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Post by nenad on Oct 31, 2006 6:16:05 GMT -5
...and from 1990 'til 1995 (for those with satellite) you could hear it on VoA Europe - in superb CD-quality!! (I was unfortunatelly stup*D enough not to record the shows off VoA, hehe...)! No CH20 was aired in Europe as far as I know, and none of stations mentioned above aired CBH either. I believe there is at least one other person in Europe who recorded most of these broadcasts. But to my knowledge Blue Danube Radio was a local affiliate, not broadcasting all over Europe. Well, there must've been few of us (fans in Europe)! Especially in central Europe... And, true, BDR was a local affiliate heard in Austria, Slovenia, parts of Checz Republic, Croatia, Swiss... In mid 90's they started broadcasting via satellite, so the station was available throughout the whole Europe... |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2006 17:15:32 GMT -5
I believe there is at least one other person in Europe who recorded most of these broadcasts. But to my knowledge Blue Danube Radio was a local affiliate, not broadcasting all over Europe. Well, there must've been few of us (fans in Europe)! Especially in central Europe... And, true, BDR was a local affiliate heard in Austria, Slovenia, parts of Checz Republic, Croatia, Swiss... In mid 90's they started broadcasting via satellite, so the station was available throughout the whole Europe... Broadcasting via satellite? You guys had Satellite radio in the 90's?  ?? |
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Post by shadster on Oct 31, 2006 21:31:20 GMT -5
I think he means it was offered as a radio channel via their satelite TV subscription
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Post by nenad on Nov 1, 2006 4:22:20 GMT -5
Yes, Paul, in Europe, satelllite broadcasting was affordable (I bought my old system for round $150 in 1992) and became really popular in early/mid 90's. At that time it was only analogue broadcasting, but with a decent dish and reciever, good cassetterecorder or any other recording unit, f.e. stereo VCR connected to HI-FI, the results were simply astonishing comparing to good old FM... This (of course) improved when digital broadcasting was introduced in late 90's. And the best thing about it was that most of the radio channels were free!!! (VoA and BDR included)...  The only thing that had to be solved was how to turn the dish from one satellite to the other, cause VoA and BDR were not on the same satellite. But, anything is possible with a good eye and a strong hand ;D |
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Post by Radioman on Nov 3, 2006 2:06:52 GMT -5
@paul YES, there was a civilisation outside the United States in the dark ages of the 20th. century ! Satellite Radio in Europe was officially launched in late 1984 (yes Eighty-Four) and VoA-Europe was one of it's first participants. The networks main reason for using the satellite feed was the maintenance of it's various cable outlets in many different european cities. So naturally, the quality of it's broadcasting must be the same than the usual FM cable radio quality ( wich was outstanding until todate ). nenadProbably you had not switch dish positions too often, because if BDR started satellite broadcast in the late 90's ( I cannot confirm this information ), at that same time VoA was already on a strong downforce due to US congress cutbacks of their financials. VoA ended most of it's syndicated shows in 1995; Later in 1996 they became VoA Express, wich was moved into the VoA worldwide programme feed. |
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Post by nenad on Nov 3, 2006 4:34:05 GMT -5
@ Radioman
True, BDR came on satellite air during introduction of DVB in late 90s. At that point VoA already stopped airing CT40 (last broadcast was April 8'th 1995)!
In my post, I was mostly refering to CT40 affiliates: VoA and BDR.
There were lots of other stations airing AT40 (f.e. few Dutch and Spanish radio stations) or WT40 (Portugese station) as well...
I switched satellites few times a week... I got the dish primarily to listen to VoA and watch Croatian television.
Switching positions was not such a problem for me - as I live(d) in apartment, and the dish was only 90cm and mounted on balcony wall...
So I developed nice manual principle, marking different positions on the pipe: so I just needed to run outside for a few secs and turn (read: push/pull) it to another marker (depending on the satellite I wanted to tune to)...
Cheap and effective! Although cold during winters... ;D
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Post by MEF on Nov 5, 2006 23:24:21 GMT -5
Getting back to the topic, these were the stations in Northern Michigan that aired Casey's Top 40.
WKHQ 1/89 to ?/90 Sunday 9a-1p
WKPK ?/90 to ?/92 Sunday 6p-10p
WKPK ?/92 to 1995 Sunday 8a-Noon
WKHQ 1996 to 3/98 Sunday 8a-Noon
WYSS in Sault Ste. Marie, MI aired Casey on Saturday Mornings. First it was 9a-1p, then 6a-10a. WYSS still airs Casey with AT20 today Saturdays from 7a-10a.
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Post by Jeffster on Nov 15, 2006 22:11:55 GMT -5
Here in Bryan/College Station, Texas: First CT40 affiliate was KTSR "Star 92" which started airing the show in June of 1989 (might have been July I'm not sure of the exact week.) Star 92 aired CT40 Sunday nights 6pm-10pm. At the time, AT40 was on KTAM 1240 AM Sunday nights 8-midnight, so I would listen to the first 2 hours of Casey then it was Shadoe except during commercial breaks where I would flip over to hear Casey. Also I would usually flip over to Casey around 9:55 to see what was #1. Sometime in 1990, KULF Brenham picked up Casey Sunday afternoons from 1-5. There was also a Waco station, KWTX 97.5 FM which aired Casey 8am-noon on Sundays, so I usually listen to Casey in the morning or the afternoon so I could hear the complete show and not be flipping back and forth between Casey and Shadoe on Sunday nights. Fall 1990, Star 92 flipped to a rock format and dropped CT40. It was promptly picked up by KKYS 104.7 Kiss-FM (they had previously been airing Rick Dees Sunday mornings so they then started having both.) Kiss kept the Sunday 6-10pm timeslot that CT40 had on Star 92. At the very end of 1990, KTAM dropped Shadoe and he was out of the market till early 1993, so Casey or Rick was the countdown choice, and duh, Casey was much better.  By 1993, KKYS had dropped Rick and moved Casey to Sunday mornings, and started airing Shadoe on Saturday nights, (that lasted until the end of 1993 when KKYS aired the year-end AT40 and then dropped the show for good. Either that or moved it to a timeslot I couldnt find!) Also in 1993, Kiss had become Mix and gone to a more adult sound, and so they switched from airing CT40 to Casey's Countdown. At some point, atleast by 1996 but I don't know how much before then, they switched to Casey's Hot 20, and aired that all the way up to the end of that show. They then aired American Top 20 which they still carry to this day. A slightly amusing footnote to that is, I of course had no idea that Casey's Countdown and Casey's Hot 20 were separate shows, I just thought they had changed the name and shrunk the chart down to 20 from 25. It wasn't until 1997 when I first gained access to the R&R charts online as well as radio station websites, that I discovered Casey's Countdown indeed still existed, and was aired on softer Ac stations whereas my local station had decided they were too "hot" for the soft stuff. That was also the same time I learned of AT40's demise, all the time from the year end countdown of 1993 to the summer of 1997 I wondered if it was still airing on stations I had no access to. |
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Post by mrjukebox on Jun 8, 2008 15:47:09 GMT -5
In Southwestern Connecticut,"Casey's Top 40" aired briefly during 1989 on WICC 600 & its sister station WEBE 108-Until the summer of 1996,WEBE was airing "Casey's Hot 20"-The station then started airing the AC "Casey's Countdown"-Towards the end of the 90's,WEBE ran the AC version of "American Top 20" on Sunday mornings-March 2004 saw the debut of "American Top 10",which WEBE ran until December 2004-Unfortunately,WEBE no longer airs "AT 10"-I would've thought that the other AC station in Southwestern Connecticut,Star 99.9,would've picked up the show-Hasn't happened yet.
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Post by mrjukebox on Nov 19, 2008 19:43:58 GMT -5
Scott,the format change at "Mix 105" took place in November 1996-Unfortunately,it failed to attract an audience & was dropped within a year or so.
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Post by charlypp on Nov 19, 2008 20:03:49 GMT -5
Here in south Florida,Power 96 WPOW,carried the show until 1997(I think they got CT40 from the beginning,we've heard Casey mentioning Power 96 in his last classic AT40 show)so when I moved in to the USA in dec '94 that was my station,"The soundtrack of South Florida ..."
Then CT40 went to Y100 WHYI on ...
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Post by Scott Lakefield on Nov 20, 2008 8:16:59 GMT -5
Scott,the format change at "Mix 105" took place in November 1996-Unfortunately,it failed to attract an audience & was dropped within a year or so. Right, and there was at least one more format change before yet ANOTHER change sometime before March 1998, when AT20/HAC aired on 105.1 in NYC until THAT format got changed! |
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Post by mkarns on Nov 20, 2008 17:01:28 GMT -5
In the Nations Capital, CT40 debued on opening weekend, Janurary '89, where it stayed until a format change in feburary 1992 (105 WAVA). It did not affect Shadoe Stevens as Shadoe was on Q107 at the time, where he stayed until they flipped to mix in Aug '90. Perimeter stations? I believe B104 in Baltimore switched directly from Shadoe to Casey until B104s demise in mid '91. CT40 was very briefly on 98.3 Star FM of Southern Maryland latter 1/2 of '91. I believe also in '91 CT40 was carried on 96.7 WQCM out of Hagerstown MD up until the end of 1992. Q94 in Richmond VA, also switched directly from Shadoe to Casey and Carried Casey continuously until Ryan Seacrest took over in '04 an even still carries AT40 today. I don't know when but probably in 1992, maybe earlier, Mix-106.3 of Easton MD (The eastern shore) picked up CT40 and carried it at least thru 1993, most likely cancelled it somewhere in '94 as I know by '95 it was gone. CT40 was also heared throughout 1994 only on Z104 (Frederick, MD) which sort of could be considered a 'dc' station, since they were not allowed to air Rick Dees or Casey as long as a DC station was carrying the show (Z104 was filed away on a shelf in 1995). Parts of their former signal covered some dc suburbs. It wasn't until '96 when Z104 was reborn that it truely became a Washington dc station. And they decided to go w/ Rick Dees in '97. I remember Casey's Top 40 on WAVA in 1989-90, but didn't know that it ran all the way until they changed formats in February 1992. Meanwhile, Q107/Mix 107 continued to run AT40 (with Shadoe Stevens) until August 1991 (a year after the change to the more Hot AC-ish "Mix" format.) Being the Billboard chart geek that I was, I stuck with Shadoe's AT40 because the chart was consistent (this was before Billboard/AT40's late 1991 chart shift.) Almost every Sunday night or morning I wrote the Top 40 down! I guess I never found when Casey was on before the demise of the Top 40 WAVA; in any event I had no regular access to a Top 40 countdown until I entered college in Roanoke, VA in 1993, where K92 ran (and still runs) Rick Dees. Occasionally I would stumble upon one of the stations mentioned, but the signals and scheduling were too erratic to be of much use. |
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Post by mrjukebox on Nov 20, 2008 18:34:39 GMT -5
WTIC-FM in Hartford,CT used to run "Casey's Top 40" on Sunday mornings from 1989-1994-The reason they dropped the show was because TIC doesn't play the rap songs that were featured on the countdown-They subsequently flipped to a Hot AC format,which they still have today-They still run Casey on Sunday mornings,but it's "AT20".
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Post by Michael1973 on Nov 21, 2008 16:30:43 GMT -5
WTIC-FM in Hartford,CT used to run "Casey's Top 40" on Sunday mornings from 1989-1994-The reason they dropped the show was because TIC doesn't play the rap songs that were featured on the countdown-They subsequently flipped to a Hot AC format,which they still have today-They still run Casey on Sunday mornings,but it's "AT20". Actually, they continued to air the show for two more years after the switch, but they would (very obviously) chop out all songs that didn't fit the new format. It made for very amusing listening some weeks! |
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