questio about "Hit list."

[bcaf1977]

Hi,

I was wondering if anbody knew the history of the syndicated top 30 program entitled, Hit list. It was a 3 hour CHR top 30 countdown.
Here is what I do know:
Adam Curry started hosting it Thanksgiving weekend of 1991. I used to listen to it on WHTZ-100 in NYC on Sundays from 8-11 pm. WHTZ dropped Hit list sometime in early 1994. By early 1995, Elvis Duran was hosting Hit list and Z-100 was airing it again. What happened to Adam Curry?
Elvis Duran and Elliot continued to host hit list until 1998 when z-100 dropped it. WHTZ actually aired it up to three times a weekend. I have not heard of it since. Can anyone fill in the blanks?

Brian

[pzimm7700]

The show dissapeared. It bounced around airing at different stations in markets I lived in. I know in 91-early 93 it aired on WAPE in Jacksonville on Sunday nights at 10. 99.9 Kiss FM in Daytona aired it for the last half of 1993 and into very early 1994 Saturday mornings from 6-9 before they dropped it for Rick Dees. When I lived in Titusville (I moved there in late 1993), the show aired on WA1A Saturday morning from 7-10 I believe and aired there through 1995 sometime. And then when I was visiting Orlando after moving back to Jacksonville in October 1995, I heard it on XL 106.7 again Saturday mornings at 7.

They tried to make the Hitlist relevant at various points. First with Adam Curry being the host, but then later by trying to fool people into thinking the show was live. I remember the intro's and outro's for segements being "hitlist....live"

Personally I hated the Elvis Duran version. Adam Curry's was ok, but the edits were awful. You could tell he was almost reading a sentence or two, cutting, and starting the next sentence. It was terrible in that respect.

The show was produced from the Entertainment Radio Network and in the internets younger but beginning to expand days of 96-97, you could actually listen to the show online every week from ERN's website.

[mrjukebox]

I remember listening to the "Hit List"-In my opinion,it was a poor man's "AT40".

[shadster]

You pretty much have the entire history right there. Originally called "Adam Curry's Top30 Hitlist" Adam left the show and Elvis took over, Elvis was already hosting "Hitline USA". Patty Steele joined him an they called it Hitlist live. I believe Adam's excuse was he was trying to start up his own network/company or somethin. I believe the show stopped sometime after that and Elvis an Elliott tried to restart it/revitalize it but it just didn't take off and was cancelled. It was recorded as I understand it @z100 NY, so naturally it was always on that station. It is now defunct.

I have maybe 2 copies of this show, once w/ adam an once w/ elvis

[JasonWQMA]

Only thing I could really add to the history here is that there wasn't a break between Elvis & Patti and Elvis & Elliott. The last date with Patti was the weekend of 10/14/96. Elliott was on the very next week which was the weekend of 10/21/96. There was no mention of the changeover on the show itself or even on the cue sheets sent to stations!! (Unless it was on some pages I didn't get - I got these shows secondhand...)

I have probably more than a hundred of these shows from original CD's between 1995 and 1997.

It was no AT40, but for what it was, a lighthearted countdown show aimed at younger listeners, I thought it hit its mark. They tried the comedy route but in a quick sarcastic tone closer to what local DJ's were doing without the lame prerecorded morning show like bits like Rick Dees.