Times Square joined them in 1979. The New Year's Eve ball drop can be watched from various channels. The Times Square Alliance has a live stream that begins at 6 pm, and stays up until midnight ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: The New Year's Eve ball drop started over 100 years ago. Based on a 19th-century maritime tradition, "time balls" were once dropped down poles in ...

The time-ball was dropped at 1pm daily so ship captains could set their chronometers. Arguably, today's most famous New Year's Eve ball drop is the 12-foot, 11,875-pound geodesic sphere that falls ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The dropping of the New Year's Eve ball in Times Square has been a tradition for over 100 years. We spoke with the agent for the ball itself, Jeffrey Straus ...