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Old Syndicated Countdown Shows That Aired on Z-93

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alans613

Does anyone remember the following shows that aired on Z-93(and probably other stations)back in the late 80s/early 90s?
Casey's Top 40(Retitled THE Top 40 Countdown when Casey left WW1 in 1998 for 3 weeks w/guest hosts, and then dropped).
American Top 40 with Shadoe Stevens-Sunday nights 6-10 PM and later in the run 7-11PM.
Rick Dees & the Weekly Top 40-aired 7-11PM on Sunday nights after AT40 went out of production.
Joel Denver-Future Hits. Aired 10PM-11PM right after AT40.
Hit Line USA-Aired 11PM-Midnight. Spotlighted a group and their hits that was popular at the time. I remember Heart appearing on the program at the time "All I Want To Do..." was a huge hit.
The Weekly Top 5-On The Radio with Big Ron O'Brien and later Jeff Davis. Aired Sunday mornings until 2002, when it went out of production.
 
I remember Z-93 having most of those shows, but I lived in Highland Heights back then, and Z-93 constantly battled interference from Lexington's 92.9. It was like how the Soviets jammed stations they didn't want people to hear.

If it wasn't for that, Z-93 would have been a great place for me to hear 'AT40', since you never knew when Q-102 was going to butcher 'AT40'. I remember the time in January 1990 when Q-102 inexplicably played the previous week's episode instead of the new episode. There might have been a song in the countdown they banned or something.
 
NoWayNoCC said:
I remember Z-93 having most of those shows, but I lived in Highland Heights back then, and Z-93 constantly battled interference from Lexington's 92.9. It was like how the Soviets jammed stations they didn't want people to hear.

If it wasn't for that, Z-93 would have been a great place for me to hear 'AT40', since you never knew when Q-102 was going to butcher 'AT40'. I remember the time in January 1990 when Q-102 inexplicably played the previous week's episode instead of the new episode. There might have been a song in the countdown they banned or something.
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Didn't AT40 send out a VT tape of Kasey and the local operator played the records. But unless I'm having a false recall I seem to remember WNCI in Columbus replaying the last week a couple of times.
 
Bandit you have gone over the edge. Q102 probably played the wrong week because they didn't get the new discs or someone forgot to switch it out. No record banning was done. Really. Grow up.
 
MTHBSTR said:
Bandit you have gone over the edge. Q102 probably played the wrong week because they didn't get the new discs or someone forgot to switch it out. No record banning was done. Really. Grow up.
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Actually, Q-102 did consistently ban a record from 'AT40'. In 1987, they edited George Michael's "I Want Your Sex" out of the countdown each week.
 
NoWayNoCC said:
Actually, Q-102 did consistently ban a record from 'AT40'. In 1987, they edited George Michael's "I Want Your Sex" out of the countdown each week.
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It was not uncommon for stations to edit.. as a kid I remember WNCI here in Columbus during their lighter AC days would edit out any hip hop type stuff from the countdown.
 
Sometime in 2003, the board op accidentally played the previous week's Rick Dees. IIRC, she corrected herself & played the correct week's RD. Also, Casey Kasem never uttered the title "I Want Your Sex" except for the year end countdown of 1987 of AT40.
 
NoWayNoCC said:
MTHBSTR said:
Bandit you have gone over the edge. Q102 probably played the wrong week because they didn't get the new discs or someone forgot to switch it out. No record banning was done. Really. Grow up.
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Actually, Q-102 did consistently ban a record from 'AT40'. In 1987, they edited George Michael's "I Want Your Sex" out of the countdown each week.
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If memory is correct, Q102 did not even play the song because conservative groups were putting pressure on their advertisers. There were other banned songs as well, such as Frankie Goes to Hollywood's Relax.
 
I remember Rick Dees and the Weekly Top 40 and Hitline USA aired on 92X and the other shows aired on WNCI in the late 80's. I remember in 1993 WNCI literally butchered American Top 40 trying to copy Sunny 95's no top 40 teen music slogan. The only one close to hit music at that time then was Hot 105 which all WNCI's teen audience ran to for what hit music they could get since they were mostly Dance Top 40. Plu the south end was rough on the 105.7 signal which was in Marysville. At the end of 1993 Hot 105 simucasted on 107.1 from Circleville as Hot 105/ Hot 107 and went mainsteam as 105.7 KISS FM mentioning 107.1 at the top of the hour. When the winter ratings came out in 1994 WNCI fell out of the top 5 and the PD decided to go back somewhat to a hit music station though friday nights they were stuck in the 80's and Saturday nights stuck in the 70's. A radio consultant made KISS fm to stop simulcasting so it got put on the 107.1 frequency which caused a majority of the north end of Columbus to lose the signal due to 106.7 being in Marion 45 miles away on 106.9. I know KISS carried the Rick Dees show during it's short run. It aired against Casey's Top 40 which WNCI brought back the somewhat hit music format. Before WNCI was sold to CC they literally copied or tried to do a contest better than their competition.
 
I remember other times when Q-102 butchered 'AT40'. There was one week in 1987 or 1988 when they inexplicably started 'AT40' a half-hour late, and edited out all the stories and features so it would end on time. There was another week when they removed a Long Distance Dedication for no apparent reason. Also, I remember when "Going Back To Cali" by LL Cool J was in the countdown, they added a bunch of "humorous" sound effects to it.

I do remember WCLU playing "Relax" when it was a hit. WCLU went away right before "I Want Your Sex" came out.
 
There was also a period in the 90's where Q102 eliminated Hip Hop/Rap from the playlist. They use to promote that fact running promos Hit Music with No Rap! Z93 was the superior top 40/CHR station if you were luck enough to hear them in Northern KY/Cincinnati area.
 
In the Summer of 87, AT40 was produced in such a way that stations could easily skip the George Michael song. Beginning on June 20, 1987, the producers included specific instructions in a note attached to the cue sheet on how to skip the song in a seamless fashion. So, Q102 was not the only station skipping it. So what song do you suggest they were banning in January 1990?
 
MTHBSTR said:
In the Summer of 87, AT40 was produced in such a way that stations could easily skip the George Michael song. Beginning on June 20, 1987, the producers included specific instructions in a note attached to the cue sheet on how to skip the song in a seamless fashion. So, Q102 was not the only station skipping it. So what song do you suggest they were banning in January 1990?
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Considering how they banned the George Michael song, of all things, there must have been some song out at the time that was just as likely to be banned. Probably something that was in the top 40 for only 1 or 2 weeks.
 
Q-102 used to be like the kid in school who complained about everybody else being immoral and debauched, even while they went out and partied every night.
 
I know Z didn't ban it, but another 1990 song that was likely cut by many stations was Digital Underground "The Humpty Dance".
 
Another weird thing Q-102 did with 'AT40': For a while, one of the ads included with 'AT40' was for some hygiene product. The commercial started off with a woman telling some corny joke or riddle. I remember one time, Q-102 inserted mock laughter after this corny joke.

I bet the advertisers were mad!
 
I wish I would have saved some of those old Dick Clark Shows---back when they were still good!

I remember I was told to "slip cue" past all of the sponsor IDs to the start of the show--- only issue was every single ID card was upcut---- so we could run an ..."ubble U DJO" cart into the start of the show----depending on the board op--- it was either ok or a train wreck!

From the upcut cart file-- I always loved it when Scotty Jackson would run the "Go Reds" Cart after a Reds loss---as it cued up as ".. Oh Reds."


priceless!

RIP Chuck Dees--- he really did mean well!
 
partymarty said:
I wish I would have saved some of those old Dick Clark Shows---back when they were still good!

I remember I was told to "slip cue" past all of the sponsor IDs to the start of the show--- only issue was every single ID card was upcut---- so we could run an ..."ubble U DJO" cart into the start of the show----depending on the board op--- it was either ok or a train wreck!

From the upcut cart file-- I always loved it when Scotty Jackson would run the "Go Reds" Cart after a Reds loss---as it cued up as ".. Oh Reds."


priceless!

RIP Chuck Dees--- he really did mean well!
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"Dick Clark's National Music Survey" aired in the Dayton market back when 102.9 WAZU was a Hot AC and locally aimed at Springfield back in the late 1980s before the sale from "Smilin'" Bob Yountz to Osborne. Back then, the WAZU studios were in the historic Marketplace in Downtown Springfield, now known as the Heritage Center. IIRC, it was a Top 20 countdown. I really enjoyed that show. It aired on Sunday mornings back then. After WAZU was sold and flipped, no other station to my recollection ever picked it up.
 
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