I used to listen to AT40 on Sunday Mornings, I think it was Casey or Rick, don't remember
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If it was Rick, it wasn't AT40.
Two and a half years—-October 1988 to March 1991.
Love X100, hate to see it fail
why DID it fail?
Didn't X100 give the world one time Dees sidekick Ellen K?
X100 never aired American Top 40 with Shadoe Stevens. They aired Casey's Top 40 with Casey Kasem on Sundays and for a short time aired the Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 Countdown on Saturday mornings.
I think part of the problem was that it was one mainstream CHR replacing another (KYUU) that itself hadn't done well in a long time.
KYUU had a hot streak, ratingswise, breaking a 4 share in Winter 1985 and ranking 4th with a 3.8 in the Spring 1985 book (behind only KGO, KCBS and KSOL. KMEL started eating its lunch in 1987, and when Emmis bought it in 1988, KMEL was already heavily rythmic. so it chose a (mostly) mainstream CHR approach.
At the end of a year, X-100 was 11th with a 2.7 (about the same number it inherited from KYUU), while KMEL was third with a 4.9.
At the end of two years, they'd slipped to 12th with a 2.6 and KMEL was still third ---this time with a 5.2.
That's when Emmis sold to Bedford. X-100's last book was a 1.4.
I recorded the loop before they became KFRC
lost it in the move
lost it in the move
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