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Post by Caseyfan4everRyanfanNever on Jul 25, 2012 17:13:14 GMT -5
Yes, Paul. There were lots of people (myself included) who were royally POed with what Kelly did. You must've been there too. Bruce should have come out at the very first and admitted that AT40 was only for a short time--that they had somehow obtained the remaining rights that Premiere had gotten for Flashback. As for the rights agreement that they have now, I don't know. Whether or not Bruce put out all the effort he referred to in that post, I have my doubts. After all, by the time XM got AT40 again (2006), Bruce had gone and Rick Stacy, as PD of the 80s at that time, seemed to take credit for getting AT40. (as well as getting Rick Dees a few years later--after all Stacy had been a guest host for the Weekly Top 40 at one point in the 1990s-one of the shows, from July 1992, was just broadcast on terrestrial radio). After the merger, both Casey and Rick (Dees and Stacy) left the 80s on 8.
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Post by marv101 on Jul 25, 2012 19:19:41 GMT -5
The key issue with initiating airings of an 'AT40 The 90's' countdown series would be the music, which stations from which formats would carry it, and which would pass. WQSR is the only Adult Hits station that I know of that carries the 80s version so they might go for the 90s edition. Based on columns by Sean ross and other industry figures avialable on their website at www.radio-info.com, it would be a very safe bet that the number of AC stations which currently carry the 80s countdowns wouldn't touch those nineties countdowns under any circumstances. You can certainly scratch the Classics Hits/Oldies stations as well; heritage stations such as LA's legendary KRTH are slowly adding eighties music while slowly reducing the amount of pre-Beatlemania music they play, so any chance of any such station loading up on 90s music within the next 5-7 years are nil as long as they very gingerly continue to slowly add 80s product. Ross's most recent column cited WCBS-FM's airing of Whitney Houston's 'I'm Every Woman' (1993) as a bold move for a format which isn't exactly bull-rushing its way into playing 90s music, or the 80s, for that matter. His assertion that the Classic Hits/Oldies format cetainly has a TON of 80s music at their disposal that they can safely play alongside their Hot AC compentition is solid as well. Consequently, he opined that the format isn't showing any inclination to add 80s music to their libraries any quicker than they already are, his point being that hearing 'I'm Every Woman' on a monster Oldies powerhouse such as CBS-FM was a big shock to a lot of folks.
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Post by shadster on Jul 25, 2012 22:50:03 GMT -5
Let's point out that Rick Dees is already airing his 1990's shows on a handfull of stations throughout the country. This shows that airing an AT40 version is very possible, but at the same time, its not exactly a success story. One would be hard to mention more than 4 stations carrying Rick's 90's show. Which speaks volumes towards its appeal, to PD's mainly.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2012 7:06:58 GMT -5
True but that's not because it's a 90s show. 80s shows have a life on the radio but his is just about as "widely" distributed as the 90s one.
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Post by matt on Jul 26, 2012 11:29:52 GMT -5
The key issue with initiating airings of an 'AT40 The 90's' countdown series would be the music, which stations from which formats would carry it, and which would pass. WQSR is the only Adult Hits station that I know of that carries the 80s version so they might go for the 90s edition. Based on columns by Sean ross and other industry figures avialable on their website at www.radio-info.com, it would be a very safe bet that the number of AC stations which currently carry the 80s countdowns wouldn't touch those nineties countdowns under any circumstances. You can certainly scratch the Classics Hits/Oldies stations as well; heritage stations such as LA's legendary KRTH are slowly adding eighties music while slowly reducing the amount of pre-Beatlemania music they play, so any chance of any such station loading up on 90s music within the next 5-7 years are nil as long as they very gingerly continue to slowly add 80s product. Ross's most recent column cited WCBS-FM's airing of Whitney Houston's 'I'm Every Woman' (1993) as a bold move for a format which isn't exactly bull-rushing its way into playing 90s music, or the 80s, for that matter. His assertion that the Classic Hits/Oldies format cetainly has a TON of 80s music at their disposal that they can safely play alongside their Hot AC compentition is solid as well. Consequently, he opined that the format isn't showing any inclination to add 80s music to their libraries any quicker than they already are, his point being that hearing 'I'm Every Woman' on a monster Oldies powerhouse such as CBS-FM was a big shock to a lot of folks. There are a number of stations that currently carry "AT40 - The 80's" that are the "Mix" type stations, and do that whole 80's, 90's and today thing (examples would include WMMX, WMLX, and the aforementioned WQSR). I would have to believe there would be some interest among these stations for AT40 or CT40 in the 90's. As was said, probably a significant factor would be whether or not those stations' 90's catalog would align with the songs heard on the AT40/CT40/Dees shows, at least in the eyes of the PDs.
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Post by blackbowl68 on Jul 27, 2012 16:46:45 GMT -5
Here on Long Island, a new radio station came into existence a few months ago that bills itself as a "Generation X" station. Its format is essentially an oldies station playing classic CHR hits from 1985 - 2005. (It goes out of its way not to sound AC.) This seems like an ideal format to air Casey's Top 40 or American Top 40: The Shadoe Years. Curious to know how many stations like this are popping up across the US. This is, after all, a big void in the market.
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Post by shadster on Jul 28, 2012 8:15:50 GMT -5
There are a few GenX stations around the country, 1 that was in Columbus Ohio, failed. And that station did air Rick's 90's show as I recall. There is another GenX'r that is still on the air and still airing Ricks 90's show.
With Clear Channel's WLIF now airing more 80's music, an strong arming the 70s music, including droping Casey's 1970's countdowns.....I could forsee a possible scenario......if a 90's show was started, Clear channel could move Casey's 80's shows from WQSR over to WLIF an run the 90's shows on WQSR. I know, highly unlikely, but yet.....possible.
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Post by saltrek on Jul 28, 2012 8:47:29 GMT -5
Also, the Gex-X station in Tulsa, that was also airing Rick's 90's shows, flipped to country. Another failed Gen-Xer.
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Post by marv101 on Jul 28, 2012 9:59:04 GMT -5
The 90s just weren't very kind to the top 40 format, so I'm not surprised that Rick's show is struggling with only a handful of affiliates.
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Post by Caseyfan4everRyanfanNever on Jul 28, 2012 10:21:09 GMT -5
98.9 WKIM in Memphis was Gen X for a few months but switched to Talk last year.
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Post by artsmusic on Jul 28, 2012 21:55:16 GMT -5
You all might want to check out www.i101fm.com as an exercise in 90s hits. Q101 Chicago was one of the BIG alternative stations of the 90s and 00s. After a short flip to FM news, they're trying this format. It seems to run from 1988ish through the 90s. Baby Got Back is fun once (or twice) but not so sure after 3 or 4 times.....
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Post by doc83 on Jul 6, 2014 19:59:25 GMT -5
Figure I'd post here - Top 40 of the 1990s airing right now on the American Top 40 Classic channel on iHeart Radio:
CASEY KASEM'S AMERICAN TOP 40 HITS OF THE 90'S – 1/1/2000
40: IT MUST HAVE BEEN LOVE - ROXETTE 39: MY LOVIN' - YOU'RE NEVER GONNA GET IT - EN VOGUE 38: VOGUE - MADONNA 37: NOTHING COMPARES 2 U - SINEAD O'CONNOR 36: VISION OF LOVE - MARIAH CAREY 35: BABY BABY - AMY GRANT 34: ROMANTIC - KARYN WHITE 33: SAVE THE BEST FOR LAST - VANESSA WILLIAMS 32: WEAK - SWV 31: EVERYTHING I DO, I DO IT FOR YOU - BRYAN ADAMS 30: THAT'S THE WAY LOVE GOES - JANET JACKSON EXTRA: CANDLE IN THE WIND '97 - ELTON JOHN 29: I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU - WHITNEY HOUSTON 28: END OF THE ROAD - BOYZ II MEN 27: NAME - THE GOO GOO DOLLS 26: DREAMLOVER - MARIAH CAREY 25: GENIE IN A BOTTLE - CHRISTINA AGUILARA 24: EVERY MORNING - SUGAR RAY 23: ALL I WANNA DO - SHERYL CROW 22: ALL STAR - SMASHHMOUTH 21: ON BENDED KNEE - BOYZ II MEN EXTRA: MACARINA - LOS DELRIO 20: YOU LEARN - ALANIS MORISETTE 19: TUBTHUMPING - CHUBUWUMBA 18: STAY, I MISSED YOU - LISA LISA & 9 STORIES 17: ONE SWET DAY - MARIAH CAREY W/ BOYZ II MEN 16: I DON'T WANNA MISS A THING - AEROSMITH 15: KISS FROM A ROSE - SEAL 14: SLIDE - THE GOO GOO DOLLS 13: SEMI-CHARMED LIFE - 3RD EYE BLIND 12: BABY, ONE MORE TIME - BRITNEY SPEARS EXTRA: LIVIN' LAVITA LOCA - RICKY MARTIN 11: FLY - SUGAR RAY 10: MY HEART WILL GO ON - CELINE DION 9: THE SIGN - ACE OF BASS 8: YOU WERE MEANT FOR ME - JEWEL 7: I KNOW - DIONNE FERRIS 6: ANOTHER NIGHT - REAL McCOY 5: TRULY, MADLY, DEEPLY - SAVAGE GARDEN 4: IRIS - THE GOO GOO DOLLS 3: DON'T SPEAK - NO DOUBT 2: TURN - NATALIE AMBRULIA 1: I LOVE YOU ALWAYS, FOREVER - DONNA LEWIS
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Jul 7, 2014 17:49:34 GMT -5
No pun intended, but I noticed that the #1 song of 1996, "Missing" by Everything But The Girl, really is missing. Maybe it ranked below the top 40 songs of the 1990s or something.
Plus, it seems as if the bottom half consisted mostly of material from 1990 to 1993. The top half (#20 to #1) featured a lot of material from the latter half of the 1990s (1995 to 1999). I am not sure if "Stay (I Missed You)" by Lisa Loeb (not Lisa Lisa) and Nine Stories was from 1993 or 1994, but I do know that the earliest a song was from in the top 20 was no earlier than 1994, maybe 1993. And a total of only 3 songs (maybe 2) were from 1992.
Of course, we'd be pretty lucky to get rebroadcasts of Casey's Top 40 down the road. Second run of AT40, probably not, especially since the #1 song in the latter Casey years of AT40's second life had a sponsor involved - unless they could edit out the sponsor. I do have an August 2002 episode and I think the #1 song of that week, "Complicated", did have a sponsor announced by Casey.
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Post by johnnywest on Jul 9, 2014 22:16:28 GMT -5
Of course, we'd be pretty lucky to get rebroadcasts of Casey's Top 40 down the road. Second run of AT40, probably not, especially since the #1 song in the latter Casey years of AT40's second life had a sponsor involved - unless they could edit out the sponsor. I do have an August 2002 episode and I think the #1 song of that week, "Complicated", did have a sponsor announced by Casey. If they used the international version, there wouldn't be any sponsors to edit out.
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Post by matt on Jul 21, 2014 11:11:10 GMT -5
Curious to know how many of the SXM users on the boards have ever checked out Julie Brown's "Back In the Day Replay" countdowns on SXM 90's on 9. I thought I would try it out and see what it was like in comparison to Rick Dees or CT40.
Turns out that SXM/Julie Brown uses the actual Hot 100 chart from the time for those shows, and I gotta tell everyone that after listening I have never been more convinced that abandoning the Hot 100 by Casey and AT40/Shadoe was the ONLY way to go. The shows are almost unlistenable...after about the first 10 songs or so (the show is a top 30 countdown), I found myself jumping ahead to the next song over and over in hopes of finding at least a tolerable song. So much in the way of terrible R&B and rap/hip hop--really hard to understand how R&B got so bad compared to the amazing Motown tunes of the 60's and 70's, and several of the great R&B hits of the 80's.
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