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Casey's AT40 is MIA
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Scott's show, despite originating at WCBS, is not internally syndicated by Entercom.
It's been a long time coming. Casey is long gone, his last show was over a decade ago, and I'm sure Entercom was just waiting for the contract with Premiere to run out.
From a PPM standpoint, it doesn't make a lot of sense to run a show where the first hour or so is filled with unfamiliar low-charting songs. It might be cool for us who remember playing some of those records on the air, but playing "Take It Easy" by Andy Taylor will cause tune-out for everyone else.
From a PPM standpoint, it doesn't make a lot of sense to run a show where the first hour or so is filled with unfamiliar low-charting songs. It might be cool for us who remember playing some of those records on the air, but playing "Take It Easy" by Andy Taylor will cause tune-out for everyone else.
Even though it's produced in-house and is a lot cheaper to run, I still don't call Scott Shannon's program "appointment radio," like a lot of people do around the old AT40 countdowns. They can probably get the same listenership running automation than with vanilla syndication that plays the same music as their normal playlist.
To me, Casey's old AT 40 is "vanilla syndication." Very formulaic. Even he changed it up in the 90s because it was so dated.
It was in a time when someone reading press releases and album jackets was considered interesting radio.
I just don't look at some guy who was well known in only a few markets playing the same old '80s songs they play on a regular basis as something to wake up on a Saturday or Sunday morning to enjoy. It's basically stuff that is there when you turn on the radio in your car. Passive programming.
But I agree with you on one point, tell me anything outside of the certain core audience of conservative talk radio where something is "appointment radio" anymore? This is why terrestrial radio is becoming more and more irrelevant -- too much competition from other forms of audio media and nothing to make it stand out.
It's bigger than that. There's no appointment TV either. People do things on their own time. The media follows my schedule, not the other way around.
And, yet, it was the only time you could guarantee 94.5 would NOT sound like 93.3. Terrible decision by 94.5 - just a terrible decision. I hate to say it, but some of the most surprising "wow" tracks you could hear on 94.5 were courtesy of some long distance dedications. PPM is basically the terrestrial radio equivalent of landlines and poodle skirts and bomb shelters.
The other option is radio will send you a bill every month, or automatically deduct money from your checking account.
Which would you prefer?
Yet are those tracks a "wow" for the average listener, or a reason to tune out? Hint: It's the latter.
And if PPM is poodle skirts and bomb shelters, then Casey's shows from the 80s are speakeasies and flappers. We live in a PPM world now, and having an hour or so of "stiffs" from 35 years ago on your station - even if it's "classic hits" - isn't going to make the meter holders stick around for another 6 minutes.
Yes, terrestrial radio is slowly dying, but putting on a decades old countdown show with a dead host isn't going to revive the old girl.
Can you point to the place on the doll where KDKB touched you?
According to KOOL's website, Shannon's show will be airing on Sat. 12/12 (from 6a-8a) and Sun. 12/13 (from 7:30a-9:30a).
However, Kasem's AT40 is still listed when you click the ON AIR column. Perhaps this change is only for December?
However, Kasem's AT40 is still listed when you click the ON AIR column. Perhaps this change is only for December?
Agreed bulwnkl, and well said. 
Here’s the story of AT40s resurgence.
When PD of XM 80s On 8 2000 ~ 2006 I received an Email from an early adopter who was a PD at a small station in Oklahoma.
He saved EVERY disc with cue sheets from debut in 70s and until late ‘87 when the breakup occurred.
He sent me ALL on CDs ~ Steve Grosz inherited my 80s copies ~ and ran for a few months until BB approved a $25K licensing fee then Premiere bought the rights.
I still have the 70s discs in storage and the original #1 that first aired on my hometown station WPGC that I was fortunate to return in ‘81 after Y-100 ~ PM drive.
And there you have the rest of the story.
BK 🌵😎
When PD of XM 80s On 8 2000 ~ 2006 I received an Email from an early adopter who was a PD at a small station in Oklahoma.
He saved EVERY disc with cue sheets from debut in 70s and until late ‘87 when the breakup occurred.
He sent me ALL on CDs ~ Steve Grosz inherited my 80s copies ~ and ran for a few months until BB approved a $25K licensing fee then Premiere bought the rights.
I still have the 70s discs in storage and the original #1 that first aired on my hometown station WPGC that I was fortunate to return in ‘81 after Y-100 ~ PM drive.
And there you have the rest of the story.
BK 🌵😎
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Casey has his own channel on the IHeart redio app. All Casy 24/7Casey's still played on SXM Channel 7 on Saturday and Sunday mornings, isn't it?
Hey...nice to see Bruce resurface! The Nurse and I sorely miss BruceRadio 13~Ten since the waning days of whoever owned KZZP at that time. And thanks to BK, we picked up an XM radio for our '76 Gremlin. That dang thing works a lot better than the Gremlin (see below), but we miss Terry "MotorMouth" Young and his Top 40 station recreations on Sixties on Six.
BK...swing by the Media Hut and we'll comp you our two page book "Everything We Know About Radio". It's a lot easier to get through than what you see on the Hallmark channel!
Dr Akbar & Nurse Jeff
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