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Post by mstgator on Jul 17, 2012 17:56:56 GMT -5
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Post by jmorgan on Jul 3, 2014 18:17:33 GMT -5
Sorry to bump this up after two years, but here's one of the first shows, if not THE first from May '80, that uses a newsroom kind of set which they got rid of shortly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIz7wIPmRuQ |
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Post by adam31 on Jul 22, 2014 0:22:12 GMT -5
Interestingly weird, but AT10 was always based on Billboards Hot 100, even after Casey left for Casey's Top 40, so he was giving two different versions of the top ten every week.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2014 5:07:50 GMT -5
No it was not. At some point it did switch to R&R. I was able to watch the last couple months of regular shows before it went into 2 1/2 months of special reruns that ended the series in 1992 and they were R&R then.
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Post by rayshae3 on Jul 23, 2014 1:50:50 GMT -5
According to both Wikipedia and IMDB, it was during the last season that they switched to R&R. Also IMDB trivia says “there was a new look America’s Top 10 that ran for one season but was canceled in 1993.” (narrated by Richard Blade)…never saw that one. Does it mean he was an anouncer like Charlie Tuna had been or a host like Casey, Siedah Garrett & Tommy Puett? I started watching AT10 first in 1983, Saturdays at lunchtime on WNEW-TV (Channel 5 in New York). The last show I saw in the original run was, I think was over a Cleveland/Akron, OH affiliate around 91/92 with Siedah Garrett hosting during my last year in Akron U. www.imdb.com/title/tt0080190/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2014 4:40:57 GMT -5
The show I saw with Casey as host ceased in August or maybe early September 1992. Charlie Tuna was the announcer on it. I have never heard of this other AT10 and makes me wonder if it ever actually aired or was in the lineage of the same show. I say that because I wasn't watching those last few months via a local affiliate. I watched them on my fathers gigantic satellite dish. I knew via a subscription he had to "Orbit" I think was the name of the magazine, when and where the wild feed aired of the show. Wild Feeds are the time and date that stations with clearance to carry the shows would record it for their own upcoming broadcasts. This one aired Wednesday at noon or 12:30 IIRC. I taped them since I was in school at the time. Then one week it wasn't there anymore. It was just static and that same week Casey stopped mentioning the show and he was signing off CT40. So I say all that to say it isn't like a local affiliate found out Casey wasn't hosting and dropped it. The wild feed stopped and there'd be no real reason to stop it if the show existed any longer.
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Post by jlthorpe on Jul 23, 2014 5:51:45 GMT -5
The switch to R&R had to have happened after the beginning of 1992. I remember watching an AT10 show in early 1992 and they were giving a rundown of the #1s so far that year, and they matched up with Billboard. But no matter when the show switched to R&R, it's still weird he hosted a TV show that used the Hot 100 at the same time he hosted CT40.
I think I remember watching that AT10 revival from 1993. There was a music show on TV around that time hosted by a British guy (I'm assuming that was Richard Blade, since he's British), although I'm not sure if it was the same show since I don't remember it being a countdown. There was also another show at that time (it might have been a different episode of the same show, I'm not sure) co-hosted by a young Kelly Ripa. These shows both aired in the New York City area (probably on WNYW, which used to be the channel rayshae3 watched AT10 on).
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Post by rayshae3 on Jul 24, 2014 6:09:52 GMT -5
There’s another interesting IMDB page that reveals even more than we knew about the last season(s) of America’s Top 10: The Company Credits www.imdb.com/title/tt0080190/companycredits?ref_=tt_dt_coNow, if you look at the “Distributors” part, all dates regarding US airings end in 1992. But the distributor in the UK is ITV (the main British commercial TV entity as opposed to the non-commercial BBC channels.) ITV started airing Casey’s America’s Top 10 only in 1987 in Britain, but continued the show till 1993, while it already ceased in 1992 in the US (not unlike what would happen with Shadoe’s AT40 on the radio side towards its end, getting canceled domestically in ’94, but continuing being aired overseas until Jan. 95). So this so-called “revival” might be why we had the Brit Richard Blade hosting it. One more thing, this page also has under “Other Companies” associated with the show:Billboard between 1980-1991 and R&R for 1992 exclusively, jlthorpe was correct when he said The switch to R&R had to have happened after the beginning of 1992. And paul was right as well about the show ceasing (domestically) in 1992. Any of our British pro-board members ever recall seeing AT10 on ITV especially during its last season? |
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Post by adam31 on Jul 30, 2014 9:38:28 GMT -5
One more thing, this page also has under “Other Companies” associated with the show:Billboard between 1980-1991 and R&R for 1992 exclusively, jlthorpe was correct when he said The switch to R&R had to have happened after the beginning of 1992. And paul was right as well about the show ceasing (domestically) in 1992. Any of our British pro-board members ever recall seeing AT10 on ITV especially during its last season? This page is incorrect about R&R, here's a link to the April 18, 1992 show, and alas, it's still using the Billboard chart: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW0sYNs9GF4 |
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Post by mkarns on Jul 30, 2014 12:11:49 GMT -5
I remember AT10 using R&R at the very end; in May 1992 Casey hosted a show that had En Vogue's "My Lovin'" at #1; using the Hot 100 it would have been Kris Kross' "Jump." #2 was "One" by U2. I don't know why they would change charts for such a short time (I've seen March/April 1992 shows that still used the Hot 100, even though by then AT40 with Shadoe was no longer doing so), but they did.
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Post by rayshae3 on Sept 13, 2014 15:46:06 GMT -5
In 9/13/80 (this weekend’s premiere edition of AT40/the 80s) issue of Billboard thru GoogleBooks, there’s a small 4-paragraph article promoting a special on TV’s “America’s Top 10”. Page 6, column 2, under “’America’s Top 10’ Looks Into History”.
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Post by Jeffster on Sept 27, 2014 9:54:55 GMT -5
Actually, you're both right. (Or both wrong.  ) AT10 DID switch to R&R charts for a while, it was in 1991. But then they switched BACK to Billboard in 1992. I don't know the exact dates for either switch, but they both happened, I'm sure of it. I understand why they would make the move to R&R, not only cost-cutting by removing the fee paid to Billboard, but also lining up the chart with the one Casey was counting down on the radio. My only guess for the switch back would be either they got a lot of complaints from viewers or BB offered them a discount. The only other factor was that by then the Hot 100 was an all-computerized chart (Soundscan and Broadcast Data Systems) so maybe those in charge decided it was a better reflection of what was popular in the country than the R&R radio airplay chart. |
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Sept 28, 2014 5:23:29 GMT -5
I definitely remember the exact date that America's Top 10 switched to the R&R chart. It was May 9, 1992, and I definitely remember Casey Kasem mentioning that the show switched to a new source at the beginning of that show. And it was the beginning of the end of America's Top 10 as we know it.
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Post by top40collector on Sept 28, 2014 9:24:29 GMT -5
I used to watch and record it on WHCT Channel 18
Hartford Conn on my long range tv fm outside antenna.
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) AT10 DID switch to R&R charts for a while, it was in 1991. But then they switched BACK to Billboard in 1992. I don't know the exact dates for either switch, but they both happened, I'm sure of it.
