Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve
Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve is an annual television special broadcast by ABC. The special broadcasts primarily from New York City’s Times Square and prominently features coverage of its annual ball drop event. It also features live and pre-recorded musical performances by popular musicians, in addition to live performances and coverage of festivities from New Orleans. The show has been broadcast on ABC since 1973, and will continue to be broadcast on the network through 2024. It has been hosted by Dick Clark from 1973 through 1999 and from 2001 through 2004.
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Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve is an annual television special broadcast by ABC. The special broadcasts primarily from New York City’s Times Square and prominently features coverage of its annual ball drop event. It also features live and pre-recorded musical performances by popular musicians, in addition to live performances and coverage of festivities from New Orleans. The 2012 edition peaked at 22. 6 million home viewers, not including viewers watching from public locations, which were not measured by Nielsen at the time. Through its deal with Dick Clark Productions, New Year’s Rockin’ Eve will remain on ABC through at least 2024. Since 2005, Ryan Seacrest has hosted the live show outside in Times Square, joined by a celebrity correspondent providing additional reports from attendees. Since the 2017–18 edition, these concert segments have been presented from a studio in Los Angeles by Ciara and is the only segment to not include a New year’s countdown. Since 2000–01’s edition, coverage has begun with a segment airing in primetime: initially airing at 10: 00 p.m. m. ETPT, beginning with the 2011-12 edition, the show was extended to 8: 00 m. p. m ETPT to accommodate musical retrospective specials that aired from the 2011–12 to 2013–14 editions. For the purposes for Nielsen ratings, it is officially classed into four separate numbers between the lower-rated and higher-rated parts of the special.
The first two hours are referred to as “Part I” and “Part II”, with the main New Year”s Eve programming beginning at 11: 30:30 p.m ET. Following the end of the main programming, the special’s end is called “Part III” and is followed by the heavily taped performance leading up to the New Years’ Eve countdown. The final part of the show is called ‘Part IV’ and airs at approximately 12: 10:a m T up to approximately 11:30:30 m. ET. Since 2016–17, thespecial has also originated performances from New Louisiana, hosted from the Sugar Bowl’s \”Fan Fest\” event. Since the 2012–13 edition, Seacrrest has typically been joined by Jenny McCarthy as a correspondent from Times Square. In December 2004, Clark suffered from a stroke, which resulted in Regis Philbin serving as guest host. Clark continued to make limited appearances as a co-host until his death in 2012. He carried on with his tradition of kissing his wife, Kari Wigton, at midnight. He also continued to appear on other programs in parody of his role. To this day, it has consistently remained the highest-rated New Year’s Eve special Broadcast by the United States’ major television networks. The show has been broadcast on ABC since 1973, and will continue to be broadcast on the network through 2024. It has been hosted by Dick Clark from 1973 through 1999 and from 2001 through 2004.
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