|
Post by Radioman on Apr 24, 2006 1:53:24 GMT -5
Additionally I'd like to mention, that WKMX is under a new ownership and they move their programme slowly but steady to a more CHR format. Over the past few months they played songs they would have never aired before. Usually KMX is a diehard Casey affiliate ...... and I wouldn't mind if the show and format will return someday in the not to far future. As it's always the same in this world: Not everything new is the best for everything ! WKMX dominated it's market for many years by far. If the new owner thinks they have to re-invent radio again, it could move the opposite direction.
|
|
|
Post by Radioman on Jun 23, 2005 0:57:44 GMT -5
Anyone else ?
|
|
|
Post by Radioman on Jun 22, 2005 0:59:22 GMT -5
Exactly, what you mention out here, Scott. And if you all listen carefully on Casey's announcement to a song from the past, he always makes a different betwenn ".....XX years ago ONE OF THE BIGGEST HITS IN THE LAND was ...." along with announcing ".....XX years ago THE NUMBER ONE HIT IN THE COUNTRY was ...." Using what was on the Hot AC Top 20 chart qualifies for the biggest hits at all. There are no hits played wich were bubbling under some chart level.
Also about some discussion on why the AC shows reference big Top 40/Pop -Hits from the past is very simpel: Because these hits qualify for AC radio of today. The Pop Listeners from Yesterday are the AC audience of Today. If Casey would make his show such simpel as just viewing the AC hits of all decades, the show would be going to die. Who wants to hear some Top 20 or Top 30 AC hit from about 25 years ago ?
|
|
|
Post by Radioman on Jun 21, 2005 1:24:13 GMT -5
Playing big hits that just fell off recently is part of the big recurrent role on AC and Hot AC radio outlets. Look at the charts - they still WANT AND PLAY big hits from recent months. Otherwise there wouldn't have been a recurrent rule needed for the charts, to keep the upper part fluent. Look at the recurrent section what hits you might have still on with a massive number of spins. If you want to play a big hit by Finger Eleven or Maroon 5 from 2004, you can have a big broadcasting window for many months, and maybe get it on a second time at the end of the year.
|
|
|
Post by Radioman on Jun 22, 2005 1:04:59 GMT -5
Sometimes there could be found an announcement wich seems unusable, or includes a big mistake or whatever, after Casey left the studios for the week.
Seems a possible reason for making an edit to a show.
Don't forget there are just humans producing and recording the shows. Why do trains collide ? Because the human engineer presses the wrong button .....
|
|
|
Post by Radioman on Jul 21, 2005 1:00:09 GMT -5
Maybe they mix around things a little more than in the back years. I guess there is no really big thing behind these notes within the show. Probably the same reason with the recent station mentions routine in the show. The show ( as for the past 15 years or so ) was never really heard "in the 50 states" or "around the world" ...... Actually it was heard on some places around the world, and in a majority of the 50 states. So if you will, the new phrase is more correct. And I believe the dropper listing won't seem so much important to them.
|
|
|
Post by Radioman on Jul 20, 2005 0:44:27 GMT -5
I believe with the overwhelming number of debuts on the shows, escpecially AT10, there is no urgent need to "list" the droppers. If you can speak of "listing" song titles, when 1 song get's off.
|
|
|
Post by Radioman on Jun 4, 2005 7:26:15 GMT -5
What exactly it is, that you're talkin about`? Just wondering ........
|
|
|
Post by Radioman on Nov 27, 2006 2:33:28 GMT -5
And like prophesy, a year and a half later, we seem to be hearing less and less of the 80's on AT20 for my taste. I still stand by my rants on radio stations that were done in this post, so God Bless XM & Sirius! Probably it is only natural, since the 80's are moving far away with every year to come. If the number of 80's hits would remain the same on HAC stations, you would soon have an Oldies radio. Don't forget that 80's ARE oldies todate. I can't believe it myself I'm that old these days to call my music "Oldie". On the other hand I can't confirm the number of 80's hits on AT20 has declined recently. I believe it's more a subjective feeling due to the variety of the music, than a real fact.
|
|
|
Post by Radioman on May 11, 2005 16:13:31 GMT -5
What about AT10 ? Maybe you should try it and eventually like it better. Isn't it some kind of obscure crap what they do with this show ( AT10 that is ) ? Playing some forgotten 60's or 70's track right along with a brand new chart song of today ? If it wouldn't be for Casey, that show would have been almost "unlistenable" . But it seems like a special genre of stations on the AC segments like what they are doing. At least the clear channel fraction likes it, other's AT20 AC would have been still alive.
I hope they won't touch AT20 in any way, just let it run how it is today. Some things you're now feeling about the extras within the show is the different segment schedule. Longer segments, fewer breaks makes you feel you hear to much extra's, and almost the same again. The show hasn't changed at all. They do what they do for almost 11 years: Paying tribut to the HOT AC format. It's a different question if you like that format or not. If they won't do what they wanted them to do, the show would be dying.
|
|
|
Post by Radioman on May 10, 2005 14:33:52 GMT -5
No, just fine as it is ! The producers do only what radio programmers on HAC outlets want them to do, just as they handle it on their own. BrettVW: If your friend would be a radio programmer, then his station would probably have only 3 listeners ......
|
|
|
Post by Radioman on Jan 26, 2005 18:06:51 GMT -5
The reply for an earlier post in this topic:
They can't even name the correct affiliates for each format of the show within the program. How could anybody think they could seperate the letters between AC and HAC show formats ? Lots of affiliate billboards are named in the wrong show. And also affiliates are named who dropped the show more than a year ago. Others never get attention on the show. So forget about seperating LDD's letters between the format. I think it's OK to have different songs for the LDD. It's the story and person behind, that counts. Not the song played for it.
|
|
|
Post by Radioman on Feb 16, 2007 2:29:45 GMT -5
That might happen someday. I'm definitely aware of it. It's very new, and wasn't available when we picked up AT10. We ran AT40 Flashback for years. Unfortunately, Premiere cancelled it. If it might happen in ADDITION to AT10, I'd be fine with that. Other's I don't want to miss AT10 on WQMA, since it became a regular to listen on Saturdays and the stream sounds really nice. I don't think it would be a very good idea to replace AT10 with the 70's version of AT40, even WQMA is an Oldies station. AT10 has a perfect mix for a wide variety of stations, from Oldies to current and Lite AC. The 70s version of AT40 is more specific and not that enjoyable to listen for 3 or 4 hours.
|
|
|
Post by Radioman on Jan 2, 2007 2:58:42 GMT -5
The reason why AT40 did only a Top 40 YE chart has nothing to do with R&R, but with the fact they did a second show with the Top 40 of the decade the other weekend. They have done it the same way at WW1 at the end of 1989. There was never an additional time like AT40 did from 83 til 93. They stayed on their 4 hours schedule, even after the move-over from WW1 to AMFM and Premiere.
|
|
|
Post by Radioman on Jan 2, 2007 3:05:48 GMT -5
Yesterday I went and got the pro version for my new PC. I also have two programs that were carried over from my old PC that don't record "what U hear" off the Internet anymore. Cool Edit 2000 which is still good on my laptop and the DAK wave recorder and editor. This ones is great when I edit the the tracks for burning Cd's. Just set a marker at the "split logo's" and editor separates the tracks. I have found problems with the Total Recorder. First I had to install the driver so I can record "what U hear" and things went downhill after that. After 15 minutes of recording the top 100 the signal started "skipping". I thought it was the XM's signal but I went to home set and it was fine. Next I tried a different source and the same thing happened without using the recorder. Also now the music sounds "tinny". The next thing was I un-installed Total Recorder and things went back to normal. I do have both 1976 & 1980 countdowns from WDRC on reel to reel that I transfered to MP3/CD. As someone mentioned above: Total Recorder is a system killer ! There are many components who don't work correct when TR is installed. Nobody knows in detail wich ones they are. So it is always a 50:50 chance you might be getting happy with that one or better not install it.
|
|