Its host, creator, and namesake was entertainer Dick Clark, who hosted coverage of New Year's Eve celebrations in Times Square for ABC (through both Rockin' Eve and ABC's special coverage of millennium celebrations) annually from 1975 to 2004—when the complications of a stroke less than a month prior prevented him from participating in the 2005 edition, resulting in Regis Philbin substituting as host. While Clark would return from 2006 to 2012, his role on Rockin' Eve became more limited due to Clark's dysarthria (a lingering effect from the stroke), as Ryan Seacrest became the main on-air host from Times Square. Clark's death on April 18, 2012 will leave Seacrest as the sole, primary host beginning on the 2012-13 edition of the special.
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