{"id":212116,"date":"2026-01-01T21:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T21:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/212116\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T21:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T21:06:14","slug":"thousands-welcome-2026-at-fm96-big-night-out-at-albert-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/212116\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands welcome 2026 at FM96 Big Night Out at Albert Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people turned up with their families and friends to welcome 2026 at the FM96 Big Night Out with Vodafone at Albert Park.<\/p>\n<p>The crowd enjoyed the music and danced their hearts out as they celebrated the New Year.<\/p>\n<p>Families sat on their mats with their grog, while their children enjoyed the bouncy castle and others had the chance to win prizes.<\/p>\n<p>People also enjoyed different cuisines from the food stalls.<\/p>\n<p>There was also a fireworks display as the clock hit 12am.<\/p>\n<p>People travelled from different parts of the country to be part of the Big Night Out.<\/p>\n<p>The Khan family travelled all the way from Lautoka to enjoy the party, which they had been hearing about.<\/p>\n<p>The family says it is special for them to celebrate the New Year in a different way.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Communications Fiji Limited\u2019s General Manager, Charles Taylor says the FM96 Big Night Out has become an annual event.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor says the Vou Dance Group kept the crowd entertained with their amazing moves to the best hits.<\/p>\n<p>He also remembered those team members who passed away this year.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor\u2019s message for the coming year is for everyone to move forward with a positive attitude.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the number one song for 2025 on FM96 is &#8216;Man I Need&#8217; by Olivia Dean.<\/p>\n<p>The fijivillage News Team wishes everyone a blessed, happy and prosperous New Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of people turned up with their families and friends to welcome 2026 at the FM96 Big Night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,128746,157,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-212116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-feature-fm96-big-night-out-photo-video","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}