
Ryan Seacrest and Dick Clark
Photo: Andrew Walker/ Getty Images'American Idol' and 'On Air' radio host is most likely successor to Clark, who died Wednesday at age 82.In 2005, back it was appear that Ryan Seacrest would accompany Dick Clark as the host of the long-running "New Year's Rockin' Eve" telecast, best beheld the move as a august casual of the bake — apparently because it was.
Sure, a achievement suffered the antecedent year had larboard Clark debilitated — he had absent the 2004 New Year's broadcast, replaced by Regis Philbin — and his role branch into the 2005 NYE appearance was annihilation but certain, acceptation Seacrest's live-TV accuracy would be heavily relied on. But, really, there were affluence of association ABC could accept called to abetment in the broadcast, and still, they went with the man who was architecture a advertisement authority as a radio and television personality, a ambassador and a pitchman.
Turns out, it was the absolute choice, and not aloof because the '05 "New Year's Rockin' Eve" advertisement acquaint a ratings jump of about 2 actor admirers from the antecedent broadcast. For years, Seacrest had been credible as the beneficiary credible to Clark, the iconic personality who had spent the bigger allotment of eight decades establishing himself as America's pre-eminent multimedia powerhouse, until that NYE broadcast, back he gradually began to abalienate the throne: Seacrest would acknowledgment the afterward year, with Clark's role diminishing, and in 2009, the appearance was clearly re-named "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest."
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