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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2012 8:14:31 GMT -5
That's possible, but it still doesn't make sense why they went back to an 8 hour show the next year. Radio stations probably weren't thrilled by this time with an 8 hour one anyway, so to not do one in 92 and go back to one in 93? I'm surprised there wasnt such an ire raised demanding they not do it. Then again, maybe that's why Orlando flipped the middle finger at them and only played the last 4 hours. I remember WPLJ in NYC got around the eight-hour issue by starting the 1993 year-end show at 4am. Yeah I've wondered why XL didn't start it at 2, but they didnt and just aired the last 4 hours. |
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Post by Hervard on Jan 6, 2012 12:27:04 GMT -5
Actually, for awhile there, R&R took only one week off over the holiday - one of those years being when Casey was using the R&R charts for his countdown. That was 1989/1990, although some stations used his Top 40 of the 1980s show on the weekend of January 6/7, so many people assumed that there were two weeks skipped (there was a regular weekly show for that weekend as well). My station aired both countdowns - the Top 40 of the 1980s on Christmas Day and the regular countdown the first weekend in January. I always thought that Casey only did a Top 40 of 1989 because of the fact that there was only a one-week break, but he probably would have done a Top 40 even if there was a two-week break (he did the same with the 1999/2000 break). As for countdowns that used R&R during the time there was only a one-week break (late 1985 through late 1989) some of them did a Top 40 of the year while others did a larger countdown over a period of two weeks and skipped one chart (usually the one that would have been used for the first week in January). Since both Rick Dees and John Leader (who hosted Countdown USA) did a Top 86 for the year 1986, as far as I know, no countdown show used the December 19 chart (which would have otherwise been used for the weekend of January 4). I had to piece that one together using the "last week" positions mentioned (only by Rick Dees - John Leader only mentioned the debut songs on January 10) and could only guess the droppers, which neither host mentioned. Wasn't 1/6/90 guest-hosted by Mark Elliot? That might be why some stations chose to run the top 40 of the 1980s show that week instead...to keep Casey's voice on the air. Mark was a GREAT guest host in my opinion, but why run a guest-host when you can have the regular host...with a special countdown, no less. It might have been but, since it's been 21 years (exactly!) I don't remember. But I do know that B96 ran the regular countdown the weekend of January 6-7 since they played the decade-end show at a special time (As mentioned earlier, on Christmas morning, which was a Monday that year. I think they ran it from 9-1, which was their normal time slot for the show on Sundays). Not sure how many other stations ran the regular show, but I remember back in early 2001, someone from another MB sent me a PM, asking me for positions from said January 6-7 chart - the droppers. since she was able to piece together most of the chart based on the LW positions, so that sounds like a station that ran the Christmas special in lieu of the regular countdown. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2012 14:40:37 GMT -5
Wasn't 1/6/90 guest-hosted by Mark Elliot? That might be why some stations chose to run the top 40 of the 1980s show that week instead...to keep Casey's voice on the air. Mark was a GREAT guest host in my opinion, but why run a guest-host when you can have the regular host...with a special countdown, no less. It might have been but, since it's been 21 years (exactly!) I don't remember. But I do know that B96 ran the regular countdown the weekend of January 6-7 since they played the decade-end show at a special time (As mentioned earlier, on Christmas morning, which was a Monday that year. I think they ran it from 9-1, which was their normal time slot for the show on Sundays). Not sure how many other stations ran the regular show, but I remember back in early 2001, someone from another MB sent me a PM, asking me for positions from said January 6-7 chart - the droppers. since she was able to piece together most of the chart based on the LW positions, so that sounds like a station that ran the Christmas special in lieu of the regular countdown. Best I remember WAPE in Jacksonville ran the Top 40 of 1989 in its normal slot, Sunday from 9am-1pm, and the regular weekly show the following week. It wasn't until the Internet and probably this message board that I found out there was another show for that weekend. If the station aired it also, I don't know when. |
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Post by cafy1000 on Jan 8, 2012 14:12:56 GMT -5
Thanks! I always wondered how WPLJ handled the top 100 of 1993, since they were basically burying the show at that point. Just curious, did they delete a lot of songs from that show?
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Post by Scott Lakefield on Jan 10, 2012 18:51:45 GMT -5
I honestly don't remember, but probably.
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