One special missing this time was Carson Daly's on NBC --
Because NYE was a Sunday, NBC had an agreement with the NFL to run a usual Sunday Night game, but then
the league decided only a couple weeks ago to have all games on the weekend be played in daytime, leaving prime time and late night
free for them to do whatever they wanted...
Daly says he approached the network around Christmas to see if they'd let him pull together his show at the last minute,
but they nixed the idea, saying there wasn't enough time to gather performers worth the effort, secure space in Times Square that had
already been claimed by others, etc. So NBC just ran repeats of Dateline and The Wall.
His show should return next New Year's eve.
https://cartermatt.com/282810/where-is- ... -2018-nbc/.