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Today, Countdown Entertainment and One Times Square handle the New Year's Eve event in conjunction with the Times Square Alliance. [160] A new energy-efficient LED ball debuted for the arrival of 2008, which was the centennial of the Times Square ball drop.
The Times Square Ball is a time ball located in New York City's Times Square.Located on the roof of One Times Square, the ball is a prominent part of a New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square commonly referred to as the ball drop, where the ball descends down a specially designed flagpole, beginning at 11:59:00 p.m. ET, and resting at midnight to signal the start of the new year.
An estimated 1 million people packed Times Square to watch the New Year's Eve 2025 ball drop Tuesday ... CBS News New York also had live shots from the ball drop countdown starting at 10:30 p.m ...
Looking for a way to watch remotely? Here’s how to livestream the 2024 New Year’s Eve countdown and ball drop for free. What TV channels will air the ball drop in Times Square on New Year’s Eve?
Pop singer-songwriter Mark Ambor was scheduled to perform in Times Square from 8:03 p.m. to 8:12 p.m. EST, according to organizers of the New Year's Eve festivities at the "Crossroads of the World."
In 1926, Reilly proposed the idea of installing a news ticker bulletin on the Times Tower to the owner of the New York Times Adolph Ochs and deputy Arthur Hays Sulzberger. They all signed a contract July 26, 1928. [2] It took 8 weeks to install the display with work being done 24 hours a day in order to meet the contracted deadline.
The Times Square ball first dropped in 1904, and it came into being thanks to Jacob Starr, a Ukranian immigrant and metalworker, and the former New York Times publisher, Adolph Ochs.
Times Square staged a series of live performances lasting nearly 24 hours, from 6:30 a.m. on 31 December to 6:10 a.m. on 1 January, with performances and musical styles from all over the world representing the countries that were entering the year 2000 at each hour. [43]