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Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest Season 2012

Season· 2012

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 rol…

Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest Season 2012 originally premiered on ABC on December 31, 2012. Current US availability is unconfirmed.

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