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Post by rgmike on Jan 20, 2024 12:01:34 GMT -5
WQOK starting the full 4 hours of 1979. Note that Casey incorrectly says the male lead on "Heaven Knows" is Bruce Sudano; in fact it was Joe Esposito.
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Post by kenmartin on Jan 20, 2024 12:02:05 GMT -5
Did I forget to mention that this countdown will also be Supersized on WTOJ this weekend? Every bite of Meat Loaf is there for you to savor. Begins Sunday 9 AM Eastern. The Supersized WTOJ 1/20/1979 airing may not include for the "You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth" song that spoken intro that starts "On a hot summer night...": www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRZTRTPiIT4That spoken intro wasn't part of the single. It's not in the Supersized version. |
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Post by kani on Jan 20, 2024 12:17:10 GMT -5
1979 few notes, I listened WPNC little 8 min late...
interesting to note that Herb Alpert game show made countdown, like Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley theme shows made AT40 countdown in 1976.
ABC game 1965 #27 Spanish Flea which was the theme of Dating Game.
12 country songs
former #1 soul Got to Be Real
8 min 22 sec: longest song for 1972.. Don McLean - American Pie, and brief story about it
Soul Man song was performed in Sat Night Live in 1978
each hour jingles after Casey finishes talking goes til the end, instead of fading. That has happened late last year in 1978
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jan 20, 2024 12:55:21 GMT -5
I wonder if this an original or Premiere butcher? Surely only 3 1/2 months into the 4hr era, they weren't so pressed for time they needed to take a :40 chunk outta the single? Keep in mind the 1979 version of the show had 12 minutes available for commercials per hour. The current version has 5 minutes for the local station along with another 5 for national spots. That's 10 minutes. Then, you have to tack an additional approximately 3:30 for the optional extra. That's 13:30 or 90 seconds longer for commercials and non-original AT40 programming. The version Premiere offers will always need to be edited to fit today's timing constraints. Plus, as an added problem, sometimes the original show actually put incorrect timings. The segments would run longer than what was listed on the cue sheet. Stations would still have that 12 minutes of commercial time, but the hour would run longer than 48 minutes. Amazing explanation! Which begs the question... why offer the extras? Is it so those affiliates with healthy commercial loads can have that extra ad time available. |
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Post by rgmike on Jan 20, 2024 14:10:22 GMT -5
Anyone have insight on which stations might air the '71 countdown? Likely: Saturday 2 pm - WQMV WQMV just went with a 3-hr version of 1979. |
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Post by michaelcasselman on Jan 20, 2024 15:07:04 GMT -5
Keep in mind the 1979 version of the show had 12 minutes available for commercials per hour. The current version has 5 minutes for the local station along with another 5 for national spots. That's 10 minutes. Then, you have to tack an additional approximately 3:30 for the optional extra. That's 13:30 or 90 seconds longer for commercials and non-original AT40 programming. The version Premiere offers will always need to be edited to fit today's timing constraints. Plus, as an added problem, sometimes the original show actually put incorrect timings. The segments would run longer than what was listed on the cue sheet. Stations would still have that 12 minutes of commercial time, but the hour would run longer than 48 minutes. Amazing explanation! Which begs the question... why offer the extras? Is it so those affiliates with healthy commercial loads can have that extra ad time available. Seeing as how not every affiliate plays the extras, and fills that time with commercials, the answer seems self-evident. |
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jan 20, 2024 15:51:45 GMT -5
Amazing explanation! Which begs the question... why offer the extras? Is it so those affiliates with healthy commercial loads can have that extra ad time available. Seeing as how not every affiliate plays the extras, and fills that time with commercials, the answer seems self-evident. Which begs question #2...I thought the 1st hour of four hours shows was offered to affiliates national commercial free. That is already 5 extras minutes to work with. Was that first hour still so overloaded Meat had to be sliced up? KOKZs first stanza clocked in at 53 minutes... |
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jan 20, 2024 16:00:14 GMT -5
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Post by michaelcasselman on Jan 20, 2024 16:00:24 GMT -5
Just because it's offered commercial free doesn't mean individual stations still don't have the bills to pay...
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jan 20, 2024 16:14:56 GMT -5
Just because it's offered commercial free doesn't mean individual stations still don't have the bills to pay... And they do, with their local spots... which still air. |
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Post by at40petebattistini on Jan 20, 2024 16:26:17 GMT -5
Whether affiliates use ads, PSAs or music, filling time during AT40 broadcasts goes all the way back to the summer of 1970. As noted in Rob’s book, Watermark produced Casey Kasem-voiced vignettes available to stations interested in rounding out each hour, and completing the show’s professed 3-hour schedule. These tapes contained the *original* optional extras, with the first Watermark release spotlighting Billboard’s number one singles and artists from 1969.
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Post by jmack19 on Jan 20, 2024 17:07:23 GMT -5
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Post by rondixon66 on Jan 20, 2024 20:21:10 GMT -5
I've not seen a weekend before with so many channels playing 79 instead of the alternative. I'm always struggling to find the 4 hour 79 and this week I was hoping to hear the 71 show and that's the struggle, so different than years past.
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Post by mellongraig on Jan 20, 2024 22:29:43 GMT -5
I'll go with 1/24/76 over 1/26/74 & 1/29/77 for next weekend. 2017 is the only time 1/24/76 was aired by Premiere. The 1974 show last aired in 2016. 1/29/77 last aired in 2019. I could see both 1/26/74 and 1/24/76 be aired together as A and B shows respectively next weekend... |
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Post by mrjukebox on Jan 21, 2024 8:43:57 GMT -5
Getting ready for supersized "AT40" on WTOJ.
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