Shadoe stevens american top 40

[Deleted member 109580]

Where can i hear watermarks american top 40 shows streaming on line, but with shadoe stevens as host during his late 80s early 90s era? All i can find on line are the 70s and early 80s with the previous host casey kasem.

 

[michael hagerty]

Where can i hear watermarks american top 40 shows streaming on line, but with shadoe stevens as host during his late 80s early 90s era? All i can find on line are the 70s and early 80s with the previous host casey kasem.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=shadoe+stevens+american+top+40

 

[davideduardo]

Where can i hear watermarks american top 40 shows streaming on line, but with shadoe stevens as host during his late 80s early 90s era? All i can find on line are the 70s and early 80s with the previous host casey kasem.

Premiere does not have rights to those shows.

 

[TheBigA]

Premiere does not have rights to those shows.

Correct. The story about this is in another thread on this board. In 1994 or thereabouts, ABC cancelled American Top 40. When they did that, there was a reverter clause in Casey's contract where the rights to the name and certain rights to the archive reverted to Casey & his team. At that point they were able to buy some of the archives. At that point, they bought all of the Casey hosted shows. None of the Shadoe shows. Casey & team then sold those rights to Premiere, who then also picked up the show for distribution as AT40 from then until the present. I don't know who has the rights to the Shadoe shows. Probably nobody, since neither Shadoe nor ABC have use of the name.

 

[michael hagerty]

This was covered in another thread:

https://www.radiodiscussions.com/threads/are-1998-2003-broadcasts-of-american-top-40-with-casey-kasem-gone-forever-or-were-they-hidden-somewhere-all-along.764548/post-6692400

The TL/DR is that ABC bought Watermark and when Casey Kasem and Don Bustany bought the rights to AT40 back, they had no interest in the Shadoe Stevens shows, so they were left out of the deal.

It would appear that they were never sold (they're essentially worthless since Casey and Don bought the name and the IP rights), so they'd have been passed on to Citadel and now Cumulus (which owns Westwood One) and even if Cumulus/WW1 wanted to syndicate it, they couldn't.

 

[30james]

Shannon Lynn has the Casey era copies

 

[davideduardo]

Shannon Lynn has the Casey era copies

Again, the issue is that another party owns the AT40 trademark.

 

[Weiserguy]

Again, the issue is that another party owns the AT40 trademark.

So maybe if they bleep out all the references to "AT40" or "American Top Forty", they could get away with selling it as Shadoe's Version???

 

[TheBigA]

So maybe if they bleep out all the references to "AT40" or "American Top Forty", they could get away with selling it as Shadoe's Version???

You assume they still have those tapes somewhere. The company went through three ownership changes since then, and multiple office moves. The building in LA has been demolished and replaced with a high rise. I have no reason to believe they saved a lot of stuff. Where would they put it?

 

[Weiserguy]

You assume they still have those tapes somewhere. The company went through three ownership changes since then, and multiple office moves. The building in LA has been demolished and replaced with a high rise. I have no reason to believe they saved a lot of stuff. Where would they put it?

Stranger artifacts have been found in people's basements (or storage lockers) after they die.

 

[TheBigA]

Stranger artifacts have been found in people's basements (or storage lockers) after they die.

Which is when they once again go into a dumpster.

 

[davideduardo]

Which is when they once again go into a dumpster.

Or onto eBay where I buy them for www.worldradiohistory.com.

 

[Weiserguy]

Which is when they once again go into a dumpster.

Unless the relatives doing the cleanout recognize the value of they're holding. Which does sometimes happen.

 

[TheBigA]

Unless the relatives doing the cleanout recognize the value of they're holding. Which does sometimes happen.

American Country Countdown host Bob Kingsley died a few years ago. His relatives put his collectables up for auction recently, with the proceeds benefiting the Country Radio Broadcasters. You could buy Bob's Gold & Platinum plaques and his awards. Then what would your family do with Bob's chachkas?

 

[Weiserguy]

American Country Countdown host Bob Kingsley died a few years ago. His relatives put his collectables up for auction recently, with the proceeds benefiting the Country Radio Broadcasters. You could buy Bob's Gold & Platinum plaques and his awards. Then what would your family do with Bob's chachkas?

For the record, the word is tchotchkes. (I've never heard of a chachka.) But I get your point. Someone else's memorabilia may mean something to you, but it's very unlikely to mean anything to your descendants or heirs.

 

[vw86]

Shannon Lynn has the Casey era copies

Shannon also has the complete Shadoe-era collection available. He is the only authorized seller for the AT40 catalog of shows. He also has the Casey Westwood One and AMFM/Premiere era shows as well.

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