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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Nov 17, 2021 19:22:49 GMT -5
Working again, and next Wednesday night too. Been stuck on Wednesday evenings this whole month. Hopefully I'll have a show to listen to when I get home.
I just recently listened to the ACC 1984 year-end. Now over halfway through 1985.
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Post by mellongraig on Nov 24, 2021 19:06:48 GMT -5
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Nov 24, 2021 22:29:28 GMT -5
Still trying to narrow down which show debuted the new 1989 jingles. The last 1989 show to air (8/12) also had them, and I have 7/15 in my collection, which still has the 1986 jingles. So the earliest change would be 7/22...which if it was, would be exactly 11 years after the very first ACC jingle change, on 7/22/1978 (which is heard all the way through either spring or summer 1982). Maybe someday I'll own the whole classic ACC library. Until then... |
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Dec 1, 2021 19:05:06 GMT -5
Tonight, KFYZ is featuring the 12/2/1978 show. ETA: Promos for the 1978 year-end countdown are also heard throughout, which had expanded to 7 hours (over 2 weeks). The 1977 year-end was only 6 hours. It wasn't until 1984 that ACC broadcasted the year-end show over a single week, which was the year after AT40 did the same. |
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Post by mellongraig on Dec 1, 2021 19:42:07 GMT -5
We'll have to see if KFYZ will air any year-end countdown shows, whether if it's a 1 or 2 week span, and whether if they choose to air them at the regular Wednesday time or at special time slots.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Dec 8, 2021 19:06:22 GMT -5
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Post by mellongraig on Dec 8, 2021 20:55:56 GMT -5
Year-end countdown show promos are now being heard in full force, it's this time of year again when at that time it was the Top 100 split up into two parts (with one part occurring on a frozen chart week) before it became 1 big year-end countdown in a week which would be when Billboard freezed their chart that week until the early 90s when movement still happened during the year-end shows.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Dec 8, 2021 23:04:22 GMT -5
Here's how ACC/CT40* aired their year-end shows:
1973-1977: 2 shows, 3 hours each
1978: 2 shows, 7 hours total (Part 1 three hours, Part 2 four hours)
1979: 1 show, 4 hours (top 50, like AT40, followed by top 50 of the decade)
1980-1983: 2 shows, 7 hours total (same as 1978)
1984: 1 show, 8 hours
1985-1998: 1 show, 7 hours
1999: 1 show, 4 hours (followed by a special 4-hour presentation of the top country hitmakers on Billboard)
2000-2020*: 1 show, 4 hours (top 50)
2000 also had a 4-hour special following the year-end; the Top 40 country hits of the past four decades, which really were the top 10 hits each from the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.
* - Beginning with the 2005 year-end, Bob Kingsley started the Country Top 40, with the same year-end setup as ACC at the time, counting down the year's top 50 hits in one single 4-hour show.
Top 100: 1973-1978, 1980-1998
Top 50: 1979, 1999, 2000-present
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Post by mellongraig on Dec 8, 2021 23:54:33 GMT -5
Also starting with the 2015 year-end show, extras were included to spice things up a bit.
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Post by mellongraig on Dec 15, 2021 19:11:48 GMT -5
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Post by briguy52748 on Dec 20, 2021 17:50:25 GMT -5
Here's how ACC/CT40* aired their year-end shows: 1973-1977: 2 shows, 3 hours each 1978: 2 shows, 7 hours total (Part 1 three hours, Part 2 four hours) 1979: 1 show, 4 hours (top 50, like AT40, followed by top 50 of the decade) 1980-1983: 2 shows, 7 hours total (same as 1978) 1984: 1 show, 8 hours 1985-1998: 1 show, 7 hours 1999: 1 show, 4 hours (followed by a special 4-hour presentation of the top country hitmakers on Billboard) 2000-2020*: 1 show, 4 hours (top 50) 2000 also had a 4-hour special following the year-end; the Top 40 country hits of the past four decades, which really were the top 10 hits each from the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. * - Beginning with the 2005 year-end, Bob Kingsley started the Country Top 40, with the same year-end setup as ACC at the time, counting down the year's top 50 hits in one single 4-hour show. Top 100: 1973-1978, 1980-1998 Top 50: 1979, 1999, 2000-present Incidentally, for those who still follow along with ACC as hosted by Kix Brooks, the initial setup was 40 songs in four hours, but this was later scaled back to 30 sometime in the 2010s, with songs that "didn't quite make the top 30" included as extras. As for the setups: * 1973-1977 shows had 50 songs in each half. * 1978 and 1980-1983 typically had its first three hours with 100-58 or 100-57. The 1978 show was the first to feature snippets of all the No. 1 songs from the past year in a 4-minute (or so) montage; in (at least) the 1978 and 1980 shows, this was also included at the end of the first half of the show. (FTR, I am also guessing there was a brief pause after the last song of hour three before the closing theme in case a station wanted to run the show as a full seven-hour special, as there was when AT40 split its year-end shows, for those affiliates wanting to collate both parts into one eight-hour special.) (Incidentally, at least the Dec. 20, 1975 ACC had teasers with snippets of No. 1 songs from the past year, usually three or four songs per tease, as Bowman promoted the year-end show. On the Dec. 14, 1974, show, Bowman would typically list the names of four or five songs each time he teased that year's show; I don't know at this time about 1973, 1976 or 1977, other than just generic "tune in the week of (whatever) for the year-end show"-type promos.) The "year-end" montage was included through at least Kingsley's last year-end show in 2018. In the last few years (2015, I'm guessing), this was changed from playing all the No. 1 songs to including just 25 songs. The 2005 ACC year-ender (hosted by Michael Jay) and all Kix Brooks versions dispensed with the year-end montage, as this feature was carried over to Kingsley's new CT40 show. * The only eight-hour special, aired in 1984, also included a compilation of the No. 1 songs from the previous 30 years (1953-1983), in between Nos. 47 and 46. Incidentally, that show had Nos. 100-48 in the first four hours, and 47-1 (plus the special "30 years of No. 1 hits" and usual "No. 1 hits of the past year" montages) included. * 1985-1998 was the familiar seven-hour, 100 song countdown. Usually, the pattern was 100-86, 85-72, 71-57, 56-43, 42-29, 28-14 and 13-1, although this varied slightly from year to year. This was roughly similar to 1978 and 1980-1983. * 1999-onward pattern was usually 50-38, 37-25, 24-13 and 12-1 ... roughly similar to 1979 (although that year's Hour 3 ran 24-12 and Hour 4 had 11-1). Brian |
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Post by briguy52748 on Dec 21, 2021 11:36:38 GMT -5
And just like the 1982 show, the jingle package is the same for 9/24/1983. I think once 1984 came is when it changed again. Yes, indeed. I wonder if they changed around the same time as AT40, which was 1/14. The only regular show I have for 1984 is 6/30, and the jingles were changed by then. I have the January 28, 1984 show and the 1984 music package was in use no later than that program. (Although my guess is what you indicated ... Jan. 14, 1984 was the first show with the new theme, commercial cues, etc.) ACC also briefly had new number cues, but these reverted at some point in 1984 to the ones used since the late 1970s before finally being retired in lieu of new number cues in February 1986 (shortly after the 1986 package was introduced for the Feb. 1, 1986 show). |
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Dec 22, 2021 19:00:05 GMT -5
Just tuned in to KFYZ, and they're already late in Hour 2 of the Christmas In America from 2009. Shucks.
I have the CIA program from 1998. These are 6 hours long.
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Post by mellongraig on Dec 22, 2021 19:18:11 GMT -5
We'll have to see if WSM-AM this Saturday will do a Christmas In America of their own for CT40 since they normally air the show at 10am Central. Problem is the show lasts 6 hours so scheduling might have to be adjusted to accomodate it. Otherwise they just might run special Christmas programming. Speaking of the 2009 CIA... www.charismusicgroup.com/ACC%20Cue%20Sheets/CT40%202009-1219%20CIA.pdf |
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Post by mellongraig on Dec 25, 2021 11:08:33 GMT -5
What a surprise - a regular show on Christmas. But it's a rerun which isn't at all surprising from 4/1/2006 yet again, though WSM is one of those rare stations that plays regular music on the 25th. Maybe after the new year they'll add some new shows. charismusicgroup.com/ACC%20Cue%20Sheets/CT40%202006-0401.pdfKFYZ on the other hand if it comes to upcoming Wednesday may start the show 3 hours earlier than expected due to year-end special programming, on the CIA show they started about 2 hours earlier than usual. |
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