Ryan Seacrest is staying put on the red carpet… and Seacrest remains committed to his other long-running projects, too, including radio via his $25 million deal with Clear Channel. In fact, he’s in talks about taking on an increased role at the company, which would entail him helping to build out more multiplatform programming — with Clear Channel and the iHeart brand — that he would host and produce via his production company. Of his lengthy morning radio block that has him in the studio daily, he says: "it’s the engine that drives everything else."