This article lists five ways in which Dick Clark revolutionized the TV business. It does not include "Paying Mark Evanier low money."
Incidentally, a lot of pieces that have appeared about Dick in the last 24 hours have said or implied that his production company was responsible for The $10,000 Pyramid and its successors, the The $25,000 Pyramid and The $100,000 Pyramid and so on. I don't think so. I believe those were all done by Bob Stewart's company and Dick was just a hired hand on them, albeit (I'm sure) a well-compensated hand. He was a very good host for that show and it's interesting that they selected him since when it first went on, it was taped in New York and Dick was living in Los Angeles. He commuted to Manhattan and as I recall, it was something like this: He'd fly into N.Y. Friday night, stay over, tape shows all day Saturday, stay over, tape shows for much of the day Sunday then head for the airport to go home. He'd do that about half the weekends of the year and usually tape American Bandstand on the other weekends. You'd think, "Gee, they should have been able to find some New York-based personality to host Pyramid who would have been just as good as Dick Clark." But apparently not.