This will be the ninth New Year’s Eve in a row that Kathy Griffin has broadcast live from the teeming crowds in New York’s Times Square with her CNN cohost Anderson Cooper, and she’s not about to have the party spoiled by the widespread jitters over recent terrorism attacks in Paris and San Bernardino.

“I’m just so used to being a target that I’m actually not one bit afraid,” Griffin joked in a phone interview. She then took a dig at her competing Times Square host on ABC’s “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve”: “If Ryan Seacrest can do it, I can do it.”

Over the last few years, New Year’s Eve has become one of the most competitive live-broadcast nights of the year, with multiple TV networks airing coverage of festivities in New York, Miami and elsewhere.

“With a million people in Times Square and tens of millions of people watching, it is about as big as it gets for a platform these days,” said Seacrest, who next year will wrap up a 15-year tenure as “American Idol” host.

But this year’s celebrations are tinged with wariness after recent terror attacks here and abroad. The Islamic militant group ISIS in November released a video that showed Times Square and other New York landmarks, which was widely construed as a barely veiled threat.

“Security comes into play every single year,” said Larry Klein, the veteran executive producer of “Rockin’ Eve.” “We did a show just 3 months after 9/11. Security always comes into play when you have a million people in the crowd.”

As far as the TV networks are concerned, the shows will go on. Plenty of people end up watching parties from home rather than attending one live, guaranteeing a surprisingly large television audience for a holiday night. It also helps that New Year’s Eve is not as family-oriented as Christmas or Thanksgiving and, thus, puts fewer competitive demands on viewers’ attention.