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Post by top40fan on Jun 16, 2015 16:44:53 GMT -5
Any station ever run this feature?
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Post by dukelightning on Jun 16, 2015 17:14:38 GMT -5
Yes although I never heard it myself. Paul who is a member of this board stated that he heard it back in the 90s. They were run Monday through Friday which explains why there are 5 of these tracks on a CT40 original show. Their placement on those original show files corresponds with the week they were originally aired.
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Post by RNH on Jun 16, 2015 23:18:02 GMT -5
Yes! 96.3 The Rose WRZE (no longer in existence; it's a sports station now) out of Cape Cod ran this segment. If memory serves---we're going way back to 1993 and 1994!---it way played weeknights at 8:30. By the way, CT40 ran on Sunday mornings.
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Post by top40collector on Jun 17, 2015 11:11:02 GMT -5
WQGN FM & WTIC FM played them weekday afternoon. Two radio stations was used in case it wasn't played on one of the station.
I used a Radio Shack 10 Event timer to record from a FM tuner and cassette dual quick reverse tape deck with a timer mode (record/off/play) with remote control for each radio station. I played back the daily feature unto a work in process high bias cassette tape without any commercial. About 16-20 daily shows per 90 minutes tape. About 60 tapes labeled on the insert with song, artist, and the year. I lost only 2-3 shows since I found out about it until the weekday feature stopped airing. Casey Kasem was my favorite DJ.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2015 12:09:09 GMT -5
Yes although I never heard it myself. Paul who is a member of this board stated that he heard it back in the 90s. They were run Monday through Friday which explains why there are 5 of these tracks on a CT40 original show. Their placement on those original show files corresponds with the week they were originally aired. WAPE in Jacksonville ran it for awhile at like 9:30am M-F XL 106.7 in Orlando ran it at 5:50am M-F 99.9 Kiss Fm in Daytona ran some of them during Casey's Top 40 on Sundays. What I never understood with WAPE though was how they got away with the commercial issue. I am sure WW1 didn't care if you wanted to play your own commercials in addition to theirs, and if you had a weirdly strong devoted audience (like some on this board would have been) and you wanted to play 5-10 minutes of local ads they wouldn't have cared as long as you aired the network spots. However, WAPE didn't do that. They cut the network ads out and only aired local ones. |
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Post by Shadoe Fan on Jun 17, 2015 13:48:45 GMT -5
WRZQ in Columbus, IN aired this show around 4 or 5 pm at some point in the mid 90s. That's the best my memory can do.
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Post by Mike on Jun 17, 2015 16:20:41 GMT -5
Wouldn't these have, effectively, been the same things as "America's Top Hits" once AT40 re-started in 1998? Or were these handled differently during the CT40 years?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2015 17:43:48 GMT -5
Nope, same thing only much more annoying in terms of disc placement, of course the top of hour sweep on the revived AT40 was equally so.
On WW1 the entire top of hour sweep was one long segment. The last disc contained then final 3 segments of CT40, 2 promos, and then the 5 Casey's Biggest Hits shows.
The revived AT40 would have the first song in the top of hour sweep along with the 10 second jingle bed. It would then go silent. The next disc started the top of the next hour with just Casey talking.
Meanwhile the ATH shows would be randomly placed at the end of the various discs. Might be 2 on disc 1, 1 on discs 2-4, who knows. Maybe there was the same pattern to them. I don't remember. But I do remember it being annoying it was done this way.
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Post by Mike on Jun 17, 2015 21:29:18 GMT -5
Meanwhile the ATH shows would be randomly placed at the end of the various discs. Might be 2 on disc 1, 1 on discs 2-4, who knows. Maybe there was the same pattern to them. I don't remember. But I do remember it being annoying it was done this way. If the 1998 shows that I listened to last year are any indication, those went like: 2 each at the end of discs 1-2, 1 at the end of disc 3, and the week's promos at the end of disc 4. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2015 10:48:26 GMT -5
Oh, how could I forget...apparently VOA Europe also aired some of the CBH shows during Casey's Top 40 as well.
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Post by adam31 on Jun 18, 2015 12:32:18 GMT -5
A station I worked part time at in Vincennes, IN ran this feature (America's Top Hits) during its morning show while it was airing AT20 on the weekends around 2004-2006.
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Post by dukelightning on Jun 18, 2015 13:47:14 GMT -5
This feature was also incorporated into the AC or adult shows at some point. As an example, on the 6/14/03 AT20, he played "Dreams" and after it said "that was one of the biggest hits 26 years ago this week....Dreams by Fleetwood Mac". There was no story associated with this, just a way to fill some time.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2015 18:40:36 GMT -5
It wasn't incorporated,they were always just part of the show. When Casey's Countdown began it was a top 25 countdown and was 3 hours long. They filled time with extras. As the chart length decreased, more were added. The HAC show was always a Top 20 3 hour show so plenty of extras were necessary to fill time.
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Post by charlypp on Jun 20, 2015 1:10:08 GMT -5
Telestereo 88 FM from Lima,Peru,played it M-F,I think every 2 hour back in '92 or '93....
Of course,they played the Casey's Countdown on weekend.
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Post by Hervard on Jun 21, 2015 11:53:46 GMT -5
It wasn't incorporated,they were always just part of the show. When Casey's Countdown began it was a top 25 countdown and was 3 hours long. They filled time with extras. As the chart length decreased, more were added. The HAC show was always a Top 20 3 hour show so plenty of extras were necessary to fill time. The #1 song from X years ago this week feature was added in the summer of 1994, when they cut the chart back to 20. Before then, the extra time was filled by "Casey's Countdown Extras" and "Long Distance Dedications". I believe it was around 2000 that the they started playing "one of the biggest hits from X years ago this week". I know from memory that the songs changed so that they weren't necessarily from the same time of year the week that AT20 was changed to AT10. |
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