Casey's Top 40's spinoffs

[BROWNJB1]

Besides American Top 40, Casey's Top 40 has had some spinoffs of its own:

Casey's Countdown 1992-1998
Casey's Hot 20 1994-1998

[Scott Lakefield]

Don't forget "Casey's Biggest Hits," the daily 5-minute show (now known as "America's Top Hits")!

[Radioman]

It clearly shows up that Westwood One created the show(s) as it still runs until todate.
Something ABC could never do back in the old days.

[Scott Lakefield]

True...ABC should have made different countdowns for different formats...and then who knows how the whole AT40 story post-1988 would have played out.

Interestingly though, one of the thoughts they had was to have Casey do AC (and probably eventually HAC, too) shows only in 1988, and hire someone else (Shadoe, assumedly) to do the top 40.

My point in bringing that up is that had Casey not jumped networks, we might have lost out on 15 1/2 more years of Casey counting down the top 40.

[Deleted]

There was a point in Robs book that made sense. Its when someone says had we done an AC show, we woul have had to pay BB the rights fees for that too and would it have been worth it was the point. I dont know how many stations air AT10 and AT20 but one has to wonder if Premiere had to pay someone for the rights to air the show, would it be worth it for them to do the shows.

[Radioman]

admin said:

Interestingly though, one of the thoughts they had was to have Casey do AC (and probably eventually HAC, too) shows only in 1988, and hire someone else (Shadoe, assumedly) to do the top 40.

First point is: I don't believe there were any thoughts ever about bringing up a different format of the show. That's why Casey finally left and started a new project for a brighter future.
And second there was no format we know todate as "HOT AC" back in the 80's. So that kills your theory in this point, Scott.

[Radioman]

paul said:

There was a point in Robs book that made sense. Its when someone says had we done an AC show, we woul have had to pay BB the rights fees for that too and would it have been worth it was the point. I dont know how many stations air AT10 and AT20 but one has to wonder if Premiere had to pay someone for the rights to air the show, would it be worth it for them to do the shows.

Maybe FLEXIBILITY is the key for any problem in this world.
If they would have looked one step aside, they could have moved to Radio & Records as well, or at least for an AC formated show.
Rick Dees always did successful shows with R&R back in the 80's as well.
Nobody forced them to stay with BB, especially since there were only slight differences between the charts back then ( look AT40 / CT40 in 1989/90/91 )

[BrettVW]

Right, but Scott said "eventually" a Hot AC show, so I assume he meant when the format started to take off in '93/'94, right around when CH20 was born.

[Scott Lakefield]

radioman said:

First point is: I don't believe there were any thoughts ever about bringing up a different format of the show. That's why Casey finally left and started a new project for a brighter future.
And second there was no format we know todate as "HOT AC" back in the 80's. So that kills your theory in this point, Scott.

Incorrect. Check Rob's book. At least one ABC exec had suggested keeping Casey for an AC show and naming a new host for the CHR show.

And when I said "eventually," as Brett points out, I meant that had the rest of this equation played out, Casey may have started hosting a Hot AC show for ABC circa 1994...NOT 1988.