The big band remote, for the most part, did not survive (a victim of the concurrent start of the rock era), with two exceptions: "The Lawrence Welk Show", a big band-driven musical variety show, ran from 1951 until Welk's retirement in 1982 and in reruns from then onward (which eventually moved from commercial to public television syndication), and Guy Lombardo's annual New Year's Eve big-band remotes ran until 1979, two years after Lombardo's death.