Stations that used to butcher AT40

[bandit73]

What stations used to butcher AT40 the worst back in its heyday?

My nomination would be Q-102 Cincinnati.

First I noticed it was when they removed George Michael's "I Want Your Sex" from the countdown every week. It only got worse from there. There was one week when Q-102 deleted an LDD for no apparent reason. There was another week when they started AT40 a half-hour late, then cut out all the stories and LDD's so it would end on time.

When "Going Back To Cali" by LL Cool J was in the countdown, Q-102 usually added a bunch of goofy noises to it. Another song that ran into trouble was "Personal Jesus" by Depeche Mode. The first week it was on the countdown, Q-102 cut into it and skipped the rest of the song. (It sounded like the record skipped, but I think it was intentional.)

Also, there was one week in January 1990 when Q-102 played the previous week's episode instead of the right show. (I also think this was intentional.)

[Caseyfan4everRyanfanNever]

WMC FM 100 in Memphis always cut "I Want Your Sex" by George Michael from AT40. I remember seeing the song on the chart but never heard it on AT40 until I moved to the Kansas City area later that year. After AT40 was picked up by 98.9, also in Memphis, they continued the butcher job--the biggest victim was "Humpty Dance" on the 1990 year end AT40 show. Meanwhile FM 100 had replaced AT40 with Casey's Top 40 and in 1992, they replaced CT40 with Rick Dees. I remember the Weekly Top 40's 1992 year end show had a lot of songs removed by FM 100.

[Deleted]

Call me nuts but I dont consider one song or one segment removal over 1 song to be a butcher job. A butcher job is when a certain station for example...oh lets say in around 1993 or so decides to become something of a Hot AC station but is so confused it doesn't know what it is or why....lets also for example say that this problem reflects in the community to this day as they don't know whether they are an NFL city or not....but anyway, as I said this is all example here.....they would then take the show, remove the songs they find questionable and insert it with parts from previous programs. The audio quality would be so awful it would sound like it had been dubbed to a tape, then dubbed from that tape to another, and from that one to another. Then, on weeks a guest host filled in for the first time ever, perhaps in July of that year, they would just take a song out, play the one they inserted from with no voiceover, and once it ended you would hear the original song start playing in the background and the guest host identify himself. And this practive continued week after week for several years. That would hypothetically be a butcher job. But of course...thats just my example.

Go Jags!

[Hervard]

Sept 8, 2011 10:09:23 GMT -5 Caseyfan4everRyanfanNever said:

WMC FM 100 in Memphis always cut "I Want Your Sex" by George Michael from AT40. I remember seeing the song on the chart but never heard it on AT40 until I moved to the Kansas City area later that year. After AT40 was picked up by 98.9, also in Memphis, they continued the butcher job--the biggest victim was "Humpty Dance" on the 1990 year end AT40 show. Meanwhile FM 100 had replaced AT40 with Casey's Top 40 and in 1992, they replaced CT40 with Rick Dees. I remember the Weekly Top 40's 1992 year end show had a lot of songs removed by FM 100.

Actually, Rick skipped a lot of songs on the 1992 show, just giving the title and artist and position on the chart. Seems kind of silly for the station to edit out even more.

As for "The Humpty Dance" on AT40, that was also not the station, but AT40 itself. They edited down "The Humpty Dance" to about a minute and a half, due to its lyrical content.

[Caseyfan4everRyanfanNever]

On their broadcast of the Weekly Top 40 1992 year end, FM 100 went as far as removing any mention that songs judged offensive by its management, even removing Rick's announcement of the title and position of those songs. So, they did their share of editing too. Shortly after that, FM 100 dropped Rick Dees and did not air countdown shows (except for their own year end shows) at all until the late 1990s, when they would broadcast American Top 40 HAC until 2006, replacing it with the HAC version of the Weekly Top 40 which they still broadcast.

I remember back in 1993 or so when someone called FM 100 and requested a rap song (I think it was "Rump Shaker").The request was live and they were told that the song was not in the station's library and, therefore, could not be played. The announcer said nothing else except "sorry" but, afterwards, FM 100 made a point of announcing continuously that they played "no rap or hard stuff"