Ranked as the No. Ryan Seacrest will serve as host and executive producer of the prime-time festivities and lead the traditional countdown to midnight from Times Square in New York City, as he has for the last 13 years, with live onsite reporting from actress and comedian Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg. One of the world's best-selling pop music icons, Christina Aguilera, will perform for a live audience of more than one million people just minutes before the ball drops on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest They'll join a long list of performers and. Airing just after midnight, Post Malone will perform from a stop on his current tour in Brooklyn, New York, marking the first television performance of the New Year. Award-winning actress Lucy Hale will return to host the 3rd annual Central Time Zone celebration from New Orleans, providing viewers with exclusive performances and celebrity and fan interviews leading up to the midnight countdown and stunning fleur-de-lis drop near Jackson Square at the dawn of the New Year. Create an ABC Account to save your favorite shows and continue watching where your left off.


Dick Clark's New Year's Eve special first aired on this day in 1972



Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve celebrates its 43rd new year – Eastside
From Wikipedia :. Since , Ryan Seacrest has been hosting the show outdoors at Times Square while Dick Clark offers comments from a studio. After the ball drops, the focus of the program switches to pre-taped musical segments taped in Hollywood December 31, December 31, ; December 31, December 31, or Las Vegas December 31, The segments from Times Square are broadcast live in the Eastern Standard Time zone, and it is delayed for the other time zones so that they can ring in the new year with Clark when midnight strikes in their area. In the three and a half decades it has been on the air, the show has become a mainstay in American New Year's celebrations. Watching the ball drop on Clark's show is considered an annual cultural tradition for the New Year's holiday. The hour-long program features live reports on the festivities in Times Square, as well as various performances.


Dick Clark
Sign in. At the age of 16, Clark got his first job in the mailroom of WRUN, a radio station in Utica, New York, which was owned by his uncle and managed by his father. He worked his way up the ranks and was promoted to weatherman before becoming a radio announcer.



This year Seacrest returns to ABC at 8 p. Desperate to get on camera, Monica and Ross resurrect a quirky, weirdly intimate dance number from their high school days. You turn Dick on to help you through the night. I was the host of the first millennium. Thanks anyway… candies.