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CLASSIC AT40 IS FINALLY COMING TO COLUMBIA!

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Coming in September, Carolina 92.1 will be home of "Casey Kasem's American Top 40: the 70s." It will air Saturday nights, but I didn't get the exact time or start date. I don't know why Magic 98.5 didn't pick up the show. Carolina 92.1 finally gets it right!!

Also, "Delilah" will be added to Carolina 92.1 lineup in September as well!
 
“For it to compete, it has to be local,” said Miller, who is also the morning DJ on 92.1. “Radio will need to be all local if it’s going to survive.”


This seems to be completley contradictory to what Miller said in his interview about flipping 94.3 back to Country Legends.

Does this guy ever take his own advise or even listen to himself?
 
Delilah is awful. Boring. But in some markets, she seems to work.

Not sure Classic AT 40 works on a soft AC. But what the heck...
 
It does seem like an odd choice for Soft A/C. Even though I would like to hear AT40-the 70's, it's on opposite John Landecker's "Into the 70's" on Magic and Landecker is infinitely more entertaining than Kasem.
 
Al Timiter said:
It does seem like an odd choice for Soft A/C. Even though I would like to hear AT40-the 70's, it's on opposite John Landecker's "Into the 70's" on Magic and Landecker is infinitely more entertaining than Kasem.
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I haven't heard Landecker's show, and it's probably not as good as in his WLS days, but, I gotta say unconditionally, Landecker is a GOD. Kasem is a dried up prune(which sounds really, really dry or really, really old...or both).
 
We have a station up here that carries Into the seventies and although it is nothing like his days of WLS it is still pretty good... As for AT40 The 70's on 92.1 as oddd as it may sound with a lot of those sappy 70's songs and mega ballads from the 70's it might be a better fir then we think. Up here near where I live we have a station that in it's inception was very simular to 92.1 and yet on sunday's would do nothing but 70's music and from what a friend told me that was the day the station actually had a few more listeners... Now this station is moved more into a mainstream AC direction, but still does very well with the 70's. Once Cumulus comes in and guts a lot of the citadel stations if all else fails and Cumulus does to it's oldies type stations like they have done in other places 98.5 will either be pop leaning classic hits which will be good or they will take a more rock leaning route... Either way if 92.1 plays it's cards right and from the sounds of it I am sure they won't depending on how Cumulus goes they could be in the drivers seat to put together another attempt at some sort of oldies... Hey it is double O after all so I can say stranger things have happened... CC
 
Ssummers said:
I haven't heard Landecker's show, and it's probably not as good as in his WLS days, but, I gotta say unconditionally, Landecker is a GOD. Kasem is a dried up prune(which sounds really, really dry or really, really old...or both).
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Ssummers, I was surprised at how good it is. He is every bit as witty as he was at WLS and amazingly makes it sound as"live" as possible. And he must record it only a couple of days out because the topical references are very current. I am a fan of live and local but this one is an exception.
 
Al Timiter said:
Ssummers, I was surprised at how good it is. He is every bit as witty as he was at WLS and amazingly makes it sound as"live" as possible. And he must record it only a couple of days out because the topical references are very current. I am a fan of live and local but this one is an exception.
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Damn, that's quite a testimonial...now I wish someone up here around the Outer Banks would pick his show up. The guy is just a stone cold superstar when it comes to being a radio personality. Every DJ has stories about staying up past bedtime as a kid, hiding under the covers listening to radio stations and DJs from far, far away. WLS, WOWO, WABC, et. al. So do I...I used to listen to them all...but I especially loved listening to John Records Landecker and "Boogie Check", "Can I Get A Witness News", "Make A Date With A Watergate" and all of his other personality benchmarks. I even have a cassette somewhere of him doing a live read of a Dannon Yogurt commercial where he screws the whole thing up and STILL hits the thing out of the park. AWESOME stuff. I totally modelled my delivery after him when I started in radio. Lotta good it did me. lol.
 
carolinaradio said:
Somebody's ADDING Delilah? ::) :eek:

I guess they want to fall below a 1....
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I can remember when a true easy listening station in Myrtle Beach added the show. Not a good fit at all. Soon after that, new owners moved the easy listening to AM--sort of--and moved a format closer to Delilah's sound onto the frequency. Another FM, which was in the basement after doing something experimental and ended up losing its audience to that station with Delilah, saw a major opportunity. Among all listeners, it has been number one ever since.

You can't verify what I am saying about the experiment or putting Delilah on an easy listening station by going to microfilm. It isn't there. Hopefully the stations involved kept the evidence.
 
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