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Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve 2027 to Simulcast on ABC and Disney+
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In Short: Dick Clark Productions and ABC announced Wednesday that 'Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2027' will simulcast on Disney+ alongside the live broadcast on ABC, marking the first time the show will be available on the streaming platform.
Ryan Seacrest will return to host the program, with comedian and actor Druski joining as the Chicago co-host. Rita Ora will co-host from Times Square, and Julianne Hough and Rob Gronkowski will return to host from Las Vegas.
The expanded eight-hour celebration will feature 42 performers and nearly 100 songs performed across New York City's Times Square, Las Vegas, Chicago, Puerto Rico, Nashville, and Kansas City, making it the longest telecast in the show's over-50-year history.
The special will air live on Thursday, December 31, starting at 8 p.m. ET, and will also include a Central Time Zone countdown on the Chicago Riverwalk hosted by hometown hero Chance the Rapper.
The show's social engagement reached new heights last year, generating more than 506 million video views across Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and X during the five days surrounding the broadcast, a 165% increase year over year.
More than 30 million viewers watched the iconic Times Square ball drop at midnight, while the 11:30 p.m.–12:30 a.m. ET time frame averaged 19.606 million viewers, with a 5.00 rating in adults 18-49.
The special landed its best ratings in four years; according to live+3 day numbers, at the midnight mark when 2025 turned into 2026, a huge 30.01 million viewers were tuned in.
This year marks the longest telecast in the show’s history, including an additional 90 minutes of programming and featuring the soundtrack of the year, with 831 million total monthly Spotify listeners across the lineup and more than 85 songs performed.
If you can't be in person to see the Constellation Ball make its iconic descent atop One Times Square, you can still experience the magic without cable. It's an annual tradition for nearly 1 million people to gather in N.Y.C. every Dec. 31 to watch the annual New Year's Eve ball drop, while over 1 billion more people tune in on TV to see the symbolic start of the new year.
The expanded eight-hour celebration will feature 42 performers and nearly 100 songs performed across New York City's Times Square, Las Vegas, Chicago, Puerto Rico, Nashville, and Kansas City, making it the longest telecast in the show's over-50-year history.
The show's digital strategy under CEO Josh D’Amaro aims to make Disney+ the “digital centerpiece” of the company, as both the 2027 Super Bowl and New Year’s Rockin’ Eve will be simulcast on the platform.
The special is executive produced by Seacrest, Michael Dempsey, Jay Penske, and Barry Adelman, and has consistently delivered unforgettable moments, from Taylor Swift’s “1989” Times Square medley and Jennifer Lopez’s sky-high performance to recent electrifying sets by Sabrina Carpenter, Lenny Kravitz, Alanis Morissette, Jonas Brothers, and Duran Duran lighting up stages nationwide.
Background
Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2027 will simulcast on Disney+ alongside the live broadcast on ABC, marking the first time the show will be available on the streaming platform.
Richard Wagstaff Clark was an American television and radio personality and television producer who hosted American Bandstand from 1956 to 1989. He also hosted five incarnations of the Pyramid game show from 1973 to 1988 and Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, which broadcast New Year's Eve celebrations in New York City's Times Square.
Los Angeles is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California, the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estimated 9.86 million residents as of 2022, and the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California.
What's confirmed
- ABC and Dick Clark Productions announced on Wednesday that "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2027" will be simulcast on Disney+ alongside the live broadcast on ABC, for the first time in the show's history.
- Last year, the featured artists included Diana Ross ushering in the New Year from Times Square, as well as 4 Non Blondes, 50 Cent, AJR, The All-American Rejects, BigXthaPlug, Chance the Rapper, Chappell Roan, Charlie Puth, Ciara, Daddy Yankee, Demi Lovato, DJ Cassidy's star-studded "Pass The Mic Live!" featuring Busta Rhymes, T.I.
- With 42 featured performers and nearly 100 songs performed across New York City's Times Square, Las Vegas, Chicago, Puerto Rico, Nashville, Kansas City and more, the telecast will be the longest in the show's over-50-year history.
- Rita Ora returns to co-host from New York's Time Square, and performer and "Dancing with the Stars" host Julianne Hough returns as the Las Vegas host alongside former NFL star Rob Gronkowski.
- More details about this year's lineup will be announced in the coming months.
- Social engagement reached new heights as “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” and ABC generated more than 506 million video views across Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and X during the five days surrounding the broadcast, a +165% increase year over year.
- Druski, Rita Ora, Julianne Hough and Rob Gronkowski will co-host alongside Seacrest “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest” will simulcast across ABC and Disney+ for the first time as the special rings in 2027.
- More than 30 million viewers watched the iconic Times Square ball drop at midnight, while the 11:30 p.m.–12:30 a.m.
- Ryan Seacrest will, of course, be back to host, and he’ll be joined once again by co-host Rita Ora live from Times Square in New York City.
- Ryan Seacrest returns to host the program, with comedian and actor Druski joining as the Chicago co-host.
- Consistently ranking as one of America’s most-watched television specials according to Nielsen, “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2026” reached 46 million total viewers, making it the No. 1 television program of the night.
- Produced by Dick Clark Productions, “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2027” is executive produced by Seacrest, Michael Dempsey, Jay Penske and Barry Adelman.
What's still developing
- Bush administration, but its ABC and ESPN have the 2027 Super Bowl, and the company said Wednesday that Disney+ will stream it for the first time.
- ‘Tis a shame they couldn’t do so during the “ChiTown Rising” celebrations for 2016 and 2017, but those were primarily broadcast by the local NBC affiliate at the time.
- Revelers first celebrated New Year's Eve in Times Square in 1904, and the first ball drop took place three years later in 1907, according to the official Times Square website.
- The telecast’s streaming debut follows a record-breaking 2026 edition that further cemented Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve as television’s premier New Year’s Eve destination.
- For the first time ever, the event will air on both ABC and Disney+ at the same time!
- The streamer also will carry ESPN Deportes’ Spanish-language broadcast.
- Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve has been playing in the background of booze- and snack-laden New Year's Eve parties for decades now, and it's not going anywhere.
- Dick Clark Productions is owned by Penske Media Corporation, the parent company of Deadline.
- Dick Clark launched the program as a more youthful alternative to bandleader Guy Lombardo’s long-running New Year’s Eve specials on CBS.
- In the coming weeks, we should have more information about who will be performing at New Year’s Rockin Eve.
- CHICAGO — Making plans to attend Chicago’s portion of “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve”?
- "Let's embrace a new beginning, new opportunities, new joy — a celebration of love, where we all come together as we begin 2026."