vegas with a rotation of different hosts each year.
Beginning in 2014–15, Fox replaced New Year's Eve Live with Pitbull's New Year's Revolution, which featured concerts headlined by rapper Pitbull from Miami's Bayfront Park. For 2017–18, Fox returned to a Times Square-based special, this time hosted by comedian and television personality Steve Harvey. This format lasted until 2020–21, when Fox aired New Year's Eve Toast & Roast, which was hosted by comedians Ken Jeong and Joel McHale from Los Angeles, with Kelly Osbourne as a correspondent in Times Square. While Fox intended to retain the format for 2021–22, the special was canceled and replaced with reruns due to COVID-19 concerns in New York City, and Fox has quietly forewent any coverage on broadcast television since.
Fox's sister cable news network Fox News Channel broadcasts its own New Year's Eve special, All-American New Year, which features coverage of festivities in Times Square and other locations, and primarily competes with CNN's New Year's Eve Live with Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen.[1][2] The 2021–22 edition was hosted by Will Cain, Rachel Campos-Duffy, and Pete Hegseth of Fox & Friends Weekend from the Wildhorse Saloon in Nashville.[3][4] Fox Television Stations' streaming news channel LiveNow has also streamed raw coverage of celebrations from different U.S. cities.[5]