American Idol host Ryan Seacrest launches new entertainment talk show on radio
ATLANTA (AP) — When Ryan Seacrest launched his entertainment talk show On-Air With Ryan Seacrest Monday, it marked only his latest in a fast-growing list of ventures.
The 29-year-old Atlanta native, best known as the host of American Idol, was recently named as the replacement for the legendary Casey Kasem on the radio countdown show American Top 40. He also hosted the Billboard Music Awards and the Fox New Year’s Eve special last year.
Seacrest has even subbed for CNN’s Larry King — but he acknowledges he runs a risk of being overexposed.
“You have to look at the broadcast world differently,” he told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “In broadcast, it’s conventional to be on five days a week.”
Seacrest is following the business model of his American idol, 74-year-old Dick Clark, who established himself in the 1950s as the host of the weekly music TV show American Bandstand and built a production company that now produces the American Music Awards and his New Year’s Rockin’ Eve special.
“I’ve had a game plan for a long time,” Seacrest said. “I want to do what Dick Clark did: Build businesses out of what we do. Oprah, too. These are very smart business people who’ve created something out of first being ‘talent.”’
Holy crap. So he's the new Larry King, the new Casey Kasem, the new Dick Clark, and now the new Oprah!
I just hope his Canadian counterpart Ben Mulroney doesn't get any ideas.
― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 12 January 2004 20:11 (twenty-two years ago)
Seacrest with another show? Proof that the even the vacant can find work.
― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 12 January 2004 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)
It's heartening to know that in these enlightened times a half-man/half-weasel hybred can achieve professional success.
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 12 January 2004 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)
Dude, you already know about Josh Hartnett.
― Allyzay, Monday, 12 January 2004 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)
"hybred": wow I'm glad I didn't study either biology or spelling in college.
I love the fact that the original American Idol was hosted by a half-man/half-weasel and a half-man/half-guinea pig. It was like the Rikki Tikki Tavi and Fievel Show.
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 12 January 2004 21:41 (twenty-two years ago)
Merv Griffin has done more for his career than he did for Denny Terrio's, this seems unfair.
― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Monday, 12 January 2004 22:02 (twenty-two years ago)