NEW YORK (AP) – Ryan Seacrest remembers the advice Dick Clark gave him about hosting ABC’s “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve”: it’s for the people who are staying in. Seacrest says Clark told him that the show is about "bringing the party into people’s living rooms.” Seacrest says his goal is for people watching in their pajamas at home to feel like they’re part of the action. Tonight’s entertainment includes Carrie Underwood, the Jonas Brothers, Thomas Rhett and Lenny Kravitz.

SYDNEY (AP) – One of the first celebrations of the new year was in Sydney, with Robbie Williams leading a singalong at Sydney Harbor. Lisa of Blackpink performed in Bangkok. More than two million people are expected to watch Anitta perform at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro. In New York, Carrie Underwood, TLC and the Jonas Brothers will perform in Times Square. American Samoa will be among the last to ring in 2025.

BRENTWOOD, Tenn. (AP) – Larry Gatlin of the Gatlin Brothers has been interrupted on stage many a time in his career, but an interruption at a Jimmy Carter campaign event really sticks in his mind. Gatlin says the band was in the middle of their first song when they saw the Ku Klux Klan had shown up with burning crosses. Gatlin says it’s something he will never forget. He says he was friends with Carter all these years because Carter was so unassuming that you would never know that he had ever been president.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) – A new documentary about Avicii (ah-VEE’-chee) starts off with a story that Avicii himself said should be included if there’s ever a documentary about him. Director Henrik Burman says he found an interview in which Avicii tells an interviewer about how he used to be a bully when he was 6 or 7 years old and realized he needed to change his life. Much of the film “Avicii – I’m Tim” is narrated in Avicii’s voice, pulled from archival interviews. “Avicii – I’m Tim” is available starting today on Netflix.

BANGOR, Maine (AP) – New owners will take over Stephen King’s rock radio station in Bangor, Maine, and keep the format. Greg Hawes and Jeff Solari of Rock Lobster Radio Group have bought WKIT-FM from King. King announced earlier this month that WKIT and his two other radio stations would stop broadcasting as of today.

Former CNN reporter Aaron Brown, who reported live as 9/11 happened, has died. CNN quotes Brown’s family as saying he died Sunday at the age of 76. A cause of death was not given. Brown worked in Minneapolis radio and Seattle TV before he was the first anchor of ABC’s “World News Now.” Brown was on the air at CNN reporting from a Manhattan rooftop as the 9/11 attacks were happening. When the second tower fell, Brown responded with, “Good lord. There are no words.” His reporting won him the Edward R. Murrow Award. Brown left during a shakeup at CNN in 2005. He taught for years at Arizona State University. He returned to TV in 2008 for the PBS show “Wide Angle.”