Merry holidays, everybody! Some say Christmas festivities start the day after Thanksgiving, however the fact is, not a single “Ho, Ho, Ho” needs to be muttered earlier than America’s best Christmas custom: the annual lighting of the tree in New York Metropolis’s Rockefeller Heart. The tree for 2020 is a 75-foot tall Norway Spruce, which housed a minimum of one owl (who was safely released again into the wild, however oh the tales she’s going to be capable to inform her associates!).
After all, issues will look a little bit totally different this 12 months for the reason that coronavirus is placing coal in our stockings. There might be no public attendance on the occasion — which is happening 12 months 88! — however it’s going to nonetheless air on NBC as a part of the official yearly gala, Christmas in Rockefeller Center. NBC’s Right this moment anchors — Hoda Kotb, Savannah Guthrie, Al Roker, and Craig Melvin — would be the official emcees for the night with performances from artists like Kelly Clarkson, Goo Goo Dolls, Jimmy Fallon, and extra.
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The published will air stay on the East Coast on Wednesday, Dec. 2 at 8/7c on NBC, however in the event you’re seeking to simply tune in for the precise lighting, it is slated to happen round 9/8c, in the course of the printed. For all you West Coast of us, the present might be tape-delayed and aired once more at Eight PT.
In case you’re a cord-cutter who thinks stay TV is for dummies, you may tune in on-line by way of NBC Stay and the NBC App.
Time: Wednesday, Dec. 2, 8-10 p.m. ET/PT.
Channel: NBC
Stream On-line: NBC Live or the NBC App
Rockefeller Christmas Tree Lighting