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Atlanta Stations Carrying American Top 40

jabba17

jabba17

Listening to American Top 40 The 70s. This week's program (from 1975) called out two ATL affiliates--WFOM (which I didn't know about) and WFOX (which I did).

Besides Z-93 and Wide 107, did any other metro/exurban stations ever carry AT40? I don't think Quixie or 94Q ever did. Did Power 99 ever pick it up (or Casey's spinoff Casey's Top 40/CT40)?
 
jabba17 said:
Besides Z-93 and Wide 107, did any other metro/exurban stations ever carry AT40? I don't think Quixie or 94Q ever did. Did Power 99 ever pick it up (or Casey's spinoff Casey's Top 40/CT40)?
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Power 99 had AT40 and Casey's Top 40 1989-92. I also believe that 94Q had AT40 in 1980, but Z93 reacquired it by 1981.
 
Star 94 carried AT40 for years - at first they hacked up the CHR version and replaced the hip-hop songs with songs from their playlist, then they switched to the Hot AC version around 2009 I think
 
bclark71. said:
jabba17 said:
Besides Z-93 and Wide 107, did any other metro/exurban stations ever carry AT40? I don't think Quixie or 94Q ever did. Did Power 99 ever pick it up (or Casey's spinoff Casey's Top 40/CT40)?
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Power 99 had AT40 and Casey's Top 40 1989-92. I also believe that 94Q had AT40 in 1980, but Z93 reacquired it by 1981.
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I know that AT40 was (back) on Z-93 around April 1980 or so--that's when I started listening to it.
 
atlantaboy said:
Star 94 carried AT40 for years - at first they hacked up the CHR version and replaced the hip-hop songs with songs from their playlist, then they switched to the Hot AC version around 2009 I think
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No one carried AT40 after Power 99 went away on October 22, 1992 until Saturday, January 10, 2004 where Star 94 picked it up from 8pm to midnight. This was the first episode where Ryan Seacrest took over after Casey Kasem retired from the AT40 version. Casey stayed with the AT20(Hot AC) and AT10(AC) until July of 2009 when he retired completely from everything. Star 94 changed the time to 7pm-11pm in 2006 when Q100 moved up its Saturday night Q time slot to 11pm also. Then in October of 2007, Star 94 totally ditched the Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 countdown on Sunday nights 8pm-12midnight and moved the AT40 show to Sunday mornings 8am-noon. They didn't switch to the AT40 Hot AC version until this time last year. They did switch back and forth with the Hot AC and CHR versions of Rick Dees back and forth and they would always put their own songs in the place of songs they didn't want to play off of the countdown show. Dees was on his CHR version starting in the early 90s to 2002. They would switch back and forth between versions from the spring of 2002 to the end of 2004. They finally settled on the CHR version of Rick until it ended in 2007. Peach 94.9 played AT20(then AC version) starting in 2001. This was on Sunday's between noon and 3pm and changed 3pm to 6pm in 2005 with Today's Peach 94.9 and then became AT10 around the same time Peach switched to 94.9 Lite FM in 2006 and finally died with Lite FM after Christmas in 2006.
 
Pretty certain z-93 had AT40 from late 70s into the 80s with no interruption. They were running it Sunday mornings and evenings at one point.
 
CompleteGame said:
Pretty certain z-93 had AT40 from late 70s into the 80s with no interruption. They were running it Sunday mornings and evenings at one point.
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Z-93 and Wide 107 had it 10a-2p and 6p-10p. 97 FOX had it 2p-6p. If you could pick up Fox (this was before their move-in), you could listen to AT40 12 hours straight on Sundays.

Fox was harder to pick up before the move-in due to interference from 96 Rock on an analog tuner, plus their signal wasn't as strong as Wide 107's. Wide 107 had that end of the band to themselves--there was nothing on the dial above V-103 to speak of. 104.1 was still in LaGrange, 104.7 was still in Athens (might not have been on the air yet), 105.3 wasn't on the air, 105.7 was still at 105.5 and still in Canton, 106.1 was still in Toccoa, and 107.5 and 107.9 weren't on the air yet, either.

I'd like 106.7 to pick up AT40 The 70s (and/or The 80s) and then tune in one day and hear a callout for "WWID, Gainesville, Georgia".
 
Heard of a new one today. On AT40 The 70s today, from this week in 1973, Casey Kasem welcomed new affiliate WIIN (970).
 
RadioDoogie said:
Which station was playing the classic AT40's today?
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I was listening to KFRC out of Frisco, online.

I would love one of the local usual suspects (AGH, B98.5, Journey) to pick it up.
 
According to the AT40 The 80s this week (this week in 1987), Z-93 was still carrying the show as of 9/87.
 
All I can tell you is while passing through in Feb 1980 I heard Casey on Z93 and loved how they spliced Casey's voice saying "on Z93" in seamlessly "at number 10 it's Andy Gibb on Z93"
 
borderblaster said:
All I can tell you is while passing through in Feb 1980 I heard Casey on Z93 and loved how they spliced Casey's voice saying "on Z93" in seamlessly "at number 10 it's Andy Gibb on Z93"
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I remember that. I also remember the production values of that splice wasn't that great.
 
I'm a total old-skool radio boy, here. I still miss the old days of Casey Kasem. Hard to believe he did it all the up to 2004! Now THAT's an aircheck of his I would LOVE to have a recording of!

[[CASEY's VOICE, with his usual stress on syllables]]:

"Now, on American Top 40, moving 7 BIG NOTCHES to number 6 are Lil Jon & The Eastside Boys with the WU-TANG-CLAN..........Here's, "GET LOWWW"!

:D :D :D (LOL)!

(may be why he'd had enough, eh?)
 
electroboy73 said:
"Now, on American Top 40, moving 7 BIG NOTCHES to number 6 are Lil Jon & The Eastside Boys with the WU-TANG-CLAN..........Here's, "GET LOWWW"!
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**OOPS...MY BAD** The above song I mentioned actually features the YIN-YANG TWINS....(not WU TANG CLAN)....lol! Either way Casey said it back in 2004, it was hilarious!

;D
 
electroboy73 said:
electroboy73 said:
"Now, on American Top 40, moving 7 BIG NOTCHES to number 6 are Lil Jon & The Eastside Boys with the WU-TANG-CLAN..........Here's, "GET LOWWW"!
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**OOPS...MY BAD** The above song I mentioned actually features the YIN-YANG TWINS....(not WU TANG CLAN)....lol! Either way Casey said it back in 2004, it was hilarious!

;D
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Yea, Top 40, is definitely not what it use to be, the glory days are over. 60's, 70's were the best by far.............Its sad that will never happen again.
 
October 1982, a WHEQ in Athens. Anyone know anything about this station?
 
jabba17 said:
October 1982, a WHEQ in Athens. Anyone know anything about this station?
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Could that be WAGQ (which sounds the same if you same them out loud?) That was 104.7 when it was CHR in Athens all through the 80s. Formerly WDOL-FM in the 70s. I'm sure one of the north Georgian radio historians will be able to add the HAAT and coordinates of the tower, etc. :)
 
Q-105 W-A-G-Q Athens. (104.7). I believe the tower is on South Milledge ave at the By-pass. It's been converted into a massive cell tower.
 
I still have the recording of AT 40 from 3/18/2001 with Casey saying "and now at number 7 here's the rap duo from Atlanta...it's Outkast with Miss Jackson." Good stuff.
 
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