Date Posted:01:07:11 12/05/02 Thu Author:Craig Subject: Re: 11 Years Ago This Weekend In reply to:
Adrian Liau
's message, "Re: 11 Years Ago This Weekend" on 18:53:58 12/04/02 Wed
I wonder if Casey stayed on AT40 in 1991 how would he react to the chart changes. My guess is he be having a fit & go into his cursing rampage like he did in 1985 with the Dead Dog Dedication. Now that would be very intresting to hear him say something like "What the f---- is going on here? Why are we doing this God d--- chart this week? Where's Rob Durkee? I want him on the horn NOW!!!"
>Been lurking around this board for a while....
>
>Anyway, I've often wondered if the chart switch would
>have been made sooner or later had Casey stayed on at
>AT40. Realize that part of the reason why the chart
>change was made was because affiliates were dropping
>AT40 due to the sort of music AT40 was playing.
>However, if Casey had stayed put and not changed the
>direction AT40 was heading (bells and whistles, looped
>intros, etc), would fewer stations have dropped the
>show, and thus not changed the chart so soon?
>Personally, I think it was a blessing in disguise that
>Casey left ABC Watermark to do his own show and not
>have to deal with a chart change later on as pop radio
>continued to fragment in the early 90s.
>
>>>Yeah I remember when radio kept pushing that saying
>>"more variety", I always thought it meant 5 Michael
>>Bolton songs instead of 3. LOL When BILLBOARD
>>installed this "actual airplay" I knew all it would
>>reveal is how boring radio really was. The problem
>>with AT40 using that Radio Airplay chart (192), was
>>that it was to tilted towards big markets (Chicago,
>>LA, and NY), that it was misleading. Songs would be
>>played only in those areas, and no where else and
>>would make the top 40. Examples are "What Goes Around
>>Comes Around" by Giggles, "This Is The First Time" by
>>Laura Enea, "Nu Nu" by Lidell Townsell, and "Too Blind
>>To See It" by Kym Sims. Also it was weighed by
>>impressions, which meant when harder rock songs were
>>played on stations they would always daypart them,
>>which would give other songs an unfair advantage, in
>>other words some songs would be played around the
>>clock, and others radio would only play after 5:00,
>>This is why songs like "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by
>>Nirvana, and "Let's Get Rocked" by Def Leppard never
>>made the airplay top 40.
>>
>>When AT40 switched to the Mainstream top 40 chart in
>>1993, I thought it was a major improvement, even
>>though songs still stuck around too long. Without
>>the Mainstream top 40, songs like "Steam" by Peter
>>Gabriel, and "I Love You Period" by Dan Baird never
>>would have made the top 40.
>>
