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American Top 40, heard on great radio stations like...

Actually CGY picked it up in September 1976.
The #1 Hot 100 hit was the Beegees You should be Dancing which was also #1 on the Dance club play charts.

Do you think any station would do AT40 using the Hot 100 today?
 
RadBos said:
AT 40 was first on in Boston on WMEX 1510. WMEX was one of the original 5 stations that first broadcasted him on July 4th 1970. It remained on WMEX until the Spring of 1975. It was off the Boston airwaves for about 2 years. WCGY picked it up around I think late Spring/early Summer 1977. While it was on WCGY, WROR 98.5 picked it up around 1980. They ran it till about 1985 when it probably was taken off ROR by the ABC networks when they forced AT 40 outlets to also pick up inventory from the ABC Radio Networks. When they resisted, ABC moved them to another outlet. That's how it ended up on WBZ since they were an ABC Radio affiliate station. WCGY dropped it around Spring 1987. WBZ ran it for a few years and it was picked up by WZOU around 1987. WZOU picked up Casey's Top 40 around Spring 1989 moving AT 40 with Shadoe Stevens to Saturdays 6 AM and CT 40 to Sundays 8 AM. Both were dropped when ZOU changed to WJMN. WVBF 105.7 did pick up Casey's Top 40 for a short time after Jamn 94.5 dropped it. After that Mix 98.5 picked up Casey's Top 20 (Hot AC) for a few years. After that I think he changed networks to CC's AM/FM Radio Networks and he regained the rights to AT 40.
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Yup. that sounds right. When both 'CGY and 'ROR ran it, I believe it aired on 93-7 on Saturdays and on 98-5 on Sundays or maybe vice versa.
 
When it first started on WCGY it was on Saturdays from 9 to Noon then 1PM when it went to 4 hours and it also was on 6 to 9 PM Sundays. After a while it was only on Saturdays. ROR ran it first Sundays 9 AM to Noon/1 PM and again 6 to 9/10 PM.
They eventually ran it Saturdays back to back with Countdown America. They would load it up with spots and would turn a 4 hour countdown into an almost 5 hour countdown.

I loved when Charlie Van Dyke filled in. At the time he was doing mornings at WRKO. When WCGY ran the program, you heard him identify himself (This is Charlie Van Dyke from WRKO in Boston filling in for Casey this week). When that same program aired on WROR any mention of him and WRKO was cut out. Strange since at the time WRKO and WROR were sister stations. It happened at least 2 or 3 times.
 
I liked Shadow Stevens as host. In a story that I heard him tell, they fired him because he wanted to introduce a little personality into the program. ABC didn't want personality. They just wanted wanted him to count down records in a straight forward manner. So that was the end of Shadow on AT40.
 
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