AT40: The 90's

[your friend]

What are the chances for a 90s version of AT40 coming? Would it be acknowledged, finally, that the show has had one more host, Shadoe Stevens? Or would they air Casey's Top 40?

This is all pure speculation of course, as Premiere has not given any indication of rebroadcasting shows from the 90s.

[jdelachjr2002]

Slim to none.

[mkarns]

Unfortunately, I'd say not great due probably to legal issues and different titles/hosts, though as time passes and the nostalgia cycle turns to that period, who knows? If someone did do this, I think it would likely be Casey's Top 40 (if suitably broadcastable copies are available), as that covered over four fifths of the decade, and perhaps they could, if legally possible, append the 1998-99 AT40s as well (since it would still be Casey hosting, most listeners probably wouldn't find it too different.)

I don't think the Shadoe shows are ever likely to be rerun as they only cover the first half of the 90s and would have to be interspersed with Casey to get a representative picture of the decade's music, requiring Premiere or whoever to randomly pick shows from two different hosts which would sound inconsistent and confusing to many listeners (perhaps that's a reason why they don't run Shadoe's 80s shows).

For much the same reason, I wouldn't hold my breath for a 2000-09 AT40 either; to get a truly representative mix of shows you'd have to rotate between Casey Kasem and Ryan Seacrest, and while the title and Premiere ownership would be the same the content would be even more inconsistent, with Long Distance Dedication letters one week and Hollywood star interviews the next.

[Caseyfan4everRyanfanNever]

I'd have to agree with the other two respondents, laxster. Although a rebroadcast of Casey's 1990s shows would be nice, there are lots of obstacles to overcome before Premiere could make this a reality if they are thinking about doing so. This isn't to say that they won't broadcast these shows, nobody that I know of has that answer. But I just don't see it happening anytime soon.

[Hervard]

At least for now, we have the Dees shows from the 90s and this decade, for those interested in not much, if any, more than hearing the music (of course, people who want to hear songs like "Ms. Jackson" are pretty much S.O.L).

[Scott Lakefield]

It's definitely not a legal rights issue, as Premiere owns all of the shows. But I wouldn't hold your breath. I think the "show name" issue is probably the biggest problem.

But then again, they could go with "Casey's Top 40: The 90s" and have a pretty good representation of shows. After all, Casey hosted that show through nearly the end of February 1998, only about 5 months less than the "equivalent" period 10 years before in 1988, when he went through the first week of August.

So, who knows...but I'd still doubt it.

[briguy52748]

May 14, 2010 6:10:05 GMT -5 Scott Lakefield said:

But then again, they could go with "Casey's Top 40: The 90s" and have a pretty good representation of shows.

Or maybe just simply, "Casey's Countdowns" and then broadcast both Casey's Top 40 shows from Jan. 6, 1990 through Feb. 21, 1998; plus the American Top 40 from March 1998 to the year-end 2003 show (aired Jan. 3, 2004) and the Kasem-hosted shows from Jan. 10, 2004 through July 5, 2009 ... all in the same package.

At least that's how I'd envision things. Imagine — the same weekend having, say, a 1971 show (aired as part of the 1970s package) and a 2009 show (as part of the 1990-2009 package).

Brian

[Caseyfan4everRyanfanNever]

Casey's Countdowns would probably be too close to the AC show that Casey hosted (Casey's Countdown) from May 1992-Feb 1998. However, that didn't stop Premiere from naming the AC version of American Top 20 as "American Top 10" in 2004 despite the existence of Casey's television countdown "America's Top 10" in the 1980s-90s.

Most likely, if Premiere decides to do such a thing, a rebroadcast of Casey's shows for the 90s would consist of CT40 shows from Jan 6 1990-Feb 21, 1998 (including only those that Casey hosted--not guest hosts) and AT40 Mar 28, 1998-Dec 25, 1999. They would probably save the 2000-2009 shows for a separate series of rebroadcasts.

Actually, this discussion is merely academic--meaning that it's based upon our ideas of what such a series may look like. Please remember that this series will not exist unless Premiere makes the decision to broadcast it. Maybe they have, maybe they haven't--nobody knows. But if/when they do (assuming that they handle this in the same way as they did the 70s and 80s shows), they will give at least some advance publicity. In any case, it would be nice to have a 90s rebroadcast series of Casey's shows.

[briguy52748]

May 14, 2010 13:19:40 GMT -5 Caseyfan4everRyanfanNever said:

Casey's Most likely, if Premiere decides to do such a thing, a rebroadcast of Casey's shows for the 90s would consist of CT40 shows from Jan 6 1990-Feb 21, 1998 (including only those that Casey hosted--not guest hosts) and AT40 Mar 28, 1998-Dec 25, 1999. They would probably save the 2000-2009 shows for a separate series of rebroadcasts.

Actually, this discussion is merely academic--meaning that it's based upon our ideas of what such a series may look like. Please remember that this series will not exist unless Premiere makes the decision to broadcast it. Maybe they have, maybe they haven't--nobody knows. But if/when they do (assuming that they handle this in the same way as they did the 70s and 80s shows), they will give at least some advance publicity. In any case, it would be nice to have a 90s rebroadcast series of Casey's shows.

I agree that this is just an academic discussion. My envisioning a single series encompassing 1990-2009 was just that — a vision of how I'd see Premiere putting together such a package. Stylistically, the music of the 1990s is that entirely different from 2000-2009, is it? (It may be comparing the 1970s and 1980s, but that's a totally different discussion altogether.)

The academicness of this discussion is also not that much different than, say, talking about whether Premiere will air Shadoe Stevens-hosted AT40s from Aug. 13, 1988-Dec. 23, 1989 as part of the "AT40: The 80s" package. I suppose if that ever were to happen (don't hold your breath, unfortunately), the name of the program would just need to be altered slightly — to delete "Casey Kasem's," since he would not be the only host — and then Larry Morgan would explain that Shadoe is "this week's special guest host," or something like that.

Brian

[MEF]

It would be nice if Casey's Top 40 from the 90s would air. From 1993 onward, I didn't have a Casey's Top 40 station in Detroit. It was either Casey's Countdown then Casey's Hot 20.

I would be hearing those CT40 shows for the 1st time. However, I'm not going to hold my breath on this one. I should be grateful the AT40 1970-1978 and 1980-1988 shows are airing on the radio.

[mkarns]

May 23, 2010 23:41:12 GMT -5 MEF said:

It would be nice if Casey's Top 40 from the 90s would air. From 1993 onward, I didn't have a Casey's Top 40 station in Detroit. It was either Casey's Countdown then Casey's Hot 20.

Same situation in the Washington DC area after early 1992, when the last top 40 station in the area at the time changed formats, though thereafter I did sometimes hear CT40 elsewhere.

We did get Casey's AC shows locally, right up until he signed off last year, which was nice but unfortunately, likely due to provisions in his contracts, after top 40 radio returned to the area we still didn't get to hear CT40 or even the revived AT40 for as long as he hosted. (AT40 did return to the DC region in January 2004, right when Ryan Seacrest took over.)

[shadster]

CT40 did air on Z104 in 1994. Thats the REAL Z104, 103.9 Frederick, MD. but in '95 Z104 was taken over by the station that would eventually (1.5 yrs later) bring Z104 back as a DC and Frederick CHR. No Kasem Top 40 show was ever heard in DC ever again.

I listened to CT40 after WAVA died in 1992 on 96.7 WQCM Hagerstown MD, but that ended in 1993. THen I found it on Mix106.3 from Cambridge MD. I could (not always) pick up these stations from my home in Fairfax. Then it hit Z104 an after that ended I had no choice but to listen to it on Q94, Richmond (which meant at least an hour drive south). I discovered in 1998 though that CT40 was on Q101 in Harrisonburg VA, which comes in clear as a bell in Centreville. That lasted till the turn of the mellenium. The remaining Casey AT40 years I heard on Q94, although not every week. Too far to drive every week