Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

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 musicians from Times Square and Hollywood, respectively. Its creator and namesake was the entertainer Dick Clark, who conceived New Year's Rockin' Eve as a younger-skewing competitor to Guy Lombardo's popular and long-running New Year's Eve big band broadcasts on CBS. The first two editions, which were hosted by Three Dog Night and George Carlin, respectively, and featured Dick Clark assuming the role of Times Square reporter, were broadcast by NBC for 1973 and 1974, respectively. In 1974-75, the program moved to its current home of ABC, and Clark assumed the role of host.

Following the death of Guy Lombardo and the decline of the Royal Canadians' special, New Year's Rockin' Eve grew in popularity, and became ingrained in pop culture—even prompting Clark himself to make appearances on other programs in parody of his role. To this day, New Year's Rockin' Eve has remained the highest-rated New Year's Eve special broadcast by the United States' major television networks; its 2012 edition peaked at 22.6 million home viewers—not including viewers watching from public locations which are not measured by Nielsen.

Series details

• Title: Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest
• Format: Variety
• Language: English
• Premiere date: 1972-12-31
• Status in TVmaze: Running
• Network listed by TVmaze: ABC
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 135 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 10026
• TVDB ID: 265325

Cast and credited roles

• Ryan Seacrest — Host
• Ciara — Host
• Jenny McCarthy — Host
• Lucy Hale — Host
• Dick Clark — Host
• Billy Porter — Host
• Jessie James Decker — Host
• Stacy Ferguson — Host
• Liza Koshy — Host
• D-Nice — Host
• Rita Ora — Host

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1972: premiered 1972-12-31; final listed air date 1972-12-31; episode order: 1.
• Season 1973: premiered 1973-12-31; final listed air date 1973-12-31; episode order: 1.
• Season 1974: premiered 1974-12-31; final listed air date 1974-12-31; episode order: 1.
• Season 1975: premiered 1975-12-31; final listed air date 1975-12-31; episode order: 1.
• Season 1976: premiered 1976-12-31; final listed air date 1976-12-31; episode order: 1.
• Season 1977: premiered 1977-12-31; final listed air date 1977-12-31; episode order: 1.
• Season 1978: premiered 1978-12-31; final listed air date 1978-12-31; episode order: 1.
• Season 1979: premiered 1979-12-31; final listed air date 1979-12-31; episode order: 1.
• Season 1980: premiered 1980-12-31; final listed air date 1980-12-31; episode order: 1.
• Season 1981: premiered 1981-12-31; final listed air date 1981-12-31; episode order: 1.
• Season 1982: premiered 1982-12-31; final listed air date 1982-12-31; episode order: 1.
• Season 1983: premiered 1983-12-31; final listed air date 1983-12-31; episode order: 1.
• Season 1984: premiered 1984-12-31; final listed air date 1984-12-31; episode order: 1.
• Season 1985: premiered 1985-12-31; final listed air date 1985-12-31; episode order: 1.
• Season 1986: premiered 1986-12-31; final listed air date 1986-12-31; episode order: 1.
• Season 1987: premiered 1987-12-31; final listed air date 1987-12-31; episode order: 1.
• Season 1988: premiered 1988-12-31; final listed air date 1988-12-31; episode order: 1.
• Season 1989: premiered 1989-12-31; final listed air date 1989-12-31; episode order: 1.
• Season 1990: premiered 1990-12-31; final listed air date 1990-12-31; episode order: 1.
• Season 1991: premiered 1991-12-31; final listed air date 1991-12-31; episode order: 1.
• Season 1992: premiered 1992-12-31; final listed air date 1992-12-31; episode order: 1.
• Season 1993: premiered 1993-12-31; final listed air date 1993-12-31; episode order: 1.
• Season 1994: premiered 1994-12-31; final listed air date 1994-12-31; episode order: 1.
• Season 1995: premiered 1995-12-31; final listed air date 1995-12-31; episode order: 1.
• Season 1996: premiered 1996-12-31; final listed air date 1996-12-31; episode order: 1.
• Season 1997: premiered 1997-12-31; final listed air date 1997-12-31; episode order: 1.
• Season 1998: premiered 1998-12-31; final listed air date 1998-12-31; episode order: 1.
• Season 1999: premiered 1999-12-31; final listed air date 1999-12-31; episode order: 1.
• Season 2000: premiered 2000-12-31; final listed air date 2000-12-31; episode order: 1.
• Season 2001: premiered 2001-12-31; final listed air date 2001-12-31; episode order: 1.

Source and licence

Adapted from Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.