Sly Regis goes to FOX for New Years

In an apparent case of Seacrest envy, Regis Philbin will abandon longtime network ABC to host FOX TV's December 31st broacast.


from E! Onlne
Spurned by Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve a year after stepping in for the holiday show's then-ailing host, Philbin will ring in 2006 on Fox.
The 90-minute New Year's Eve Live, airing Dec. 31 from New York City's Times Square, will mark Philbin's first ever appearance on the 19-year-old network--a surprising factoid considering it seems impossible that the always-on Philbin could have been off somewhere.
"I'm very happy to be asked to welcome in the New Year on TV," Phibin said in a statement Wednesday.
Philbin was asked to welcome in the New Year on TV last year, too. Only the network doing the asking was ABC.
With Philbin at the helm, New Year's Rockin' Eve drew its best prime-time numbers in three years and handily beat Carson Daly's countdown show on NBC and Ryan Seacrest's on Fox.
But when plans for the latest New Year's Rockin' Eve were announced in August, Philbin wasn't in them. Seacrest was.