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Casey Kasem`s classic American Top 40 not heard in the Atlanta Market!!!!!

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I would really enjoy hearing Casey Kasem`s Classic American Top 40 radio show in Atlanta. Many markets are now airing the 1970-1978 years totally remastered! They really sound great and it is a shame that nobody in Atlanta is airing them. I believe that Westwood One is the company to contact about airing.
 
Goodtimesandgreatoldies said:
I would really enjoy hearing Casey Kasem`s Classic American Top 40 radio show in Atlanta. Many markets are now airing the 1970-1978 years totally remastered! They really sound great and it is a shame that nobody in Atlanta is airing them. I believe that Westwood One is the company to contact about airing.
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I was going to ask if anyone knew of a station here that carries AT40.

When I'm in Ohio I get two stations that carry it (Majic 105.7 WMJI Cleveland and Big 106.1 WBBG Niles/Warren/Youngstown). I was also surprised to find that WBBG still does a Doo Wop show on Sunday evenings.

WMJI - http://www.wmji.com/

WBBG - http://www.wbbgfm.com/

AT40 chart lists for each week - http://www.wbbgfm.com/pages/pp_caseykasem.html

I'm surprised at how Atlanta radio still sucks compared to NE OH. When I'm in Atlanta I spend most of the time listening to CD's or my iPod.
 
I was visiting Charleston back in August during one weekend and one of their FM's carry the Classic
American Top 40 countdown. My two cents- I found, even for a much smaller market, that the FM's
overall in Charleston are much better than Atlanta.

Most of my radio listening here is through on-line internet streaming outside Georgia, or listening
to CD's also.
 
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT40#Reairing_of_older_shows for a lot of info.

AT40 (current and old shows) is syndicated by Premiere (CC), not Westwood One. If CC wanted to harass Cox and the River, they could syndicate AT40 to True Oldies, since CC has no direct competitors to True Oldies in ATL, unlike Cox.

The old shows are on satellite as well, although they don't air as much on XM since the Sirius merger. You used to be able to pick up either a 70s or 80s show most times on the weekends. Now all you get Sunday afternoon is Martha Quinn instead of an 80s show, and the night shows have been moved to less-listened times.
 
I understand it is an AC show. B98.5 would be the only station that would be able to carry it, and they probably will not, unless their research starts telling them otherwise.

It is on WQTU/Rome (Q102.3) if you can get the signal in the Northwest suburbs. It is on Saturday nights I think.

When AC competition returns to Atlanta...you might hear it then.
 
I was talking about the old shows.
 
Casey hung his hat up in July of this year in a surprise, no notice, retirement announcement. There is an AT40 Hot AC version hosted by Seacrest as well as other Hot AC countdowns hosted by Rick Dees and Billy Bush. I have only heard Dees' Hot AC version these days. I don't think his Top 40 version is heard anywhere but on Rick.com.

Speaking of Atlanta countdown history...I asked this a long time ago but who played Rick Dees and Casey Kasem throughout the 70s, 80s, 90s?

I know of 1993 and forward - Star 94 was the only player in town with Dees on Sunday nights.

Around 2000...Peach 94.9 played Casey Kasem's AT20 on Sundays from 12pm-3pm and around 2004 when Seacrest took over AT40 it went to 3pm-6pm and became AT10 until 94.9 Lite FM died after Christmas 2006. Then Star in January 2004 picked up Seacrest on Saturday nights from 8pm-12am then went to 7pm-11pm to allow for the Saturday Night Party Mix from 11pm-1am and then ended up on Sundays from 8am-12pm in October of 2007 after the new PD took over and killed Dees at the same time on Sunday nights and brought in Dawson McCallister.

I do remember Hollywood Hamilton's Rhythmic Top 30 countdown being played on the Beat on Sunday mornings right after it converted to Rhythmic for about two years and Hollywood Hamilton's Top 30 countdown on Q100 from around 2005 to about the time Cumulus took over and Bert's Hometown Countdown started. I noticed Twist went away a few months ago as well.

I seem to remember Billy Bush coming on right after Cumulus took over Q100 and that was officially the end of the mainstream top 40 sound of Q100. Was that right about the time Q switched to 99.7?

Anyway just recalling the good old days. If anyone seems to recall anything else...please post.
 
Z-93, 97 FOX, and Wide 107 all played AT40 in the late 70s/early 80s. I think all of them had Casey until each of them flipped from top 40 to classic rock, AC, and AC, respectively. IIRC that includes the Shadoe Stevens days on Z-93.

Z-93 and Wide 107 had AT40 from 10a-2p and 6p-10p. 97 FOX had it from 2p-6p. So, you could listen to AT40 for 12 hours straight.

I want to say that 94Q, and/or later Power 99, had Rick Dees, but I am not sure about that. I don't recall anyone carrying Rick Dees during Z-93's top 40 heyday.
 
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