Looks like The History Of Rock & Roll is out and Casey Kasem's AT 40 Countdown The 70's is in!
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WGTK will air Casey Kasem AT 40 Countdown - The 70's
- Thread starter Radio Dave
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I like listening to Casey's shows and Rick Dees' Weekly Top 40 shows on XM. Brings back fond memories.
http://www.premiereradio.com/shows/view/at40_70s.html
Not sure on the promos yet. Should be Sat 7p - 10p.
Not sure on the promos yet. Should be Sat 7p - 10p.
Craven707 said:
I listen to the 70's countdown most every Saturday while washing my vehicle. I've noticed that Kasey sounds more "raspy" than he did years ago on those new promos / liners.
To answer the age question, according to Wikipedia, Kasey was born April 27th 1933. Yep, 1933. That makes him 76 years old. Surprise. I didn't think he was that old.
I think at AT 40 was a much better show during Kasey's reign. He was a great host but in large part I suppose it was because of the music. I've tried listening to the current AT 40 and between the new so called "music" of today and Hollywood Playboy Ryan Seacrest, I find it unlistenable.
I'm glad Premiere has made these old shows available again.
It will be fun hearing "Ballroom Blitz", "Black Betty" and other songs with loud screamin' guitars on the old Wave 970. ;D
Looks like its not going to happen. ??? Someone had a chage of heart.
You can find the bloopers and the botched long distance dedication on youtube. Like you Craven, I noticed the difference in his voice 30 years ago compared to the recent liners he cut.
Elvis is dead and I don't feel so good myself.
Elvis is dead and I don't feel so good myself.
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kentuckymedia
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Ahh...the rumor mill strikes! So hear is what I recently heard in a conversation with some Salem peeps.
94.7 / 940 are going to become a 70's and 80's based radio station similar to Rewind 94.9 in Cincinnati with teach and preach moving to the AM by itself. Of course thats rumor, but it kinda makes sense.
94.7 / 940 are going to become a 70's and 80's based radio station similar to Rewind 94.9 in Cincinnati with teach and preach moving to the AM by itself. Of course thats rumor, but it kinda makes sense.
kentuckymedia said:
You mean 970, and that's interesting. So is the station going to have any conservative/ Christian programming or is it all about filthy lucre these days? :
The original call letters of 94.7, by the way, was WAJE. It was explained to me that the thinking was it was somewhat reminiscent of WAVE. (Just knock a little off the V and, presto! :-X)
He thought that was a better option than WAVG, which is what 970 became after they were forced to change their call letters to something other than WAVE.
kentuckymedia said:
Wow! Your peeps are smoking some strong stuff. I could see moving all christian talk to 900 and selling off 94.7 but I'd say it's a safe bet that 970 will stay talk.
94-7 will NEVER be General Market, under Salem, it should be and it's a GREAT idea to move WFIA to that 970 signal, however Salem is not in the business to be General Market format experts. Their passion is in Christian Radio. If someone offers Salem 3.5 million for 94-7, maybe they would think about making the move to 970 with the WFIA programming. As a church I would rather have the 9-70 signal over 94.7 in New Albany anytime.
I just checked on Radio-locator.com and the calls WAVE look to be unused. You think they might use them?greg.hahn said:kentuckymedia said:
You mean 970, and that's interesting. So is the station going to have any conservative/ Christian programming or is it all about filthy lucre these days? :
The original call letters of 94.7, by the way, was WAJE. It was explained to me that the thinking was it was somewhat reminiscent of WAVE. (Just knock a little off the V and, presto! :-X)
He thought that was a better option than WAVG, which is what 970 became after they were forced to change their call letters to something other than WAVE.
Now, they would have to get permission from WAVE-TV.
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kentuckymedia
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Ahhh....but your wrong, Salem does own General Market stations:
Portland - Spanish CHR
Seattle - Spanish Talk
Honolulu - Oldies and Soft AC
In Millwaukee they used to own a AM Talk and AM Oldies
In New York they used to own an all business format
In Miami they used to own a business format
In Boston they even at one point owned a Hip Hop station for 2 months
In Cincinnati they used to own Oldies and Country.
Salem realizes the need to make money even in a place like Louisville. Rumor I heard is they will keep preach and teach on AM, they might do a hybrid oldies/talk format on the other AM and of course Rewind format on the FM.
Portland - Spanish CHR
Seattle - Spanish Talk
Honolulu - Oldies and Soft AC
In Millwaukee they used to own a AM Talk and AM Oldies
In New York they used to own an all business format
In Miami they used to own a business format
In Boston they even at one point owned a Hip Hop station for 2 months
In Cincinnati they used to own Oldies and Country.
Salem realizes the need to make money even in a place like Louisville. Rumor I heard is they will keep preach and teach on AM, they might do a hybrid oldies/talk format on the other AM and of course Rewind format on the FM.
KyDXIn said:
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the rules were different when the Bingham properties (Courier-Journal, WHAS TV, AM, and WAMZ) were split up. I think at the time WHAS just got to keep the calls as they were.
Then a short time later the rules were amended which forced 970 to change their calls to something other than WAVE when they split off from TV.
And WAVG was really a poor choice, IMO. "Average"? :
greg.hahn said:KyDXIn said:
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the rules were different when the Bingham properties (Courier-Journal, WHAS TV, AM, and WAMZ) were split up. I think at the time WHAS just got to keep the calls as they were.
Then a short time later the rules were amended which forced 970 to change their calls to something other than WAVE when they split off from TV.
And WAVG was really a poor choice, IMO. "Average"? :
IIRC (always dangerous these days!), WAVE-970 actually changed calls first when radio and TV ownership separated. A few years later, the Binghams sold and WHAS-84 successfully petitioned the FCC to keep the calls. I seem to recall reading in Dorsey's column that (then) WAVG-970 raised hell because of perceived unequal treatment (and who could blame them?) but WHAS-84 stayed while WAVE(G)-970 had changed. I **think** this was during Jerry David Melloy's time at WAVG after his time at WHAS, so I'm sure it really grated on him. And, yeah, WAVG was a bad choice. I'm guessing WAVV wasn't available.
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