Christmas is over and now it's time to turn our attention to the New Year. For many that means watching the ball drop in Times Square. Dick Clark has owned the night but now he shares it with youngins' like Ryan Seacrest and Carson Daly. However, Carson insists there's no rivalry between the boys to replace the superstar. Here's highlights:

"Dick Clark is a huge inspiration for the huge success he's achieved," Daly told the Los Angeles Times in a recent interview. "But that's where I stop. The world is changing. I'm young; I have my own thoughts as a producer. I'm not trying to keep his tradition. I'm trying to do my own."

Both Daly and Seacrest will return Sunday night as competitors in their second New Year's Eve as Clark, 77, continues to recover from a 2004 stroke.

Clark, a former host of American Bandstand, has reported on the madness in New York's Times Square for viewers nearly every year since 1972. Last year Seacrest, who hosts the popular television show American Idol, took over much of the broadcast for Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, a three-and-a-half hour show broadcast on ABC. He returns in that role again this year.

Daly will host NBC's "New Year's Eve With Carson Daly," which starts at 11:30 p.m.

Last year's "Rockin' Eve" was Clark's first national TV appearance since his stroke. He plans to return for at least a small role again this year.

"He and I have a great relationship. Whatever he wants to do, whether he wants to do more or less than last year, I'll do it," Seacrest said.

At least the interview sparked enough headlines to remind us that Carson was going to be doing NBC's show.

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