I have the year-end shows from 1980 and 1981 on tape. Let me check to see if I can find any WWID airchecks.
I also heard (in the past year) Casey plugging WWID as an AT40 affiliate on one of the iHeartRadio shows. This was during a 1981 show.
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I have the year-end shows from 1980 and 1981 on tape. Let me check to see if I can find any WWID airchecks.
I also heard (in the past year) Casey plugging WWID as an AT40 affiliate on one of the iHeartRadio shows. This was during a 1981 show.
Not to belabor the point, but again, I was part of the air staff at both stations back-to-back during the period and remember the particulars well.
AT40 granted market exclusivity and to my knowledge it ran on WFOX all the up to the format flip when Shamrock took over.
There was a time when Casey had a contract dispute and left AT40 (replaced by Shadoe Stevens) and effectively switched stations in a lot of markets with his AT40 competitor Casey's Top 40.
That was in the late 80's, though, and both Gainesville stations had moved on in format and ownership.
The only way I can imagine Casey ever being heard on 106.7 would have been possibly with his AC based Top 20 show during the couple years the station was branded as Lite 106 before going country as Y-106.
AT40 celebrates 50 years this weekend. Seacrest did a tribute to the 50th anniversary on the countdown this weekend. Even heard an updated “the hits from coast to coast.” Hope they keep that bumper.
Really...? Have been waiting for years now... Checking back because I'd love to hear your alternative reality audio of that. Produce it.
That really seems kind of nasty...I guess I really haven't had time to go through my old cassettes due to better things to do. Now you're going to make me want to look for it
I will say this--I was listening to the old AT40 shows on iHeartRadio and the show for the week ending October 10, 1981 lists WWID as an affiliate. Pete Battistini also mentions this in his book By Pete Battistini: American Top 40 with Casey Kasem (The 1980s): Pete Battistini: Amazon.com: Books .
The 10/10/81 show is in the rotation on iHeartRadio, last aired Monday 3/29/21. So it should come back up soon if you want to hear it. Someone posts the rotation every week here Facebook 小组
Certainly not trying to be "nasty" Jabba, but yes, probably too much of a jovial smart ass.That really seems kind of nasty...I guess I really haven't had time to go through my old cassettes due to better things to do. Now you're going to make me want to look for it
I will say this--I was listening to the old AT40 shows on iHeartRadio and the show for the week ending October 10, 1981 lists WWID as an affiliate. Pete Battistini also mentions this in his book By Pete Battistini: American Top 40 with Casey Kasem (The 1980s): Pete Battistini: Amazon.com: Books .
The 10/10/81 show is in the rotation on iHeartRadio, last aired Monday 3/29/21. So it should come back up soon if you want to hear it. Someone posts the rotation every week here Facebook 小组
I appreciate all your contributions here, for the record.
It's just never lined up with the timelines I remember/worked at both those stations, is all.
My big regret in all this is having NOT snagged a few (dozen) copies of both AT40 and Weekly Top 40 w/ Mark Elliot on disc during all those years. We'd keep a couple weeks in reserve as once in a blue moon USPS would not deliver the new one on time, rare for those days (it would never be on time today), but after that they were all trashed.
A crying shame.
Casey was truly a one of a kind talent, with a signature voice like no other.
He could bolster and hype and then get quiet with the very best of them, and all the while sound 110% sincere.
I really miss him, and I miss those days.
This week’s classic AT40 from 1988 mentions Z-93 WZGC Atlanta. This is a little past midway in hour 3.
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No worries!
Z-93 did have some kind of contest for a bit where they would give away the LP set for the show that week. It only ran for a few weeks; I'm guessing that ABC/Watermark put the quietus on that.
There are a bunch of avid collectors of those disc sets.
are you sure? I always thought AT 40 was about the established downloaded and purchased hits.
IMHO if you start promoting "new" music that has not made it (if ever) to the top 40 yet or "bubbling" just under the top 40 with lot of unit sales you loose the "integrity" of the show. The show has been very successful telling us what is popular.
IMHO if you start promoting "new" music that has not made it (if ever) to the top 40 yet or "bubbling" just under the top 40 with lot of unit sales you loose the "integrity" of the show. The show has been very successful telling us what is popular.
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