Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve With Ryan Seacrest

Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest is an annual television special that airs every New Year's Eve on ABC. The special broadcasts from New York City's Times Square, and prominently features coverage of its annual ball drop event, along with live and pre-recorded musical performances by popular acts. New Year's Rockin' Eve has historically been one of the most watched New Year's Eve broadcasts in the United States; its 2012 edition peaked at 22.6 million home viewers—not including viewers watching from locations such as bars and New Year's Eve parties, which are not measured by Nielsen.

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.

Read more about Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve With Ryan Seacrest:  Format

Famous quotes containing the words dick, clark, year and/or eve:

    “Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.”
    —Philip K. Dick (1928–1982)

    “In the beginning, I wanted to enter what was essentially a man’s field. I wanted to prove I could do it. Then I found that when I did as well as the men in the field I got more credit for my work because I am a woman, which seems unfair.”
    —Eugenie Clark (b. 1922)

    “Living more lives than one, knowing people of all classes, all shades of opinion, monarchists, republicans, socialists, anarchists, has had a salutary effect on my mind. If every year of my life, every month of the year, I had lived with reformers and crusaders I should be, by this time, a fanatic. As it is I have had such varied things to do, I have had so many different contacts that I am not even very much of a crank.”
    —Rheta Childe Dorr (1866–1948)

    “It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the Fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, “All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up.” And they did.”
    —Diane Arbus (1923–1971)