CBS<\/a> faced a technical snafu that knocked the live broadcast of \u201cNew Year\u2019s Eve Live: Nashville\u2019s Big Bash\u201d off the air for about 12 minutes on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n\n\tIn the interim the network ran an episode of \u201cMatlock,\u201d an abrupt shift that greatly confused viewers who had tuned in for a selection of country music superstars performing from Nashville and other locations in the lead-up to midnight. The interruption came about 50 minutes in to the five and a half hour special.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe circumstances behind the technical problems were not entirely clear. <\/p>\n
\n\tAt about 8:50 p.m. PT, singer-actor Lainey Wilson was in the middle of a tune when suddenly it was interrupted. Soon thereafter a voice mentioned \u201ctechnical difficulties,\u201d and after that CBS cut to a string of commercials. Those were followed by an episode of \u201cMatlock\u201d that appeared to start in progress. Finally, after about 12 and a half minutes, hosts Bert Kreischer and country singer Hardy came back on and apologized for the interruption. Singer Gretchen Wilson then took the stage.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe event is staged at Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park in Nashville. The 2025 telecast featured appearances by such country notables as Jason Aldean, Bailey Zimmerman, CeCe Winans and the Fisk Jubilee Singers, Dierks Bentley, Brooks & Dunn, Rascal Flatts, Riley Green, Marcus King, Megan Moroney, Zach Top, Keith Urban and Stephen Wilson Jr.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cNashville\u2019s Big Bash\u201d is executive produced by Robert Deaton and Mary Hilliard Harrington in partnership with Music City Inc., the foundation of the Nashville Convention & Visitors Corp. <\/p>\n
\n\t(Pictured: Lainey Wilson performs at the Nashville\u2019s Big Bash<\/em> event telecast live on CBS)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source variety.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS faced a technical snafu that knocked the live broadcast of \u201cNew Year\u2019s Eve Live: Nashville\u2019s Big Bash\u201d off the air for about 12 minutes on Wednesday night. In the interim the network ran an episode of \u201cMatlock,\u201d an abrupt shift that greatly confused viewers who had tuned in for a selection of country music […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2218662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[22405,428403],"class_list":["post-2218661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-cbs","tag-nashvilles-big-bash"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Nashvilles-Big-Bash-Live-Telecast-Interrupted-by-Technical-Problems.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2218661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2218663,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218661\/revisions\/2218663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2218662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2218661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2218661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2218661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}