Dick Clark

Dick Clark, the ever-youthful television host and tireless entrepreneur who helped bring rock ‘n’ roll into the mainstream on “American Bandstand,” and later produced and hosted a vast range of programming from game shows to the year-end countdown from Times Square on “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve,” has died. He was 82. Story here.

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Wed., April 18, 2012

Dick Clark is shown in 1980. Clark, the television host who helped bring rock 'n' roll into the mainstream on "American Bandstand," has died. He was 82.
Dick Clark selects a record in his station library in Philadelphia in 1959. Clark helped bring rock 'n' roll into the mainstream on "American Bandstand."
Dick Clark hosts the New Year's eve special from New York's Times Square.

Donna Svennevik Abc, Inc.
Dick Clark, host of the American Bandstand television show, introduces entertainer Michael Jackson on stage during taping of the show's 50th anniversary special in Pasadena, Calif., in 2002.

Kevork Djansezian Associated Press
Michael Jackson and American Music Awards executive producer Dick Clark go over the script during rehearsals for the 1993 American Music Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
Dick Clark is seen surrounded by fans in 1957 during a television broadcast of "American Bandstand."
"American Bandstand" host Dick Clark is shown in this 1974 ABC photo.
Dick Clark, left, poses with Ryan Seacrest in New York in 2006. Clark, the ever-youthful television host and tireless entrepreneur who helped bring rock `n' roll into the mainstream on "American Bandstand," and later produced and hosted a vast range of programming from game shows to the New Year's Eve countdown from Times Square, died of a heart attack on Wednesday, April 18, 2012. He was 82.
Dick Clark and Barbara Mallery with their son, Richard, 3, in their home near Philadelphia in 1960.
Dick Clark and Ryan Seacrest pose on the set of "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2012" in Times Square in New York on Dec. 31.

Ida Astute American Broadcasting Companies,