Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest is on the up and up. The annual special was up 30% in primetime on ABC with an average of about 8.4M people tuning in from 8 p.m.
to 11:30 p.m. Meanwhile, the late-night edition posted a whopping 18M viewers, soaring to 22.2M by the time the ball dropped in Times Square.
As expected, the audience grew as the night went on. By 10:30 p.m., about 10.4M people were watching, while the first two hours of the show averaged around 7M.
Things fell off after midnight, with the second half of the late-night show only drawing 5.1M viewers. Still, that’s a great increase from last year, up 35% for the first half of the primetime broadcast and 30% for the second half.
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