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 ...

There are two types of people in this world: those who hit the town and those who hit the couch come New Year's Eve. If you fall in the latter category, ringing in 2025 at home watching the New ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...