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Post by laura on Dec 15, 2019 22:25:02 GMT -5
It would be nice if they were to do a year-end countdown but I doubt that will ever happen. The only way other way around it is if they just scrap the current order once 2020 begins and start a new one to avoid too many carry-overs. It would make sense considering it's a new decade.
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Post by mkarns on Dec 16, 2019 0:03:06 GMT -5
If there aren't any specials on 12-27-19 or 1-3-20, I think the next year featured will be 1982. If the Countdown continues with odd years in 2020, 1989 might be featured once again! 1987 would not be feasible since 1986 is being played this Friday. 1985 wouldn't make much sense since 1984 was just featured as well. 1983 could work if 1982 isn't played later this month. 1981 wouldn't work either since 1980 is featured this weekend. I just don't understand why the VJs don't do a Countdown of the yearend since they apparently have an agreement with Billboard to utilize their charts. They could do a Top 40 for one week, or split the Top 80 into two shows. Any agreement, thoughts? 12/25/82 would be neat as that's a countdown that Casey never did (AT40's year end show spanned two weeks then, for the last time in the era Premiere replays.) 1/2/82 could also happen for the first weekend of 2020, or we could get the same thing from 12/26/81. However, I recall a few years ago when they did December 1985 and January 1986 back to back at the turn of the year, with most of the same songs. I'd like it if they did December 1989, but more likely 1989 will wait for January yet again (at least we're likely not getting December 1988 shortly before it.)
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Post by benster72 on Dec 16, 2019 7:46:15 GMT -5
1986 is going to be the final Big 40 of the year. Jim Ryan announced that 80's on 8 will be counting down the Top 100 songs from all 10 years of the decade, and I saw it advertised as the Big 1000 Countdown. The top 100 of 1980 will debut on Friday, December 27 and it will run until January 6, 2020. I am going to assume the 6.5 hour yearly top 100 countdown will replay a couple times a day, and all 10 countdowns will be available On Demand. 1000 songs counted down by the VJ's. What an opportunity for some big-time errors!
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Post by laura on Dec 16, 2019 9:44:10 GMT -5
So they're doing all 10 years? This ought to be interesting. So that means the first regular one of 2020 will be on the 10th.
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Post by doofus67 on Dec 16, 2019 10:13:32 GMT -5
Jim Ryan announced that 80's on 8 will be counting down the Top 100 songs from all 10 years of the decade, and I saw it advertised as the Big 1000 Countdown...1000 songs counted down by the VJ's. What an opportunity for some big-time errors! I just went to the 80s on 8 Facebook page. The post about the Big 1000 was there, and so was a comment from Jim Ryan. Knowing he's not just some random person with a Facebook account, I jumped in and wrote, "The top 1000 is a great idea, Jim. A mistake-free top 1000 would be outstanding! Can you guys pull it off?" I'm not expecting a response.
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Post by benster72 on Dec 16, 2019 12:35:51 GMT -5
So they're doing all 10 years? This ought to be interesting. So that means the first regular one of 2020 will be on the 10th. Good point, Laura. Jim Ryan is saying that the last 1989 Top 100 will end the morning of Monday, January 6th at 6AM EST, then it will be a Mark Goodman morning show. The first regular 2020 show will then be January 10, and by doing so, they could pick just about any year (except maybe 1985 and 1987) and avoid the dreaded overlap from the prior year. Early 1982 would be a probable start to the year, as 1982 was missed at the end of this year, and we have not heard late-1981 in a while.
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Post by benster72 on Dec 16, 2019 12:36:47 GMT -5
Jim Ryan announced that 80's on 8 will be counting down the Top 100 songs from all 10 years of the decade, and I saw it advertised as the Big 1000 Countdown...1000 songs counted down by the VJ's. What an opportunity for some big-time errors! I just went to the 80s on 8 Facebook page. The post about the Big 1000 was there, and so was a comment from Jim Ryan. Knowing he's not just some random person with a Facebook account, I jumped in and wrote, "The top 1000 is a great idea, Jim. A mistake-free top 1000 would be outstanding! Can you guys pull it off?" I'm not expecting a response. You may not get a response from Jim, but I gave your comment a "like"!
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Post by doofus67 on Dec 16, 2019 12:45:42 GMT -5
I just went to the 80s on 8 Facebook page. The post about the Big 1000 was there, and so was a comment from Jim Ryan. Knowing he's not just some random person with a Facebook account, I jumped in and wrote, "The top 1000 is a great idea, Jim. A mistake-free top 1000 would be outstanding! Can you guys pull it off?" I'm not expecting a response. You may not get a response from Jim, but I gave your comment a "like"! Thanks!
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Post by laura on Dec 16, 2019 12:52:25 GMT -5
So they're doing all 10 years? This ought to be interesting. So that means the first regular one of 2020 will be on the 10th. Good point, Laura. Jim Ryan is saying that the last 1989 Top 100 will end the morning of Monday, January 6th at 6AM EST, then it will be a Mark Goodman morning show. The first regular 2020 show will then be January 10, and by doing so, they could pick just about any year (except maybe 1985 and 1987) and avoid the dreaded overlap from the prior year. Early 1982 would be a probable start to the year, as 1982 was missed at the end of this year, and we have not heard late-1981 in a while. The only bad thing is that it would more than likely be 1/9/82, which was featured twice in a row. I would say 1981 in order to avoid that one and the 1989 from being used again, even though a good number of the songs were featured on this week's chart, so that's other unfortunately viable option. That being said, 1982 should definitely pop up sometime that month.
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Post by Michael1973 on Dec 16, 2019 13:12:42 GMT -5
The year-end week-long special will be fun to listen to, however it likely means that once again we will not get a January 1988 show.
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Post by laura on Dec 16, 2019 18:40:13 GMT -5
Also with them using Billboard, the year-ends for 1980-1984 will be different from the ones used on AT40, where they used their own chart for those years. Not to mention we'll get the closest we can get to having the 1988 and 1989 year-end charts aired.
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Post by jgve1952 on Dec 19, 2019 7:21:07 GMT -5
Happy holidays to all! Is it likely that 12-27 will be 1980, 12-28 to be 1981, etc., until 1989 is played 10 days later? Also is that the only programming that will occur with repeats like Sunday morning when the Countdown is on at 6 am and back-to-back repeat at 9 am? Thanks to anyone who responds so I get my "80's groove" on! Jeff
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Post by benster72 on Dec 19, 2019 11:06:26 GMT -5
Happy holidays to all! Is it likely that 12-27 will be 1980, 12-28 to be 1981, etc., until 1989 is played 10 days later? Also is that the only programming that will occur with repeats like Sunday morning when the Countdown is on at 6 am and back-to-back repeat at 9 am? Thanks to anyone who responds so I get my "80's groove" on! Jeff With the countdowns starting at 9PM on Friday, and ending at 6AM on Monday morning 10 days later, I have a feeling the 70 hours of programming is going to run back-to-back and then repeat itself, as opposed to being featured a year a day. If that is the case, 1980 would only have 3 hours to be squeezed in, or 1989 would be squeezed out on the final day. We should be able to get through the first run of all ten years in the first 2.9 days, and all ten years should be On Demand also.
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Post by laura on Dec 20, 2019 11:35:23 GMT -5
I wonder if there will be a promo for it at the end of this week's show or it will just go back to regular programming without any announcement once it ends.
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Post by laura on Dec 26, 2019 18:43:10 GMT -5
Happy holidays to all! Is it likely that 12-27 will be 1980, 12-28 to be 1981, etc., until 1989 is played 10 days later? Also is that the only programming that will occur with repeats like Sunday morning when the Countdown is on at 6 am and back-to-back repeat at 9 am? Thanks to anyone who responds so I get my "80's groove" on! Jeff With the countdowns starting at 9PM on Friday, and ending at 6AM on Monday morning 10 days later, I have a feeling the 70 hours of programming is going to run back-to-back and then repeat itself, as opposed to being featured a year a day. If that is the case, 1980 would only have 3 hours to be squeezed in, or 1989 would be squeezed out on the final day. We should be able to get through the first run of all ten years in the first 2.9 days, and all ten years should be On Demand also. Has it been confirmed that that's how it's going to work?
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