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CHRISTMAS TREE 2009
10.16.09
Rockefeller Christmas Tree Lighting Info
The 2009 Rockefeller Center Christmas tree will be
lit for the first time this holiday season on Wednesday, December 2, 2009, with
performances from 7:00pm-9:00pm. The two-hour long program features various
celebrity appearances and a star-studded musical lineup. The tree will be lit
daily from 5:30 A.M.-11:30 P.M.; all day on Christmas (24 hours); and from 5:30
A.M.-9 P.M. on New Year's Eve. The world's most famous Tree will be on display
until January 7th, 2010.
CHRISTMAS TREE 2008
Lighting of the Rockefeller Christmas Tree
NBC 12/03
Wednesday,
December 3 8/7c
NBC
heralds the arrival of the holidays with a dazzling display of musical talent
and the lighting of the world's most famous Christmas tree during the 11th
annual "Christmas in Rockefeller Center" telecast. Hosted by Al Roker ("Today"),
the star-studded 76th annual tree lighting extravaganza will feature superstars
such as Jamie Foxx, Stephen Colbert, Miley Cyrus, Beyoncé, Tony Bennett, Neil
Boyd, Jonas Brothers, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy, Harry Connick Jr., David
Cook, Rosie O'Donnell and The Broadway Kids, Faith Hill, Rascal Flatts, and
Solange Knowles performing current hits and holiday classics from Rockefeller
Center in New York City. Prior to the network special, WNBC NBC's New York
flagship station, will broadcast an additional live hour of the special (7-8
p.m. ET).
11.18.08
--Rockefeller Christmas Tree to Get Giant Crystal Star
--NYC Christmas Tree Related Stories
11.12.08
--NBC announces stars for Christmas tree telecast
--Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Chosen
CHRISTMAS
TREE 2007
Rockefeller
Christmas Tree Arrives In Manhattan
NEW
YORK --
If
the chilly weather isn't enough of a clue, Friday brings another sign the
holiday season is fast approaching.
Rockefeller
Center 's Christmas tree is in Manhattan and it's due to be set in its place
later Friday morning, with the help of a crane.
NBC
weatherman Al Roker rode the tree into Rockefeller Center during the Today Show
on Friday morning.
The
84-foot-tall tree measures 48 feet around. It comes from Joe and Judy Rivnyak's
yard in Shelton , Connecticut .
The
tree-lighting ceremony is planned for November 28.
CHRISTMAS
TREE 2006
Christmas
Tree Arrives At Rockefeller Center
POSTED:
9:41 am EST November 9, 2006
HARTFORD,
Conn. -- An 88-foot Norway spruce from a western
Connecticut home arrived in Manhattan Friday to become this year's Rockefeller
Center Christmas tree.
"It
is hugely exciting and it's huge news in the neighborhood," said Rob
Kinnaird, 58, an antique car restorer who remembers watching the tree grow
outside his window as a child in Ridgefield, a community of about 22,000 people
70 miles southwest of Hartford.
The
Kinnairds even moved the driveway four times over the years to accommodate the
growing branches.
"I
have pictures of my mom holding me out by the tree," said Kinnaird, adding
that a stint at Rockefeller Center will be a perfect end for the tree.
The
9-ton tree is 45 feet in diameter. It was hauled on a flatbed truck to
Manhattan, where workers will start putting it up at Rockefeller Plaza on
Friday.
Helicopters
are used to scout for New York City's most famous Christmas decoration.
Characteristics such as width, tree density and height, which must be at least
75 feet, are used to make the final selection.
Connecticut
has had its share of trees at Rockefeller Center. In 1999, a 100-foot Norway
spruce, the largest in the center's history, was plucked from the yard of a
Killingworth couple. And in 2003, a 79-foot-Norway spruce in Manchester was cut
down for the big holiday celebration.
The
tree will be decorated with at more than 30,000 lights and topped with a
Swarovski crystal star.
It
will be lighted during a ceremony Nov. 29. The two-hour event will be broadcast
nationally on NBC. The tree will remain in place until Jan. 8, continuing an
annual tradition that started in 1933.
CHRISTMAS
TREE 2005
Updates
From www.wnbc.com
POSTED:
November 10, 2005
Rockefeller
Center Christmas Tree Raised
The
Rockefeller Center Christmas tree was driven onto 30 Rockefeller Plaza
Thursday morning and lifted into place.
POSTED:
7:37 am EST November 9, 2005
Rockefeller
Center Christmas Tree
To Be
Chopped Down In N.J.
A
74-foot-tall Norway spruce from Wayne, N.J., will be this year's Rockefeller
Center Christmas tree, organizers announced early Wednesday.
The
tree, which weighs nine tons and has a 42-foot wing span, is scheduled for
chopping at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday.
It
will then be loaded onto a 115-foot-long trailer and transported to Manhattan.
The tree, Rockefeller Center's 73rd, will be hoisted into place next to the ice
skating rink at Rockefeller Center on Thursday morning.
Last
year's tree, a 71-foot-tall Norway spruce, was found on the property of a
Suffern, N.Y., family.
The
first Rockefeller Center tree was put up in 1931 by workers helping to build the
complex, and the first formal tree-lighting ceremony took place in 1933.
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