Dropping the ball: 8 pretenders to Dick Clark's New Year's Eve throne

As Americans in each time zone are introduced to 2014, ABC's annually aired 'Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin Eve' celebration greeted the new year with a ba.

As Americans in each time zone are introduced to 2014, ABC's annually aired 'Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin Eve' celebration greeted the new year with a ba.

For decades, Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve on ABC was the default broadcast playing in the background while America drank itself into a stupor. Clark, who died last year, knew how to hit the sweet spot of a New Year's 

Pitbull, Mr. Worldwide, will appear in a live performance from the American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida on “Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest,” joining the country's biggest New Year's Eve celebration on DECEMBER 31, beginning 

That's certainly true on NewYear's Eve, when Seacrest has taken over where Dick Clark, who passed away in 2012 at the age of 82, left off. Daly, who's been hosting NewYear's Eve celebrations from Times Square for more than a decade, has become NBC's