End-of-hour theme music

[kchkwong]

I know some stations play the whole end-of-show theme music, but so far I cannot find any stations which play the whole end-of-hour theme music. Does any know which stations play the whole theme every hour for the 70s and 80s shows?

[matt]

So far I haven't heard any stations that do this. Some may play slightly longer than others, but most stations don't seem to play the end-of-hour theme for very long...

[vincem]

I believe the end of hour music is faded out by Premiere. Premiere embeds network spots after the end hour theme as part of the show they deliver to stations. It's not like the original run of the show where stations had the discretion to play as much or as little of the theme as they chose. In the original run, there were no network spots at the end of the hour, but that's not the case here.

The end of show theme is different. There are no network spots after song #1, so stations can let it play in full.

[frankster]

As vincem has mentioned, Premiere fade out the end of hour themes, but the final hour theme is intact - unfortunately a lot of stations choose to fade this out also. WFMX splice in the end of hour theme as heard on hours 1, 2 and 3 of the 80's shows into the final hour after "and of course, Casey Kasem", while KODM play it through to the end.

[kchkwong]

Aug 2, 2011 2:36:27 GMT -5 frankster said:

As vincem has mentioned, Premiere fade out the end of hour themes, but the final hour theme is intact - unfortunately a lot of stations choose to fade this out also. WFMX splice in the end of hour theme as heard on hours 1, 2 and 3 of the 80's shows into the final hour after "and of course, Casey Kasem", while KODM play it through to the end.

I used to record from WFMX. A few weeks ago I decided that I recorded the last segment from another station and replaced the last segment from WFMX, just to have the end-of-show theme back. But in the same week that I decided to do that, the stream from WFMX changed from stereo to mono.

[bestmusicexpert]

Only XM has ever played it out to the end that I have heard.

As for end of show, occasionally I hear people do it, but mainly when its Shuckatoom. Otherwise, it usually fades out.

Smart stations use the end theme as a bed for their station announcements.

[Mike]

KEDG and KKLI have played it out to the end.

[MEF]

Of course, when AT40 orginally aired in the 80s most stations would cut off the end hour themes.

Hearing the end of hour theme music was a rare treat for me when I orginally heard AT40 in the 80s. WHYT would not play the ending hour theme in full. They would have some station promo talking over the end of hour theme. However, they were pretty good airing the end show theme in full without anyone talking. However, when WHYT replayed AT40 the 2nd time, the end hour themes were played out from 1984 to 1986.

The treat was if I was in Northern Michigan on Sunday Night. WHSB in Alpena always played the ending hour themes in full.

[briguy52748]

First with the topic at hand, in the Quad-Cities market KUUL plays the 70s end theme in full, while KMXG (which plays the 80s show) sometimes does and sometimes fades early ... no set pattern. With the 1986 show this weekend, KMXG played it to the end.

Shifting gears a little bit -- the 1982 hour end themes, at first had a music cue that was similar to the hour open themes but then switched a few months later to the 1978 "hour end" theme. What was up with that, and will we hear the 1978 or 1982 "hour end" music cue this weekend? (Seems like there was at least one or two key changes with the 1982 "hour open" cue, and given the briefly used "hour end" music was similar I bet this had some key changes too, am I right?)

Brian