Watch Livestream’s Commercial-Free Broadcast Of NYE In Times Square

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Saturday, December 31st, 2011

At home and want to watch the classic New Years Eve celebration in Time Square commercial free? Well, here you go. Livestream has partnered with the organizers of the Times Square New Year’s Eve Celebration to bring you just that: A six-and-a-half hour commercial free webcast of the evening’s festivities. The livecast will include a bunch of musical guest, like the Biebs, Lady Gaga, Cee Lo, the Ball Drop, a midnight celebration, etc. You can check out the full schedule here.

Livestream, The Times Square Alliance, and Countdown Entertainment are also offering free widgets of varying sizes for bloggers, webmasters, and digital media outlets, which you can find here.

Enjoy. And Happy New Years from TechCrunch. Here’s to a healthy and happy 2012. Be safe, and don’t have too much fun.

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Company: Livestream
Website: livestream.com
Launch Date: May 1, 2007
Funding: $12.7M

Livestream’s mission is to connect people and live events. Livestream offers event owners a complete set of hardware and software tools to share their events with a growing community online. More than 30 million viewers each month watch thousands of live events from customers including The New York Times, Facebook, ESPN, SpaceX and Warner Bros. Records. Founded in 2007, Livestream is headquartered in New York with offices in Los Angeles, Ukraine and India. http://www.livestream.com.

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