"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 CBS's specials, ""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,"
"American Bandstand American Bandstand is an American music-performance and dance television program that aired in various versions from 1952 to 1989, and was hosted from 1956 until its final season by Dick Clark, who also served as the program's producer. It featured teenagers dancing to Top 40 music introduced by Clark; at least one popular musical act—over the decades, running the gamut from Jerry Lee Lewis to Run–D.M.C.—would usually appear in person to lip-sync one of their latest singles. Freddy Cannon holds the record for most appearances, at 110. The show's popularity helped Dick Clark become an American media mogul"
"vast quantities of Coke, and generally have fun under the eye of the TV camera."" In March 1958 ""TV Disc Jockey"" was replaced by ""Accent on Youth"". Henderson was its host and by May 1958 he was the most popular local identity with the station's viewers. The program was renamed as ""Bandstand"" and Henderson continued as its host until its last episode on 17 June 1972. By then he was chief news reader and remained in that position until retirement in November 2002. ""Bandstand"" is closely associated with a core group of pop performers, who regularly appeared on the program,"
"of December 24, 1989, as part of a Christmas skit. His brother, Richard, who occasionally filled in for Shadoe on the 1986-89 version of ""Hollywood Squares"", is a disc jockey on Citadel Media's Hits & Favorites format. Shadoe Stevens Shadoe Stevens (born Terry Keith Ingstad; November 3, 1947) is an American radio host, voiceover actor, and television personality. He was the host of ""American Top 40"" from 1988 to 1995. He currently hosts the internationally syndicated radio show, ""Top of the World,"" and co-hosts ""Mental Radio"", an entertaining approach to UFOs and paranormal topics. He is the co-founder and creator"
"the variety shows during much of this period were ""antirock."" Schipper points out that Clark's performers were shocking to general audiences: Clark was therefore considered to have a negative influence on youth, and was well aware of that impression held by most adults: In 2002, many of the groups he introduced appeared at the 50th anniversary special to celebrate ""American Bandstand"". Clark noted during the special that ""American Bandstand"" was listed in the Guinness Book of Records as ""the longest-running variety show in TV history."" In 2010, ""American Bandstand"" and Clark himself were honored at the Daytime Emmy Awards. Hank"
"Fox's reality-competition show ""American Idol"". American Bandstand American Bandstand is an American music-performance and dance television program that aired in various versions from 1952 to 1989, and was hosted from 1956 until its final season by Dick Clark, who also served as the program's producer. It featured teenagers dancing to Top 40 music introduced by Clark; at least one popular musical act—over the decades, running the gamut from Jerry Lee Lewis to Run–D.M.C.—would usually appear in person to lip-sync one of their latest singles. Freddy Cannon holds the record for most appearances, at 110. The show's popularity helped Dick Clark"
"Shadoe Stevens Shadoe Stevens (born Terry Keith Ingstad; November 3, 1947) is an American radio host, voiceover actor, and television personality. He was the host of ""American Top 40"" from 1988 to 1995. He currently hosts the internationally syndicated radio show, ""Top of the World,"" and co-hosts ""Mental Radio"", an entertaining approach to UFOs and paranormal topics. He is the co-founder and creator of Sammy Hagar's new rock station ""Cabo Wabo Radio"" broadcasting worldwide from the Cabo Wabo Cantina in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. In television, he was the announcer for ""The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson"" on CBS,"
"New Year's Eve Live New Year's Eve Live is an annual New Year's Eve television special broadcast by CNN. It primarily focuses on coverage of the ball drop festivities held at New York City's Times Square while also featuring reports from festivities in other U.S. cities, and coverage of midnight festivities from a city in the Central Time Zone. Anderson Cooper has been co-host of ""New Year's Eve Live"" since the 2002 celebration. From 2007–2017, comedian Kathy Griffin was also a co-host, providing bawdy comic relief; Griffin was dismissed from the program and CNN in May 2017. In October 2017,"
"Bob Horn (broadcaster) Donald Loyd ""Bob"" Horn (February 20, 1916 in Pine Grove, Pennsylvania – July 31, 1966 in Houston) was an American radio and television personality in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, best known for being the original host of ""Bandstand"" (which later became ""American Bandstand""). According to academic records from his youth, Horn sometimes spelled his surname ""Horne"". In addition, Horn initially replaced his first name with ""Robert""; after landing a disk jockey job at Houston's KILT, Horn became known as Bob Adams. In the late 1940s, Horn was hired by Jack Steck, Program Manager for Philadelphia's WFIL radio station, to"
"continues into ""Part 2"", which features the remainder of the Hollywood concert segments. Part 2 runs into the early morning hours, and has run as late as 3:00 a.m. ET/PT in the past. Prior to the premiere of ""New Year's Rockin' Eve"", the most well-known New Year's Eve program was the annual big band remote of bandleader Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians, broadcast from the ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Guy Lombardo hosted 48 straight New Year's Eve broadcasts on CBS until his death in 1977, beginning on radio in 1928 (and for a period, splitting with NBC Radio"
"was arrested for drunk driving and was subsequently dismissed. On July 9, 1956, Clark became the show's permanent host. ""Bandstand"" was picked up by the ABC television network, renamed ""American Bandstand"", and debuted nationally on August 5, 1957. The show took off, due to Clark's natural rapport with the live teenage audience and dancing participants as well as the non-threatening image he projected to television audiences. As a result, many parents were introduced to rock and roll music. According to Hollywood producer Michael Uslan, ""he was able to use his unparalleled communication skills to present rock 'n roll in a"
"is provided to broadcasters to incorporate into their coverage. The event is covered as part of New Year's Eve television specials on several major U.S. television networks. By far the most notable of these is ""Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve""; created, produced, and originally hosted by the entertainer Dick Clark until his death in 2012, and currently hosted by Ryan Seacrest and Jenny McCarthy, the program first aired on NBC in 1972 before moving to ABC, where it has been broadcast ever since. ""New Year's Rockin' Eve"" has consistently been the most-watched New Year's Eve special in the U.S."
"members of listeners. Duran's career spans across many platforms. Besides his regular monthly segment ""Elvis Duran's Artist of the Month"" on ""Today"", Duran is also a regular guest on ""Late Night with Jimmy Fallon"", ""The Talk"", ""Entertainment Tonight"", ""Access Hollywood Live"", and ""Extra"". For two years in a row, Duran co-hosted the Live Grammy Red Carpet Show with ""Entertainment Tonight"" on Pop. On August 5, 2014, Duran turned 50 years old. To commemorate this huge milestone, all of Duran's celebrity friends sent in surprise video messages to wish him a happy birthday. Celebrities from Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber,"
"the burgeoning musical form, which competed with one another throughout the remainder of the decade. In 1957, a popular television show featuring rock and roll performers, American Bandstand, went national. Hosted by Dick Clark, the program helped to popularize the more clean-cut, All-American brand of rock and roll. By the end of the decade, teen idols like Bobby Darin, Ricky Nelson, Frankie Avalon, Paul Anka, Neil Sedaka, Bobby Rydell, Connie Francis, and Fabian Forte were topping the charts. Some commentators have perceived this as the decline of rock and roll; citing the deaths of Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and"
"Ryan Seacrest Ryan John Seacrest (born December 24, 1974) is an American radio personality, television host, and producer. Seacrest is known for hosting the competition show ""American Idol"", the syndicated countdown program ""American Top 40"", and the KIIS-FM morning radio show ""On Air with Ryan Seacrest"". In 2006 Seacrest became co-host and executive producer of ""Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve"". Seacrest remained a co-host and producer following Clark's death in 2012. He began co-hosting ""Live with Kelly and Ryan"" on a permanent basis May 1, 2017. Seacrest received Emmy Award nominations for ""American Idol"" from 2004 to 2013, and"
"Brian Henderson (television presenter) Brian Weir Henderson AM (born 15 September 1931) is a retired Gold Logie winning Australian radio and television personality and pioneer known for his long association with the Nine Network in Australia as a television news anchor and variety show presenter, as host of the Australian version of the US music program ""Bandstand"". Henderson was born in New Zealand and is nicknamed ""Hendo"". Henderson hosted the Australian version of ""Bandstand"" from 1958 until 1972. Henderson also holds the record for the longest-serving television news presenter, having read either the weekend or the weeknight news on Sydney"
"Beach Boys, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Simon and Garfunkel, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, Bobby Fuller, Johnny Cash, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino and Chubby Checker. During an interview with Clark by Henry Schipper of ""Rolling Stone"" magazine in 1990, it was noted that ""over two-thirds of the people who've been initiated into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame had their television debuts on ""American Bandstand"", and the rest of them probably debuted on other shows [they] produced."" During the show's lifetime, it featured over 10,000 live performances, many by artists who were unable to appear anywhere else on TV, as"
"Darrell Hammond Darrell Clayton Hammond (born October 8, 1955) is an American actor, stand-up comedian and impressionist. He was a regular cast member on ""Saturday Night Live"" from 1995 to 2009. Upon his departure, Hammond, at age 53, was the oldest cast member in the show's history. Hammond made more ""SNL"" appearances than any other cast member and impersonated more than 107 celebrities, with Bill Clinton as his most frequent impression. Hammond held the record for most impersonations by an ""SNL"" cast member with 107, until he was surpassed by Kenan Thompson on May 3, 2014. On September 19, 2014,"
"albums Holiday albums Singles Regis Philbin Regis Francis Xavier Philbin (; born August 25, 1931) is an American media personality, actor, and singer, known for hosting talk and game shows since the 1960s. After graduating from the University of Notre Dame he served in the Navy, and got his television start serving as a page for the ""Tonight Show"" in the 1950s. Philbin gained his first network TV exposure in 1967 as Joey Bishop's sidekick on ""The Joey Bishop Show"". Sometimes called (alternatively attributed to James Brown) ""the hardest working man in show business"", Philbin holds the Guinness World Record"
"shortlist in 2010, being beaten out by Brian Naylor. Brian Henderson (television presenter) Brian Weir Henderson AM (born 15 September 1931) is a retired Gold Logie winning Australian radio and television personality and pioneer known for his long association with the Nine Network in Australia as a television news anchor and variety show presenter, as host of the Australian version of the US music program ""Bandstand"". Henderson was born in New Zealand and is nicknamed ""Hendo"". Henderson hosted the Australian version of ""Bandstand"" from 1958 until 1972. Henderson also holds the record for the longest-serving television news presenter, having read"
"NBC's New Year's Eve NBC's New Year's Eve (formerly New Year's Eve with Carson Daly) is a television special which airs on New Year's Eve annually on NBC. The special is broadcast from Times Square in New York City, and prominently features coverage of its annual ball drop event, along with live and pre-recorded musical performances by popular musicians from Rockefeller Center and Los Angeles. Premiering for New Year's Eve 2004-05, the special competes against similar specials that also cover the ball drop, such as ABC's ""New Year's Rockin' Eve"". The special is hosted and produced by Carson Daly—better known"
"(as of 2015) and is an international Pop singer. Ralph Baker Jr. Ralph Durwood Baker Jr. was an American broadcaster and actor. He was known for being a co-host of ""The Group and Chapman"" and ""Sump'n Else"" shows on WFAA-TV. He was known for being a DJ and announcer at KLIF-AM, one of the first Top 40 radio stations. Ralph was a ""Teen Idol"" broadcaster in the 1960s and was heard and seen in many television and radio commercials as well. In the mid-1960s he became known as ""The Sanger-Harris Man"" and was an official model for the Sanger-Harris department"
"spectrum of styles. A founder of Reader’s Digest Video, he created many of their biggest TV triumphs, from America In The '40s (PBS) and Legends Of Comedy (Disney) to An Old-Fashioned Christmas (syndicated). He also assembled such award-winning series and specials as Remembering The ‘70s, Elvis, On A Country Road (with Lee Arnold), In Touch (with Kris Erik Stevens), The 100 Greatest Christmas Hits of All Time (with Wink Martindale), The Golden Years, The Halloween Spooktacular (with Kerin McCue) and, most famously, the 52-hour History Of Rock ‘n’ Roll (winner of Billboard’s “Top Special Program Of The Year” award). The"
"The show gave many new music artists their first exposure to national audiences, including Iggy Pop, Ike & Tina Turner, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Talking Heads, Simon & Garfunkel and Madonna. Episodes he hosted were among the first in which blacks and whites performed on the same stage, and likewise among the first in which the live studio audience sat without racial segregation. Singer Paul Anka claimed that ""Bandstand"" was responsible for creating a ""youth culture"". Due to his perennial youthful appearance and his largely teenaged audience of ""American Bandstand"", Clark was often referred to as"
"and beauty queen Lynn Michels in 1958, when he was 34 and she was 18. Michels, born Charlotte Joyce Wexler, was from Chester, Pennsylvania. She was on stage from an early age, working alongside a number of Pennsylvania-based acts, including The Four Aces and Bill Haley and the Comets. At age 10, she took first place during an appearance on Paul Whiteman's Philadelphia-based Saturday morning talent show, TV Teen Club (an indirect predecessor to American Bandstand). Later, she was a regular on the Sunday morning children's talent show, The Horn and Hardart Children's Hour, hosted by Stan Lee Broza on"
"entered the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart at #22, thus becoming the oldest living performer to ever enter the music charts, at 91 years and 6 months. The record was previously held (among living artists) by Tony Bennett, who was 85 when he recorded ""Body and Soul"" with Amy Winehouse in March 2011 (Louis Armstrong's ""What a Wonderful World"" charted when Armstrong would have been 86 years old in 1987, but Armstrong had recorded the song 20 years prior, and was already dead by the time the song became a hit). After media attention, the song rose to #18. Lee released"
"order to maintain support. Once the program went national in Los Angeles, new host Dick Clark decided that integration was the most responsible move. History goes back and forth with the timing and motives of the integration, but nevertheless, ""American Bandstand"" socially impacted teenagers' opinions regarding race. In 2002, Dick Clark hosted a special 50th anniversary edition. Michael Jackson, a frequent ""Bandstand"" guest, performed ""Dangerous"". The Village People performed their legendary song, ""YMCA"" for the audience in Pasadena, California. Other performers including Brandy, members of KISS, Dennis Quaid and his band The Sharks, Cher, and Stevie Wonder also performed to"
"Tom Bergeron Thomas ""Tom"" Bergeron (born May 6, 1955) is an American television personality, comedian, and game show host. He has remained with the ABC network ""America's Funniest Home Videos"" (2001–2015) and ""Dancing with the Stars"" (2005–present). Bergeron was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, son of the late Kay and Ray Bergeron. He is of French-Canadian and Irish descent. His first job in broadcasting was as a disc jockey at local radio station WHAV, in his home town of Haverhill, Massachusetts. He became a popular radio DJ in the Seacoast area of New Hampshire in the early 1980s on Portsmouth's WHEB,"
"Regis Philbin Regis Francis Xavier Philbin (; born August 25, 1931) is an American media personality, actor, and singer, known for hosting talk and game shows since the 1960s. After graduating from the University of Notre Dame he served in the Navy, and got his television start serving as a page for the ""Tonight Show"" in the 1950s. Philbin gained his first network TV exposure in 1967 as Joey Bishop's sidekick on ""The Joey Bishop Show"". Sometimes called (alternatively attributed to James Brown) ""the hardest working man in show business"", Philbin holds the Guinness World Record for the most time"
"Angeles version in 2009. Kimmel has been a fundraiser for the Democratic Party. Jimmy Kimmel James Christian Kimmel (born November 13, 1967) is an American television host, comedian, writer, and producer. He is the host and executive producer of ""Jimmy Kimmel Live!"", a late-night talk show that premiered on ABC in 2003. Kimmel hosted the Primetime Emmy Awards in 2012 and 2016, and the Academy Awards in 2017, 2018 and now 2019. Before hosting ""Jimmy Kimmel Live!"", he was best known as the co-host of Comedy Central's ""The Man Show"" and ""Win Ben Stein's Money"". Kimmel has also produced such"
"the Performing Arts. He was scheduled to receive the prize in a ceremony slated for October 22. David Letterman David Michael Letterman (born April 12, 1947) is an American television host, comedian, writer, and producer. He hosted late night television talk shows for 33 years, beginning with the February 1, 1982, debut of ""Late Night with David Letterman"" on NBC, and ending with the May 20, 2015, broadcast of ""Late Show with David Letterman"" on CBS. In total, Letterman hosted 6,028 episodes of ""Late Night"" and ""Late Show"", surpassing friend and mentor Johnny Carson as the longest-serving late night talk"
"18–49s). The 2016 edition of ""Pitbull's New Year's Revolution"" brought notable gains; the primetime portion recorded 2.6 million viewers and a 29% increase among 18-49s, while the late-night portion recorded a 3.1 household rating and a 2.7 rating among 18-49s. Ratings were down in 2017, with a 2.6 household rating and a 2.4 rating among 18-49s. On November 16, 2017, Fox announced that it would air a new special hosted by television personality Steve Harvey, known as Fox's New Year's Eve with Steve Harvey: Live from Times Square, for New Year's Eve 2018. The new special would be produced by"
"Rolling Stones song ""Ruby Tuesday"". The song includes the lyrics ""[w]hen you change with every new day / Still I'm gonna miss you"". Alan Keith Alan Keith OBE (born Alexander Kossoff; 19 October 1908 – 17 March 2003) was a British actor, disc jockey and radio presenter, noted for being the longest serving and oldest presenter on British radio by the time of his death aged 94. Alexander Kossoff was born in the East End of London and educated at Dame Alice Owen's School at Islington. In 1926 he won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where"