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Dick Clark Signs Through 2022

Silkie said:
There is a great demographic who grew up together with Dick Clark, and who leave the rip current of people in Times Square and the "gotta be somewhere" bar scenes to the amateurs we once were. By rip current of people, anyone who has ever done Times Square on New Year's Eve knows that if you are not literally tied to the people you are partying with, like mountain climbers, you just kind of get swept along by the throngs, much the same way you would drift out to sea in a gentle rip current, until you can no longer see the shoreline and wonder how far out you really are, or whether you should just continue to loll on your raft until a ship comes along. Eventually the current releases its grip and you wash up at your hotel, where you catch up with your friends. Or you walk a mile or grab a cab when you finally get your bearings.

Dick Clark represents a very large piece of pop culture Americana.
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But they're all leaving or soon to be leaving the 18-49 Demographic, but advertisers probably figure that demographic is out on NYE anyway
 
Although not quite the same type of "deal", ABC Radio re-signed a then 90 year old Paul Harvey to a ten year extention of his legendary "News and Comment" and "Rest Of The Story" stories.

No..he didnt fulfill the deal..but I wish they'd re-air the "Storys"..good stuff to break up the day.
 
So, if the story were true, and Clark died before 2022, would that be considered breach of contract?

Besides, he's gotta be 114 years old anyway. He was doing "American Bandstand" before there was an America!

(I keed, I keed......)
 
The first two Rockin Eves were on NBC, before moving over to ABC.
 
johnnya2k6 said:
All joking aside, Dick Clark will be DEAD by 2022 (he'd be 93)!
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Having a long-term future commitment might actually serve as motivation for him to stick around.
People forget that George Burns, when he was in his 80's, signed a contract to play the London
Palladium on his 100th birthday.

I think he was not healthy enough on his birthday to actually play the gig...but he made it to 100.
 
Studio20 said:
Although not quite the same type of "deal", ABC Radio re-signed a then 90 year old Paul Harvey to a ten year extention of his legendary "News and Comment" and "Rest Of The Story" stories.

No..he didnt fulfill the deal..but I wish they'd re-air the "Storys"..good stuff to break up the day.
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Me too. At one time his web site had the audio of the stories, and then they quit. Occasionally, my radio station would forget to record them for the next day (which I needed if I somehow missed one in the afternoon) and they wouldn't bother with the Saturday ones after WFMX changed. I requested that they do that and got a response that there were copyright problems. Why weren't there copyright problems before? What about the poor people without an affiliate?

I even suggested compiling the stories on cassette and said I'd buy one or more.
 
Silkie said:
FDR said people would dead by the time they were 57 when Social Security was passed. Do you find something unusual about a person living to age 93?
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The oldest member of my church is 96. Several weeks ago she shot a deer. She's been featured on The Charlotte Observer outdoor page.
 
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