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''Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve'' 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.〔〔 Dick Clark hosted ''New Year's Rockin' Eve'' annually from 1974 through 2004, and served as a Times Square correspondent alongside Peter Jennings for ABC News's special coverage of year 2000 celebrations. The complications of a stroke suffered by Clark in December 2004 had a major effect on his role in the special. After having Regis Philbin serve as a guest host for 2005, Clark returned for the 2006 edition to serve as a host: due to speech impediments that had resulted from his stroke, he ceded hosting duties to Ryan Seacrest. The death of Dick Clark on April 18, 2012 left Ryan Seacrest as the sole host of ''New Year's Rockin' Eve'' beginning with its 2012–13 edition. Seacrest has most recently been joined by Jenny McCarthy as a correspondent from Times Square, with Fergie of The Black Eyed Peas serving as the presenter of the Hollywood concert segments. ==Format== ''New Year's Rockin' Eve'' is primarily broadcast from Times Square in New York City, providing coverage of the New Year's Eve festivities held there, culminating with the long-running ball drop leading to midnight and the New Year. The special also features pre-recorded segments featuring performances by popular musicians; since the 2006–07 edition, these concert segments (branded since the 2014-15 edition as the "''Billboard'' Hollywood Party")〔 have been presented from a studio in Los Angeles by Fergie of The Black Eyed Peas. Since the 2005–06 edition, ''New Year's Rockin' Eve'' has also featured live performances from a stage in Times Square. Since 2000–01's edition, coverage has begun with a segment airing in primetime: initially airing at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT, beginning with the 2012-13 edition, the show was extended to 8:00 p.m. ET/PT to accommodate musical retrospective specials that aired from the 2011-12 to 2013-14 editions. These specials primarily featured countdowns of archived music performances from the Dick Clark Productions library, including the top ''New Year's Rockin' Eve'' performances, and the "30 Greatest Women in Music".〔〔 Following late local programming, the main ''New Year's Rockin' Eve'' broadcast begins at 11:35 p.m. ET/PT; this segment of the broadcast can be tape delayed (either by ABC's west coast feed, or at the discretion of affiliates in the Central and Mountain Time zones) so the countdown corresponds to local time. After the conclusion of festivities from Times Square, the special continues into ''Part 2'', which consists of further pre-recorded concert segments. ''Part 2'' runs into the early morning hours—as late as 3:00 a.m. ET/PT.〔〔 Since 2005, Ryan Seacrest has hosted the live show outside in Times Square (along with a celebrity correspondent providing additional reports from attendees). From his return and until his death, Dick Clark hosted a limited number of segments from Times Square Studios approaching midnight, but still conducted his traditional countdown, and continued on with the tradition of kissing his wife, Kari Wigton, at midnight.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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