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Post by doomsdaymachine on Oct 12, 2012 16:19:39 GMT -5
I stopped in 1991 after rap was starting to become popular and pop music was in serious decline. I was in radio at that time and was glad I did an oldies show. Hey, I did an oldies show in '91 myself! Best fun I ever had in commercial radio.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2012 17:50:03 GMT -5
I've been off and on since I moved to the space coast in late 1993. For the most part I stayed up with it until about 97/98. After that I quit listening until I learned how to record to the computer and edit the commercials out later which was late 2002.
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Post by mrjukebox on Oct 12, 2012 18:06:46 GMT -5
I began listening to "AT40" in May 1974-After Casey left ABC/Watermark on the weekend of 8/6/88,I was a liitle heartbroken-I did listen to Shadoe Stevens from 1988-1991 but it was obvious he was no Casey Kasem-In the late 90's,I listened to both the Hot AC & AC versions of Casey's show until July 2009 when he decided to retire.
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Post by blackbowl68 on Oct 12, 2012 19:40:13 GMT -5
I didn't so much as stop listening to AT40 in 1993, but more so was rather disgusted by its affiliate, WPLJ-FM. When hip hop and new jack swing were making their presence chartwise in the late 1980s, I felt the show was more worth listening to. However, this 'no-rap' station did its best to kill anything that had these elements in it and made the show sound phony. I was concurrently listening to Rick Dees' Weekly Top 40 & Casey's Top 40 along with AT40 from late 1990 til 1993 and I could here the difference in each. But Rick Dees' show & AT40 on PLJ sounded ridiculously watered down I eventually tuned them out.
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Post by woolebull on Oct 12, 2012 22:19:52 GMT -5
I didn't so much as stop listening to AT40 in 1993, but more so was rather disgusted by its affiliate, WPLJ-FM. When hip hop and new jack swing were making their presence chartwise in the late 1980s, I felt the show was more worth listening to. However, this 'no-rap' station did its best to kill anything that had these elements in it and made the show sound phony. I was concurrently listening to Rick Dees' Weekly Top 40 & Casey's Top 40 along with AT40 from late 1990 til 1993 and I could here the difference in each. But Rick Dees' show & AT40 on PLJ sounded ridiculously watered down I eventually tuned them out. Some of my favorite moments on AT were in 1990 when Digital Underground and Snap! fared better than on CT and Dees. I remember the time in 1989 when, "One" by Metallica debuted, or when "Banned In The USA" by Luke debuted...they were watershed moments for me and pop music. I loved the fact that songs like "Mind Playing Tricks On Me" were in the Top 40 at the same time Curtis Stigers was. That's what disappointed me when Billboard changed the format. In fact, when I think of chart positions, I never used Billboard after November 23, 1991. And I never listened to AT 40 again (that much). It was pretty much gone anyway from the area by the beginning of 1992.
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Post by dukelightning on Oct 13, 2012 12:07:43 GMT -5
I hit the wall in the spring of 1987 when my musical tastes changed from top 40 as it was called then to AOR and hard rock. So that is when I stopped listening to AT40. That said, I have collected many shows from the late 80s and 90s. Now my time period for shows that I will listen to is 1970 to around 2000.
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Post by Josh Joel's Top 40 on Oct 13, 2012 13:26:10 GMT -5
There several cases but I don't know if wanna nessisarily call it a wal on some but here's my story.
May 1987: When Saxon radio in the Suffolk, England decided to discontinue running AT40. I heard it again back in the Spring of 1988 on a different radio but with lots of static and reception wasn't crisp and clear.
September 1988 :After around September 1988 I couldn't really stomach the fact that it wasn't Casey's voice hosting the countdown, so I stopped listening consistently. At same time it's really not the real reason, it's because I started getting busy as a teenager. I was working almost everyday earning my own money in great amounts. So I didn't have much time to tune in to my radio as often as I did in the past.
1989: I returned to the States in February 1989. In March we moved to Rapid City, SD and KGGG aired AT40 for quite a while apparently. However in April they decided to go with Casey's Top 40, so there's no more AT40 for me to hear.
1992: I moved to Minneapolis, MN in October and loved the fact that they used the Monitor for rankings because much more rhythmic records were getting spins. After the brand new following year during the chart switch to "Top 40/ Mainstream", I stopped again. By the way, there wasn't one station in Minneapolis that aired Casey's Top 40 at the time when I moved here.
1999: When KDWB finally removed Rick Dees Top 40 and added AT40 (revamped & reborn) I started listening again.
2004: I became an angry radio listener after learning of Ryan Seacrest's take over, not loving it at all.
2009: Literally during the new year I started listening regularly, well recording it anyway. I'm still not a huge fan of the "modern format" of AT40 with the recurrent-less chart. It's all about acceptance of what we may not be able to change. So there you go.
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Post by bandit73 on Oct 15, 2012 22:39:30 GMT -5
I stopped listening in 1991 when AT40 stopped using the Hot 100. It was just a completely different show after that.
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Post by matt on Oct 16, 2012 15:24:25 GMT -5
I hit the wall around the end of the '90s when teen pop and hip hop/rap started to take over pop music (somewhere between 1998 and 2000?). I think the defining moment for me may have been hearing Casey do a story on Ol' Dirty Bastard sometime in the fall of 2000 or so. Somehow hearing a nearly 70-year old Casey talk about the ODB (along with all the crappy songs mixed into the 40) just didn't do it for me anymore...
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Post by lasvegaskid on Feb 1, 2019 14:30:57 GMT -5
Good topic; In phases. In early '85. After Madonna's Like A Virgin, pop music was never the same for me. There were still good patches here and there (I thought spring 88/ summer 89 had some great tunes). I still listened, though with decreasing frequency, to the show until there were no more local affiliates (circa 1990); no Internet in those days. Then I switched to current AC until the early 00s when that format became a dumping ground for CHR recurrents.
I read Billboard weekly until the late 90s when it became too hard to get to the library every week (kept it under lock & key and I got tired of having to ask the lazy librarians to see it) and a decreasing number of record stores carried a subscription. Couldn't afford my own $6/pop copy in those days. Plus in the late 90s more of the content became available online.
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