What is the name of the annual New Year's Eve television special hosted by Dick Clark from 1972?

The annual New Year's Eve television special hosted by Dick Clark from 1972 is “Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve.”

The program debuted for the 1972–73 New Year's celebration on NBC, then moved to ABC, where it became a long-running fixture. Dick Clark hosted the broadcast from Times Square for many years, linking live musical performances with the midnight ball drop. Its title originally emphasized contemporary popular music and distinguished the program from older, more formal holiday broadcasts.

After Clark suffered a stroke in 2004, Ryan Seacrest became a major on-air presence and later the program's principal host. The title has been updated at times to include Seacrest's name, but the original Dick Clark branding remains central. The special is not the same as the Times Square ceremony itself; it is a television production that broadcasts the ceremony along with performances and reports from other locations.