New Year's Eve Live On CNN: How To Watch Anderson Cooper And Andy Cohen's Countdown Online

It's time to raise a glass to 2025 with your favorite giggly New Year's Eve correspondents. Here's everything you need to know for watching CNN's New Year's Eve Live With Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen online.

New Year's Eve Live With Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen airs at 8/7c on Tuesday, Dec. 31 on CNN. If you don't have cable, you'll just need to subscribe to a live-TV streaming service that includes CNN to watch the Anderson Cooper-led New Year's Eve event. Or, opt for a Max subscription to get CNN Max, which offers some of the same content as its linear channel, including New Year's Eve Live, with the addition of exclusive programming.

If you want to watch Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen's New Year's Eve special online for free, you just need to find a platform that offers free trials. Below we've outlined all of the ways to watch CNN online and outlined which live-TV streaming services offer free trial periods.

Max

Max will be livestreaming New Year's Eve Live and subscriptions go for just $9.99/month. If you're hoping to catch the New Year's Eve countdown online, we recommend signing up for Max as it's easy to use, offers tons of original content and cost-effective.

Sling Orange

Sling TV is one of the most affordable cord-cutting options for accessing CNN to watch Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen ring in the new year. The service offers three subscriptions with different channel lineups. We recommend the Sling Orange plan for $40/month, since it's cost-effective and includes CNN — but every Sling plan offers the channel. With Sling, you can't watch New Year's Eve Live for free since there's no free trial period. But if you act fast, you can watch the ball drop for just $20 because the service is offering new users half off their first month! In terms of live-TV streaming services, this is the cheapest way to watch Anderson Cooper's New Year's Eve countdown without cable.

DirecTV Stream offers a five-day free trial and a few different subscription options for a variety of prices so you can choose whichever fits your budget. The Choice package is the most popular and offers CNN in addition to over 100 other channels for $108.99/month, but right now they're offering a major discount: New customers can get the Choice plan for just $69.99/month for your first three months. With no annual contract what's not to love about watching New Year's Eve Live With Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen for free with DirecTV Stream?

DirecTV Stream

The Hulu + Live TV subscription is a more expensive option for watching CNN's New Year's Eve coverage without cable, ringing in at $82.99/month. With that being said, you get a lot of content with this bundle subscription. You gain access to the Hulu streaming library, CNN as well as ESPN Plus and Disney Plus. This is a comprehensive packing for addressing all you cord-cutter needs.

Stream CNN on Hulu + Live TV

As stated above, CNN's New Year's Eve coverage begins at 8/7c on Tuesday, Dec. 31 and airs on CNN. The event will livestream on Max. But CNN will begin ringing in the new year as early as 7 am ET, as correspondents deliver live reports from cities around the world. Full international coverage then begins at 2:45 pmET.

CNN's New Year's Eve performers include: Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, Sting, Meghan Trainor, Shania Twain, Diplo, Lil Jon, Mickey Guyton and Patti LaBelle. Comedians Whitney Cummings, Amy Sedaris, Sasheer Zamata, Ziwe, Adam Devine and more will also make appearances.

CNN's Anderson Cooper and Watch What Happens Live's Andy Cohen are returning as co-hosts of New Year's Eve Live. The pair is known for their boozy, meme-worthy on-air antics — and yes, they will be allowed to drink on-air this year!

At 12:30 am ET, CNN's Sara Sidner, Harry Enten and Cari Champion will begin leading coverage as the Central Time Zone approaches the new year. Meanwhile, earlier in the day at 2:45 pm ET, Laura Coates will anchor international coverage from London, joined by Boris Sanchez in Paris.