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Post by pzimm7700 on Sept 27, 2007 16:24:52 GMT -5
What exactly is a "My" station? And what makes some of the radio shows/DJ's not fit those channels? Is it a jukebox type station with no personality?
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Post by pzimm7700 on Mar 9, 2008 17:20:01 GMT -5
Not sure where you live Robert, but in the USA Daylight Savings time started today. So that may be why the time is off. I believe every other week with CFLY has always been correct based on Eastern time.
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Post by pzimm7700 on Nov 5, 2007 4:02:10 GMT -5
Well, if you go the "20 The Countdown Magazine" site, it has a station in Jacksonville listed as one of their affiliates and they dropped the show in 2002. What's worse is the station actually doesn't exist anymore!
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Post by pzimm7700 on Oct 15, 2007 15:10:30 GMT -5
Hot AC may be evolving at the moment. Some HAC stations are flipping formats, leaning Pop, and/or dropping the 80s from their playlists. AT20 will have to try to find some solution if they want to keep those HAC stations that are dropping 80s songs. Again, I don't think AT20 can unless their stations sound like something AT20 not only musically but also in style can fit on. I want to make something clear if it isn't. I love listening to AT20 and love hearing Casey Kasem, moreso than I will ever care about Ryan Seacrest. I just have come to accept things have changed, and Caseys shows dont fit the HAC format for many any longer. That said, I would not have ever wanted the shows to evolve into something more modern. Because his show is pretty much dry and is just a show about music, it has a certain charm. Unlike Dees who because he tries to be hip and isn't comes off sounding horrible. Casey and his shows at least have their dignity.
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Post by pzimm7700 on Oct 10, 2007 14:42:32 GMT -5
Personally I think a lot of this is overreaction, but what do I know. I think Premiere created AT40 HAC for a two fold reason, 1.) was Dees's contract not being renewed, but 2.)because as Ryan's current audience gets older he will become quite probably to the countdown world in 10-20 years what Casey Kasem has been to us. He may never have the following Kasem has because radio has changed, but to those who care about countdowns he will be their guy. I can draw a football analogy to this, the younger generation looks at Joe Buck and sees "the voice of the NFL on TV," for me that is Pat Summerall...always has been, always will be.
Plus as stations do different things to be considered modern, the old countdown style of Casey Kasem doesn't fit anymore as Brett said. AT40 HAC w/Ryan fits better on those stations. So Premiere could do one of two things, they could let the affiliates leave and go with clueless Dees who is well oast his usefulness on the radio but out of a sense of loyalty and the PD's not caring would get a lot of stations, or they could eye the future with their top star of today and create a new show to serve that audience. As unpopular as the decision seems to many, I think it was the right move.
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Post by pzimm7700 on Mar 28, 2008 12:08:15 GMT -5
I remember thanks to that Pop Music Archive site knowing American Top 40 was returning and also that Casey would hosting it. I also remember the very horrible placeholder "Top 40 Countdown" produced by Westwood One that last month knowing they were done the last weekend in March. I did like the guy who hosted it the last week though.
No one at my local affiliate would answer the email I sent back then, but I asked if they would pick up the new AT40 show figuring they probably would, but not really knowing for sure whether Westwood One would continue to produce a show and try to find a replacement and also knowing how many other boneheaded decisions the local affiliate had made, I wasn't 100% until I heard Casey. And even that was an on edge moment. Not sure whether there was an intro saying "now, AMFM radio networks proudly presents American Top 40" on that show or not, but if there was, the local station didn't air it. It started with "10....9.....8.....7..."
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Post by pzimm7700 on Feb 23, 2008 6:53:48 GMT -5
Wow, I see what you guys mean about the first few years of the decade getting higher rankings than the later years. Didn't realize it was THAT one sided.
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Post by pzimm7700 on Feb 22, 2008 4:38:39 GMT -5
I asked Rob Drukee about that in the chat room years ago, he said the reason is the people in charge of the show felt radio stations and listeners would not want to hear an 80's countdown, so they didn't do one.
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Post by pzimm7700 on Feb 17, 2008 12:02:23 GMT -5
I do not regularly listen to either of the hisoric AT40 weekly shows but I will do my best to tell you in my experience in this hellhole of Jacksonville and the crappy stations around here what happens. First off, about the extras, not totally sure about this but extras are only the optional segment, correct? If so, then when they are not aired you really aren't missing anything. I am someone who hates the way they are produced so if they never aired it would be no loss for me. Second, I believe according to Scott,the show is downloaded every week and is not sent out on CD. Third, about the screwup, well, it could be one of two things. A lot of stations use an automatic downloading system. This next part may or may not happen, it's just kind of bits and pieces I have heard and put together, whether correctly or not I dont know. But I think when these automatically download, they also automatically replace the existing show in the timeslot that it is set up to do. So, if some system error occurs, something triggers the download to stop, or if they entire show is not uploaded at the time the download stops it doesn't get those files obviously. And if no one goes behind to check it, it doesn't get caught. And in most cases, when these shows air now there is someone who really doesn't care monitoring it or no one is there at all and it is automated. Plus, even if there was someone there who noticed the mistake, what could they really do about it? It's not like the days of getting 4 CD's and LP's when you could go to an emergency commercial break, PSA, or station ID while you got said records or LP's to the right place. I have heard all kinds of errors here based on this type of thing. The local CC owned Top 40 station would air the correct Rick Dees show one week, a repeat the next, a new one the next, repeat that one next, play half of the wrong week the next, etc. Finally I emailed to ask about it when I saw this was a recurring issue and low and behold it was a computer issue they got corrected. Then, there is local country legendary screwup channel WQIK. Who would screw up ACC weekly when I used to listen to the show by having scratchy segments (and before anyone ask, it was the same point in every weeks show), or they would cut it off at midnight whether the show was done or not...and I don't mean closing credits, I mean #3 could be playing because the guy in the booth until 8pm decided to play music beyond 8pm and the show was now running over and they fade the show out. And then there was the infamous December 31, 2005 - January 1, 2006 debacle. Rather than tell it all I will just post the link to it here, just read Paul's posts: at40fg.proboards12.com/index.cgi?board=generalmusic&action=display&thread=1136034120&page=2if you want to read all the hilarity of that day read the whole thread....and here is some more fallout from that local radio station incident: at40fg.proboards12.com/index.cgi?board=generalmusic&action=display&thread=1136504151
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Post by pzimm7700 on Feb 16, 2008 22:16:09 GMT -5
I like the more melodic versions that were used in the mid-late 80's. I hope that's clear, I dont know any other way to describe them. Not the ones that were common during that era, but the ones they would use occasionally instead of the usual.
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Post by pzimm7700 on Feb 16, 2008 5:59:42 GMT -5
1984 - after church in my dad's car, my sister turned on what I think was Y-103 in Jacksonville and we listened in there. I remember "Thriller" was on.
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Post by pzimm7700 on Feb 10, 2008 16:39:18 GMT -5
Are they even sent out on CD anymore? I figured the shows are only available via download, and from all the different stations I have heard since the optional segments were added, it appears to be a separate track.
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Post by pzimm7700 on Feb 10, 2008 12:15:29 GMT -5
I doubt it, there is no advertising on that track they have to account for. So, I doubt Premiere really cares.
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Post by pzimm7700 on Jan 14, 2008 16:46:07 GMT -5
Actually, on the 7/4/92 show, most of the thematic elements (save for a few holdover jingles from the 1989 package) were changed, and Shadoe mentioned it at the top of the show. Yes, changing from what I felt like personally were great jingles that induced feelings of importance, to jingles that made me feel like the show belonged on Saturday morning at 6am.....and it was.
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Post by pzimm7700 on Feb 18, 2008 16:22:42 GMT -5
I don't know if I have ever asked you this directly, but since I dont know if I have or not, I will now. So you would rather have AT40 die when Casey leaves for good then have the show carry on to a new audience in a format and style they enjoy? For the record, I don't like that idea at all. And I feel Premiere has been very smart in their way of handling both hosts, and programs....unlike ABC who has made the same mistake now twice.
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