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What's happening to the AT40 retro on WMMX "Mix" 107.7?

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jcs

The last several times they have played bits and pieces of retros from different years. For example, the November 14 airing was primarily the reairing of the 11/14/87 broadcast, but in the first hour some songs from 1982 were put in. (Granted, 1982's music is way better than 1987's, but I digress!) Then on November 21, the AT40 was a mixture of last week's and one from 1980. To top it all off, the one from November 28 sounded like it was from 1985, albeit in August or September when "Shout" by Tears For Fears was #1.

Did anybody else notice this? The reason I don't have dates on the 1980 or 1982 retros is because I didn't hear the original dates, plus the website for a station that lists them has gone "all Christmas all the time" and taken it down ... hopefully temporarily. The station in mind is KQQL "Kool" 106.1 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
 
I would email Jeff Stevens the PD of Mix ([email protected]) and ask him, but as a long-time listener of AT40 The 80s I know they sometimes add extra tunes to pad out the four hours, so that might explain that part of it. As far as hearing two different countdowns, that sounds like an automation snafu to me. Also, usually the week of the countdown is usually announced at the top of the hour following local station IDs.
 
Apparently a segment or two didn't get "written over" properly and possibly part of the previous week's show aired. I have heard that happen.

Meanwhile the 70s version is on Yuletide hiatus, though Lite found a Christmas countdown with "old sounding Casey".
 
Alan, I e-mailed Jeff about what I heard.

And gr8oldies, I too have noticed that "99.9 Lite" has taken a break from the 1970s "AT40" for Christmas. I have begun listening to WGRR 103.5 out of Cincinnati for my 1970s fix. 99.9's website had lists that dated as far back to 3/8/09 for their 1970s "AT40" countdowns, which I really like, although they stopped in early November after they started going "all Christmas, all the time."
 
Hey,

I got a reply from Jeff saying that they've been getting really messed up feeds from AT40 the last few weeks. They hope to have the 12/7/85 countdown this Saturday.
 
Thanks for the info jcs. If I remember correctly, Mix used to get AT40 on CD a few years back and it would be put in the automation system by Shaun Vincent the APD but it looks like Premiere switched to DSL only for AT40.
 
Premiere has really vamped up their delivery method of American Top 40 (70s, 80s, and now). They are no longer being delivered via CD. It's being offered via FTP for stations who can't get it automatically sent over (and as a backup to all stations just incase). I'm sure there may be a station or 2 that still gets the CD.

Casey Christmas on LQT is being offered from Premiere to all stations who carry Casey (AT40 the 70s, AT40 the 80s) that changeover to all Christmas Programming. It is rebroadcasts of his AT10 Christmas Specials.
 
I know that Premiere has offered the download for a long time now, or File Transfer Protocol(FTP), but why some stations were still getting the CDs is a mystery to me. It seems as if CC is trying to cut costs that it would be cheaper to send it over FTP instead of sending out the CDs and spending money on postage when you can deliver it directly to the stations via computers.
BTW, last Saturday's AT40 The 80s sounded like it ran smoothly.
Also, who is the voice that announces what week they are rebroadcasting? It used to be Mike Kasem and before him it was Ed McMann.
 
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