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Post by palmer7 on Jun 27, 2020 13:35:52 GMT -5
Does anyone have any information about the "great radio stations" Casey's Countdown was heard on?
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Jun 27, 2020 15:29:06 GMT -5
I have many of the early shows, so I can give them a listen to find out what stations were mentioned.
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Post by MEF on Jul 4, 2020 21:50:23 GMT -5
WKQI 95.5 FM in Detroit Michigan aired Casey's Countdown from April 4, 1993 until the premiere of Casey's Hot 20 in November 1994. WIOG 102.5 in Saginaw, Michigan aired the show sometime in late 1992 to the mid 90s. KBIG in Los Angeles was one of the early affiliates,
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Post by palmer7 on Jul 8, 2020 13:13:02 GMT -5
WIOG 102.5 in Saginaw, Michigan aired the show sometime in late 1992 to the mid 90s. A CHR station airing an AC countdown? Strange. |
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Aug 31, 2020 13:21:17 GMT -5
On the inaugural show dated 3/7/1992, Casey mentioned these radio stations:
Hour 1: Y105 (Mansfield, OH), KITE FM (Newport, OR), Mix 94 (Avalon, NJ)
Hour 2: Mix 93 (Kansas City, MO), 98.5 FM "The Cat" (Catskill, NY), 96.7 TSA (Brattleboro, VT)
Hour 3: KS95 (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN), Q108 (Clarksville, TN), 94 FM (Franklin, NH)
Without Googling, Casey often didn't mention call letters. But this is a start.
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Post by Mike on Sept 2, 2020 22:40:05 GMT -5
WIOG 102.5 in Saginaw, Michigan aired the show sometime in late 1992 to the mid 90s. A CHR station airing an AC countdown? Strange. Not exactly...turns out WIOG was flirting with a Hot AC orientation as early as May 1992; they're cited in the 5/29/92 issue of R&R as moving their format in an Adult direction. (One of the earliest prime examples of this, following that, is their being one of the top supporters of Peter Cetera's "Restless Heart", which peaked at #26 CHR but hit the top on AC; he made it as high as #2 on their weekly playlists, bested by only one station that I can see at any point that gave him time at #1.) [ETA: Turns out that Peter did reach the top of their playlist after all for a week, in an issue I came up to a week or two after typing this.] I'm curious to see when R&R takes them off the CHR panel - at the latest, it'd be 4/22/94 when they debuted their Hot AC section, but there's a chance it comes sooner, as WIOG had a CHR rival that was truly a CHR in the form of WTCF. WTCF isn't panel-listed yet at this point in 1992, but that'll be coming soon. (WTCF, incidentally, was cited as an AT40 affiliate upon their 1998 return, but they went rogue with their format in the middle of 1999. No idea if WTCF would have been a Casey's Top 40 affiliate prior to the return, though it'd make sense.) One last thing: WIOG being a Casey's Countdown affiliate puts them in the club of stations who were carrying multiple hosts in some form - assuming record-keeping was fully accurate; they're read as an AT40 affiliate on 3/5/1994. Carrying one AC show and one CHR show would be a strange concept, but one could say this was just how it was for Hot AC stations before their format was fully-designated and recognized. |
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Post by Mike on Sept 5, 2020 20:39:22 GMT -5
...well, that didn't take long.  Turns out WTCF were added to the CHR panel in the 8/28/92 issue of R&R. For now, they're both on the panel. They were in the 8/14 issue because two of the station's owners apparently cashed out their stock...or something like that. I'll let someone who's more knowledgeable about radio sales transactions take a stab at it. worldradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/1990s/1992/RR-1992-08-14.pdf#page=7 |
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Turns out WTCF were added to the CHR panel in the 8/28/92 issue of R&R. For now, they're both on the panel.