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Post by jdmatthews on May 11, 2009 0:57:24 GMT -5
I've noticed that they've started editing the 80's just the same way they are editing the 70's shows on SiriusXM.
Is there nothing that can be done to stop this travesty?
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Post by dougray2 on May 11, 2009 1:12:38 GMT -5
I guess we could email and complain, but I doubt it will do any good. If this continues, I will cancel my subscription. If they don't want to broadcast the entire show, they shouldn't air them at all. My guess is they will take AT40 off the air when the contract runs out, maybe in August? That will be 3 years since they started carrying AT40.
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Post by vto66 on May 11, 2009 12:29:05 GMT -5
Just a little curious about something: It seems that SXM 70s has been cutting off the show-outro themes for AT40 for the past few months, along with the other edits, while SXM 80s has let the outro themes play in full, while at the same time making their own edits to the shows. I didn't get a chance to hear all of last week's hatchet-job version of AT40 from May 1, 1982, but I'd be surprised if, even with all the severer-than-severe edits they pulled, they still let the closing theme play out as always. Now as far as '82 and '83 shows go, losing the closing theme would be no big loss to me, since it was the one with the extended sax bridge (my most unfavorite AT40 outro theme, although I know some of you out there feel otherwise about it). So, did anyone who caught that show get to hear the end theme in all its jazzy glory, or did SXM hack that away too? Just curious.
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Post by mkarns on May 11, 2009 13:06:45 GMT -5
The 5/1/82 closing theme was cut off as soon as Casey's talking ended. No sax solo for you! Though on many other 80s shows they have played the whole ending music, original sponsor credits and all. A few weeks ago they ran a 1986 show whose original sponsor credits included Pontiac ("We Build Excitement"); the next day I watched the news and found that brand will soon be history.
XM-70s usually does cut off the music, whichever theme was used that week. Since they were willing to play the whole show even if it ran overtime, why not give us an extra minute or two?
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Post by coldcardinal on May 14, 2009 12:38:06 GMT -5
I just edited my 5/1/82 recording for transfer to disc. 2 hours and 45 minutes???!!!!! Ouch -- I dread listening to it to see what they cut.
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Post by Scott Lakefield on May 15, 2009 11:50:21 GMT -5
I just edited my 5/1/82 recording for transfer to disc. 2 hours and 45 minutes???!!!!! Ouch -- I dread listening to it to see what they cut. Wow. Nuf said. |
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Post by mkarns on May 15, 2009 12:05:03 GMT -5
They cut out all the extras, the recap of the last week's top 3, and even one of the Long Distance Dedications (Gladys Knight & the Pips' "Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me").
But the XM fan site says that the 5/9/87 show run last weekend, which will presumably be heard again Sunday night, was unedited. If so, good news that would be even better if I hadn't already heard that countdown umpty times.
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Post by Indycolt on May 16, 2009 8:07:23 GMT -5
I guess the question would be,"how bad do you want to hear AT40?" I no longer listen to the broadcasts on XM because I can't stand the edits. But as a guy who has all the 70's era shows anyways,I'll just play my own discs. That being said,if this was the only way I could hear AT40--with the edits--I guess I'd have no choice but to gut it out.
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Post by papathree on May 24, 2009 9:30:17 GMT -5
Today's show (5/24/80) was heavily edited, also.
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