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Post by domino5s on Feb 17, 2008 11:38:14 GMT -5
On 2/3/08, the Denver affiliate played the countdown from 2/1/75. When they got back from the break after #3, they completed the show with #2 and #1 from the previous week's 1/26/74 show.
On 2/10/08, when the 2/11/78 countdown played, they cut out the segments with #13 - #10.
The station promotes Sundays as "Seventies Sunday's," so whenever Casey plays an AT40 Extra that doesn't date from '70-'79 (which is often), the station deletes them from the countdown.
This question may have been asked before, but I can't find it in a previous thread: Can anyone tell me how the radio stations receive the AT40: The 70's program? Is it shipped to them on CDs? Is my radio station just being "sloppy"?
We should all give major kudos to Shannon for the excellent remastering job. The XM shows all come out perfect--unless they are having one of their rare computer issues.
Steve
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Post by pzimm7700 on Feb 17, 2008 12:02:23 GMT -5
I do not regularly listen to either of the hisoric AT40 weekly shows but I will do my best to tell you in my experience in this hellhole of Jacksonville and the crappy stations around here what happens. First off, about the extras, not totally sure about this but extras are only the optional segment, correct? If so, then when they are not aired you really aren't missing anything. I am someone who hates the way they are produced so if they never aired it would be no loss for me. Second, I believe according to Scott,the show is downloaded every week and is not sent out on CD. Third, about the screwup, well, it could be one of two things. A lot of stations use an automatic downloading system. This next part may or may not happen, it's just kind of bits and pieces I have heard and put together, whether correctly or not I dont know. But I think when these automatically download, they also automatically replace the existing show in the timeslot that it is set up to do. So, if some system error occurs, something triggers the download to stop, or if they entire show is not uploaded at the time the download stops it doesn't get those files obviously. And if no one goes behind to check it, it doesn't get caught. And in most cases, when these shows air now there is someone who really doesn't care monitoring it or no one is there at all and it is automated. Plus, even if there was someone there who noticed the mistake, what could they really do about it? It's not like the days of getting 4 CD's and LP's when you could go to an emergency commercial break, PSA, or station ID while you got said records or LP's to the right place. I have heard all kinds of errors here based on this type of thing. The local CC owned Top 40 station would air the correct Rick Dees show one week, a repeat the next, a new one the next, repeat that one next, play half of the wrong week the next, etc. Finally I emailed to ask about it when I saw this was a recurring issue and low and behold it was a computer issue they got corrected. Then, there is local country legendary screwup channel WQIK. Who would screw up ACC weekly when I used to listen to the show by having scratchy segments (and before anyone ask, it was the same point in every weeks show), or they would cut it off at midnight whether the show was done or not...and I don't mean closing credits, I mean #3 could be playing because the guy in the booth until 8pm decided to play music beyond 8pm and the show was now running over and they fade the show out. And then there was the infamous December 31, 2005 - January 1, 2006 debacle. Rather than tell it all I will just post the link to it here, just read Paul's posts: at40fg.proboards12.com/index.cgi?board=generalmusic&action=display&thread=1136034120&page=2if you want to read all the hilarity of that day read the whole thread....and here is some more fallout from that local radio station incident: at40fg.proboards12.com/index.cgi?board=generalmusic&action=display&thread=1136504151 |
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