AT10 - Top 30 of 2004?

[Hervard]

Did this show even air this weekend? My station, which usually runs the show Saturday night, pre-empted it with Christmas music, which is understandable, but someone on another message board said that his station usually runs it on Sunday mornings and it was pre-empted, and not with Christmas music (I assume he meant regular programming). Anyway, that leads me to believe that Casey was in error when he said on last week's show that the Top 30 of 2004 would be run "next week", which of course is this week. So I was wondering if any stations ran the year-end show this weekend.

[MEF]

Yes, the AT10 show this weekend was the top 30 songs of 2004. WNIC in Detroit was the earliest feed I've heard AT10, since they air the show 6 a.m. on Sunday, which was the top 30 of 2004.

Other stations, that also aired AT10's Top 30 of 2004, were WLTM in Atlanta and CFQR in Montreal. Both these stations also air AT10 on Sunday.

I've noticed all the Saturday stations that carry AT10, did not air AT10 at all. WRVF in Toledo, WLIT in Chicago, as well as KKCW and WMRS played Christmas Music instead of AT10. (Even OZ FM did not air AT20 on Christmas morning.)

Cars 108 in Flint, replayed the AT10 Top 30 Christmas songs on 12/26.

So, it depends, which station decided to air AT10 However, the year end show should have aired the weekend of 12/25-26/2004.

If you want another chance to listen to the AT10 Top 30 of 2004, try www.wlht.com/pages/at10.html

WLHT in Grand Rapids, MI the last few years will replay the year end countdown, on the final hours of December 31st. WLHT does webcast. So try at 9 p.m. EST on 12/31.

Casey said, the new years weekend of AT10 will be the 1st regular survey of 2005. For AT20, it will be the 2nd half of the top 60 of 2004.

[Hervard]

MEF said:

Casey said, the new years weekend of AT10 will be the 1st regular survey of 2005. For AT20, it will be the 2nd half of the top 60 of 2004.

You see, that didn't make sense. Premiere knew that stations that usually ran the show on Saturday wouldn't be able to play it unless it was a Christmas show. They should have just had a random Christmas music show, like they did in late November and early December. That way, stations that ran the show on Saturday could air that one and stations that ran it on Sunday would have the option of skipping it. Then, since all stations would be done with their Christmas music sweep by January 1, they'd all be able to run it. Oh well, at least next year, since Christmastime spans the entire weekend, they'll most likely run a Christmas show that weekend and the Top 30 of 2004 on New Year's weekend.

[Deleted]

I totally agree with you Chris, this has been an odd year of countdown airings. Dees concluded his Top 100 this past weekend, AT10 did theirs as well; while AT20 and AT40 started theirs and will conclude next weekend(what would seemingly be the correct weekend to finish up) along with ACC's end of the year Top 50.

[Radioman]

You forgot about a small, but important fact on this:

Dees is leaving Premiere; So he MUST be finished with his yearend special a week earlier. By January First he's no longer a "Premiere Talent" and already with the new syndicator.

AT10 has a problem with the calendar of 2004; Since christmas day is a Saturday, almost no stations would play the show, even it would be a christmas music programme. No good day for hosted programmes on AC radio !
Would should they do ? Another christmas music show ?
Many stations air the programme on Sunday ( Boxing Day) were it's almost too late for christmas music.
Starting a single regular show again between Christmas and the Yearend show ?
So the oddity is not with the shows, it's the oddity of the AC stations that makes things running this way.

And last but not least: The stations are allowed to run or re-run the YE-show on New Years Eve and New Years Day. This is and always has been a regular for yearend programmes.
So might listen to these stations later on, if they haven't aired the YE AT10 yet.

[MEF]

Bummer, WLHT in Grand Rapids decided to air the regular nightly John Tesh show on 12/31.