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Date Posted: 20:09:08 04/14/02 Sun
Author: Nelson J. Gomez
Subject: Re: Radio Stations that screw up the show
In reply to: Aaron McCracken 's message, "Re: Radio Stations that screw up the show" on 12:19:30 04/13/02 Sat

>>Im sure this has happened to many people (it did not
>>happen this week, but I was thinking about it so I
>>thought I would share it)
>>
>>You are listening to the countdown, and you hear the
>>"Countin' Down The hits with Casey Kasem" jingle that
>>is the "on the hour" jingle which also is the end of
>>that disc. It plays, and then when it is over the
>>wrong disc has obviously started. (on AT40 each disc
>>is 10 songs, the AT20's are scattered) Sometimes it
>>will be a disc skipped, other times a disc repeated.
>>
>>Or the worst, is when they mix the discs up, and all
>>of the sudden it is last weeks show again. That
>>happened a few times on 104.1 WQAL in the Summer of
>>2001 with the Hot AC show. Once, they played Hour 1 of
>>the previous weeks show, but then as soon as it was
>>time for Hour 2 it was the right show.
>>
>>Another time they played the previous weeks Hour 3
>>disc, so I never found out what the number one song
>>was (it turns out it was the same song, but still)
>>
>>Just wondering how bad other stations have screwed up
>>AT40 or AT20. It really isn't that hard, and you would
>>think the board op would recognize the show was the
>>same, and hell, the date and hour is PRINTED on the
>>disc. I guess the board ops really do not care.
>>
>>Any other stories of stations screwing up the show,
>>playing part of the previous weeks show again,
>>repeating an hour, missing an hour. Etc etc etc
>
>Funny you should mention this... just this morning I
>was listening to AT40 on the net, Energy FM out of
>Canada, and they ended hour 2, went into their station
>promo, and proceeded to start hour 1 again.
>Fortunately, the board op caught it and after about 30
>seconds started hour 3.
>
>WFLZ here in Tampa used to screw up the show on a
>regular basis, cutting out segments in the first or
>second hour, playing segments from the previous week
>or month (one time during the 1998 yearend show, they
>actually started off the show with a regular weekly
>countdown segment from about 2 months prior; what the
>hell was that even still doing in the studio?).
>Fortunately they're nowhere near as bad as that
>anymore.

I remember many instances of radio stations "misplaying" AT40.

For example, I was taping the 1989 year-end show, and at one point, a portion of the program was played our of sequence. I had to buy more tapes to have the portions recorded in the proper order.

Also, my AT40 station in mid-1988 didn't play the first three shows hosted by Shadoe Stevens (luckily I heard two of them on Armed Forces Radio). In one of those 3 weeks, they played hour 1 of one show, followed by hour 2 of another show; upon the conclusion of hour 2, they went back to playing music (!), so there was no Top 20.

And what about our local AT40 station in mid-1990? At one point, you heard Shadoe introducing the song at number 24, followed by the first minute or so of the song, and then... Shadoe introducing the song at 24, again. The cycle repeated about 7 times. Shortly after that, the station (fortunately?) cancelled AT40.

I remember also a program in late 1987. The show began with Casey playing "I Think We're Alone Now" by Tiffany, as the previous week's number 1 song; but listeners could't enjoy it, because the record skipped during the song like four times.

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