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AT40 on XM!

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evilempirenyc

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In the new XM Signal e-mailed today, they announced Casey Kasem's American Top 40 coming to the 70's and 80's channels next weekend with a marathon of shows and then regular airings. That's great - wondered when someone would get smart and tap this source of programming for their decade channels.
 
evilempirenyc said:
In the new XM Signal e-mailed today, they announced Casey Kasem's American Top 40 coming to the 70's and 80's channels next weekend with a marathon of shows and then regular airings. That's great - wondered when someone would get smart and tap this source of programming for their decade channels.
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WOW ! This is very excellent news ! It finally gives me a reason to tune-in to '7' and '8' on my XM. I've been looking for a reason to do so ever since I got my XM. It sounds like I'll be busy next weekend tuning-in. I wonder how they will be broadcast ? For example will the original four-hour shows in their entirety be cut-back to three hours or so (minus all of the commercial breaks) ? I guess there's only one way to find out. Tune-in next weekend as Casey counts them down from coast-to-coast !

THE MAJOR
 
I love this! The old versions of AT40 were syndicated for a while. I suspect this means XM has picked up the whole package. I hope it's on at a reasonable time.
 
The original AT40's I've heard from vinyl did not include commercials like other shows such as Dr. Demento.Also, all the shows up till the beginning of 1973 or so were mono. Anyone know an exact start time for channel 7? I plan to record as much of the '70's shows as I can, probably from Directv for the beest quality.

Anyone know if they will run the oddball shows like AT40 Book of Records or the ones where they played every number one hit for the past 30 years
 
As far as I know, the Casey Kasem's AT top 40 first aired and syndicated on July 4th, 1970, out of a Drive- In restaurant.
 
Thats kewl as hell!!!!!!

The AT40 shows in the 70s will probably air on '70's on 7' and the 80s AT40 shows will air on '80's on 8' (Merging the weeks up correctly and all)

When is it gonna start?
 
Heard a promo this week saying it was supposed to start at 5:00 Eastern. It's now after 7:00 and it still hasn't started on 7 or 8.
 
Yes! I stayed up until 6:30am listening to both 7 & 8. Got up a few hours later and listened to some more. Right now it's 1985 on 8 and the number one song is Shout by Tears for Fears. YES!!!!!!! it's so nice to escape the horrors of top 40 today to really great top 40 music of 20-30 years ago.
 
sdh483 said:
Yes! I stayed up until 6:30am listening to both 7 & 8. Got up a few hours later and listened to some more. Right now it's 1985 on 8 and the number one song is Shout by Tears for Fears. YES!!!!!!! it's so nice to escape the horrors of top 40 today to really great top 40 music of 20-30 years ago.
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I just had an idea. Do you think it would be possible if XM was to add a channel that played nothing but AT40 and other countdown shows? that would be the coolest thing ever!
 
Anyone have dates for the shows aired so far on 7? I'm trying to record as many as I can, but I need dates for some of them.
 
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This is the best XM has added or re-added in a long time. I swear I get the deja vu feeling of high school when he counts it down the way it was exactly along with the intermission music of the early 70's reminds me exactly where I was, who I knew or who I was with at the very time of that particular countdown.
You really feel grateful how radio was in those days. XM should at least do these weekends once a month.
 
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The 70's are sounding like a disaster as far as missing cues, and counting the different surveys at once. It's a plane wreck and that's what happens when you automate too much, there's nobody there to fix it. XM you owe us another weekend of an AT40 marathon.
 
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apco25 said:
This is the best XM has added or re-added in a long time. I swear I get the deja vu feeling of high school when he counts it down the way it was exactly along with the intermission music of the early 70's reminds me exactly where I was, who I knew or who I was with at the very time of that particular countdown.
You really feel grateful how radio was in those days. XM should at least do these weekends once a month.
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It's really remarkable how well these old shows hold up. I know that for a while the old AT40 shows were syndicated. A station near Dallas used to play them. I think XM should make this standard programming for the weekends on 7 and 8.
 
I caught a part of a show at my job in Connecticut yesterday. I think the show in the early evening (ET) said "for the week ending August 14, 1982." Around 10 PM (ET), they were wrapping up a show from the latter part of 1986. "When I Think Of You" from Janet Jackson moved from #7 to #3 and "was #1 on the Dance Chart". There's one other distinct part of the show I want to hear them play. Once each hour, Casey would proclaim "American Top 40 is heard in the 50 states and around the world on great radio stations like...". That would be sweet! I've still got one or two of those on tape from winter and summer of 1988 (just before he left and Shadoe Stevens took over).

Speaking of "AT40", is the version done by Ryan Seacrest still around? Also, does that show use info from Billboard Magazine? If it doesn't, then I won't listen.
 
Kevin Lagasse said:
There's one other distinct part of the show I want to hear them play. Once each hour, Casey would proclaim "American Top 40 is heard in the 50 states and around the world on great radio stations like...". That would be sweet! I've still got one or two of those on tape from winter and summer of 1988 (just before he left and Shadoe Stevens took over).
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That was one of my favourite parts of each hour as well. Here's a fun game to play this weekend. Listen out for those spots each hour, and see if any of those 'great radio stations' still air AT-40 today (or even exist today). I dare you to find even one station !

Speaking of "AT40", is the version done by Ryan Seacrest still around? Also, does that show use info from Billboard Magazine? If it doesn't, then I won't listen.
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YES - It still airs 'on great radio stations like' ... [most of the Clear Channel CHR-POP stations]. They do not use the resources of either Billboard or Radio & Records for their weekly chart.

THE MAJOR
 
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tested said:
It's really remarkable how well these old shows hold up. I know that for a while the old AT40 shows were syndicated. A station near Dallas used to play them. I think XM should make this standard programming for the weekends on 7 and 8.
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I've had my XM for almost 8 months now, and I listen almost exclusively to '20 On 20' because I think it is quite simply the best hit music station that is available to me; however, this weekend I've been listening back-and-forth to '70s On 7' and '80s On 8' for the first time ever just because Casey is on there counting them down exactly as he did back in the day. Casey sounds as fresh today as he did yesteryear. He is timeless. This is the way that radio should be today.

THE MAJOR
 
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