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Feliz! is an annual television special that airs every New Year's Eve on Univision, In every edition, the show has musical guests, special celebrity appearances, and as always, the sixty second countdown to the next year and as the show progresses, more cities joined in on the festivities in addition to Times Square and Miami, including San Juan and Acapulco ¡Feliz 2006!, San Juan and Mexico City ¡Feliz 2010!, Anaheim ¡Feliz 2011!, Orlando ¡Feliz 2015!, San Antonio and Las Vegas ¡Feliz 2017!.

History

The Spanish-language networks also joined in on the celebration. SIN/Univision's coverage of the event is called ¡Feliz (Year Number)! hosted by Don Francisco from Sábado Gigante. It became the biggest New Year's Eve program on the network since its original run and it currently airs at 10:00pm since 1986. For ¡Feliz 2006!, the show starts after Sábado Gigante at a special time of 7:00pm instead of the original 8:00pm time slot to finish 2005. ¡Feliz 2009! only covers the New York City at EST portion of the program. For the first time, Univision Communications would broadcast live from Disneyland Resort for ¡Feliz 2011!. ¡Feliz 2017! was on air for 12 hours, from 3:00pm to 3:00am to finish 2016, including Los Angeles; Hong Kong; Dubai; Baghdad; Cairo; Moscow; Berlin; London; and Rio de Janeiro.

Pitbull participated in the 2018 edition, after his own Pitbull's New Year's Revolution special for Fox was cancelled.

For the 2022 edition, TelevisaUnivision have decided to not broadcast from Times Square and instead host an indoor event from their studios in Miami due to unknown reasons, but they would return to Times Square for the 2023 edition.

Years

The Eastern/Central feed is broadcast live while the Mountain/Pacific feed is tape-delayed.

References

1. Petski, Denise (2017-12-27). "Pitbull To Join Univision's New Year's Eve Celebration '¡Feliz 2018!'". Deadline. Retrieved 2017-12-28.
2. "Univision Network Rings in the New Year with a Live Coast-to-Coast 12-Hour Special "¡Feliz 2017!"". 27 December 2016.
3. "Pitbull will Join Univision's New Year's Celebration Live from Miami". 27 December 2017.
4. "Univision Ends the Year on a High Note with Christmas Eve Special and Live New Year Coast-to-Coast Telecast". 20 December 2018.
5. "Univision Rings in a New Decade with "¡Feliz 2020!" Live Telecast". 19 December 2019.
6. "Univision Ends the Year with a Special Programming Slate Full of Love, Music and Traditions". 15 December 2020.
7. "Univision's New Year's Eve Special Programming Celebrates Love, Music, and Culture". 20 December 2021.
8. "New Year's Eve TV: All the ways you can watch the ball drop". Entertainment Weekly. 29 December 2022.

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