Cumulus bought the ABC Radio Networks when it bought Citadel. The original AT40 was distributed by ABC. They retained the Casey-less AT40 shows.
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Are 1998-2003 broadcasts of American Top 40 with Casey Kasem gone forever? Or were they hidden somewhere all along?
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Cumulus bought the ABC Radio Networks when it bought Citadel. The original AT40 was distributed by ABC. They retained the Casey-less AT40 shows.
My curiosity is why the American Top 40 with Shadoe Stevens series wasn't transferred to AMFM Radio Networks if the other elements of American Top 40 were. Maybe it had something to do with Shadoe Stevens or some kind of exception.
Or perhaps with Casey not wanting the Shadoe shows.
True. Usually on the Thursday Wheel of Casey, sometimes on Saturday though. I've caught Dave Hull (the very first guest host, introduced by Don Bastani), Robert W Morgan, Mark Elliot to name the ones I remember. Terrestrial did offer Dick Clark and Gary Owens after both pf their passing
Sounds like instead of going from 0-60, he went from 40-1!
They do indeed air Casey-hosted AND guest-hosted episodes on "Wheel of Casey." You are correct about the offerings to terrestrial stations. They only seem to get any guest-hosted shows right after that guest host passes away. I remember one of them being an "extra" program on Memorial Day, I think.
No. When he started, he was an employee of Tom Rounds' and Ron Jacobs' company. He reportedly got a share of the revenue, but not ownership. The info on that is rather vague.
They used a Larry McKay-hosted episode Labor Day weekend. I thought there was one more guest-hosted Saturday show in 2023 fairly close to that but I don't recall who.
A Mark Elliot-hosted program on Memorial Day a couple of years back. He had only recently died, I think. Had to get up early on a holiday to hear it, but it was worth it!
They played Mark Elliot on Wheel of Casey shortly after he died.
I may have heard that one, too.
Is that offer good to anyone?
Someone should have suggested towards the end that the show may sound better if he did it as Shaggy. And let Scooby-Doo do the long distance dedication.
That's the letter U and the numeral 2!
(I initially embedded the Negativland sound collage with that blooper and forgot how extremely NSFW it is 😬)
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Yes, on a separate channel from the 70s-80s shows
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