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REVIEW
New Years Eve America Show is a $5.99 channel that runs once a year.
A patriotic pyromusical loop themed around America's 250th, charged as a paid app on a platform where the same developer gives away comparable countdown channels for free.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 10, 2026 · 2 MIN READ
New Years Eve America Show
STORM JAM LLC
OUR SCORE
4.6
ROKU
★ 5.0
PRICE
$5.99
Roku’s channel store has a quiet sub-genre of seasonal one-shots: fireplaces in December, fireworks in July, countdown loops in late December. Most of them are free, ad-supported, and forgotten by the second week of January. New Years Eve America Show is the same shape, except Storm Jam has put a $5.99 sticker on it and wrapped it in 250th-anniversary patriotic framing.
The footage is real, the cuts are clean, the music is on-tempo. As a thirty-minute backdrop for a New Year’s Eve room, it works. The trouble is that the same developer gives away functionally similar countdown channels for free in the same store, and this one omits the single feature — a synced clock — that would justify a charge.
Six dollars is the price of a streaming month. This is a fireworks screensaver with a flag draped over it.
It is a fireworks screensaver with a flag draped over it, billed at the price of a streaming month.
FEATURES
The channel plays a looped reel of professionally shot pyromusical fireworks set to patriotic and classic New Year's Eve cues, building to a finale themed around the United States' 250th anniversary. There is no live broadcast, no countdown clock synced to your time zone, and no interactive element beyond starting playback.
Storm Jam ships it as a paid Roku channel at $5.99 — a one-time purchase rather than a subscription. It installs through the regular Roku channel store, sits on your home grid like any other tile, and plays back at whatever resolution your Roku model and TV negotiate. There is no companion app, no second-screen interaction, no schedule.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
As ambient party content for the half hour before midnight on December 31st, it does the job. The footage is real fireworks rather than rendered animation, the audio mix is clean enough to push through a soundbar, and it loops without an obvious seam — useful when you want a TV to be doing something visual behind a room full of people.
Crediting the show as a tribute to the country's 250th gives it a single-year hook the catalogue's evergreen countdown channels can't claim, and the pyromusical structure (synced detonations, not wallpaper) is genuinely better than the static fireplace-style loops the same store sells alongside it.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
The pricing is the problem. Storm Jam itself publishes free New Year's Eve countdown channels in the same Roku store — including a 2025-dated one — that cover most of the same use case without asking for a card. Charging $5.99 for a once-a-year loop with no live element, no countdown overlay, and no replay value past January 1st is a hard sell.
There's also nothing here that earns a second viewing. Without a synced clock, the channel doesn't actually take you into midnight; you're watching fireworks while the Roku clock on a different input does the real countdown. For a paid app, that omission is the whole gap between novelty and utility.
CONCLUSION
Buy it only if the 250th-anniversary framing matters to you specifically and you want themed pyro on the TV for one party. Everyone else should install Storm Jam's free countdown channels instead, or queue a YouTube fireworks loop on the Roku Channel and save the six dollars. Worth revisiting next year only if the developer adds a live countdown overlay.