Has KJR-FM dumped AT40 - the 70's as part of their format flip? The link for it is gone from KJR's home page.
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AT40 - the 70's gone?
- Thread starter Lonely Summer
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Yeah they did but I'm assuming it's only temporary until they go back to their Classic Hits format. There's an AT40 board that I've been following for the past 3 years. I've learned from it that this is a pretty common practice around the country and while it annoys the crap out of a lot of people for a few weeks, the stations almost always resume AT40 after the holidays. With KJR-FM's typically stellar ratings I thought we'd be immune from this stunt but obviously not.
http://at40fg.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=classic (see "Christmas pre-emptions")
http://at40fg.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=classic (see "Christmas pre-emptions")
my oh my, almost 2 months of Christmas music. wonder who the genius is that gave this the rubber stamp.
why not just get it over with and do a Christmas music stunt 24/7/365, and get it over with.....
on that AT 40: just get XM/sirius. its broadcast on the 70's channel every sunday morning, w/o commercials
problem solved for 12.95 per mo.
why not just get it over with and do a Christmas music stunt 24/7/365, and get it over with.....
on that AT 40: just get XM/sirius. its broadcast on the 70's channel every sunday morning, w/o commercials
problem solved for 12.95 per mo.
This is silly. I'll be writing a letter to KJR to let them know how disappointed I am. As a kid, I remember only hearing Christmas songs on the radio a couple of weeks before the holiday. Now we're going for overkill. I don't need to hear those songs in the middle of November. Ray Davies had a Thanksgiving Day song a few years ago, and there's always Alice's Restaurant Massacre with Arlo Guthrie. I think a T-Day album is long overdue!
Yes it is as bad as shopping anymore as soon as the Ghosts & Goblins have hijacked their stash of candy its time for Christmas sales and 24/7 holiday music to go with it... Of course with it being all PPM friendly I am sure they are hoping those meters stroll through a ton of stores playing that crap...
Personally I go in for more of a Twisted Christmas Approach and we might spin a few of the novelty variety and of course some that rock Christmas Eve but that is about it...
Personally I go in for more of a Twisted Christmas Approach and we might spin a few of the novelty variety and of course some that rock Christmas Eve but that is about it...
Well, I think the last few weeks have been some of the most exciting on Seattle radio in a long time. We need more shake ups like this. Keeps the blood circulating....
But back to the Christmas overkill. I kinda worry about it. If one station does it, it's tolerable. If two do it, it's nerve wracking in a way - especially this early.
And up north here, we now have FOUR choices for All Christmas mania, CFUN 104.9 and CHQM 103.5 flipped yesterday. Could KAFE and CIOC be NEXT?.....
But back to the Christmas overkill. I kinda worry about it. If one station does it, it's tolerable. If two do it, it's nerve wracking in a way - especially this early.
And up north here, we now have FOUR choices for All Christmas mania, CFUN 104.9 and CHQM 103.5 flipped yesterday. Could KAFE and CIOC be NEXT?.....
Do what I do and listen to it online all weekend long. The link is below:
http://tunein.com/radio/options/American-Top-40---The-70s-p117092/
http://tunein.com/radio/options/American-Top-40---The-70s-p117092/
scott salvatori said:
Is XM/sirius still editing the crap out of the shows.
Listeners with computers can find alot of of stations streaming the AT40's.for free.
WPPCProductions said:
no, what editing? just the commercials are edited out.
scott salvatori said:
Yes the commercials are edited out.Back before the Sirius take over.the shows were fine.After Sirius took over.the shows were hacked up.triming segments.Maybe now they stopped editing.I dumped XM/sirius 3 years ago.I got fed up with it.
hacked up and trimming segments? never noticed that. at 6 AM sunday morning when i'm on the road, i tune out the country music, and switch to AT40 @ XM/SR 70's channel. yep, they run the complete top 40. 1972 featured this last sunday. but, many stations in the 70's, edited out segments/music of AT40, according to past posts on the subject.
scott salvatori said:
It sounds like they stop doing it.
Even when those shows were new they were heavily edited.
Songs on their way down the charts we sometimes edited to less than 2 minutes to make room for the newer songs and of course the commercials and Casey segments.
The edited Classic shows are probably as they originally ran.
Also I once heard that they (Watermark Productions) did not keep a good archive of all of the original shows, thus the syndicators of the current classic shows have had to rely on airchecks saved by collectors to restore some of the shows.
Who knew in 1976 that someone would ever want to play them again!!
I still have some of the originals on Vinyl.
Songs on their way down the charts we sometimes edited to less than 2 minutes to make room for the newer songs and of course the commercials and Casey segments.
The edited Classic shows are probably as they originally ran.
Also I once heard that they (Watermark Productions) did not keep a good archive of all of the original shows, thus the syndicators of the current classic shows have had to rely on airchecks saved by collectors to restore some of the shows.
Who knew in 1976 that someone would ever want to play them again!!
I still have some of the originals on Vinyl.
Wow thats a interesting note.Thanks.notalent said:
If AT40 wanted the edited versions of the songs, all they had to do was check out the K-Tel versions of those songs! ;D
firepoint525 said:
I agree .I was thinking of the same thing.You beat me to it.
The best AT40 I ever heard was a where-are-they-now show. That would be a great one to hear again. It was a major challenge to produce in the pre-Internet days. Casey made a comment to the effect that they didn't realize how daunting the task would be. (They may have done two shows. The first one was mesmerizing.)
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