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The Weekly Top 40 debuted in September 1983, after Rick's then-station, KIIS-FM, lost American Top 40 to a rival station, KIQQ (now KKLQ) over the playing of network commercials. [1] KIIS-FM re-obtained the rights to carry AT40 in 1988, after Shadoe Stevens took over as host.) [ 2 ] Initially syndicated by United Stations , the show was ...
But unlike the U.S. version of the chart, the top 20 songs from both international and Australian acts are aired. It is hosted by KIIS 106.5 Sydney host Kian. In New Zealand, ZM also airs the local version of the show (entitled ZM's iHeartRadio Official Countdown), bringing the top 40 songs on the chart. The show broadcasts every Saturday from ...
He performed the title song for the film Meatballs. [1] He co-founded the E. W. Scripps television network Fine Living, now the Cooking Channel, and has hosted Rick Dees in the Morning at KIIS-FM and KHHT in Los Angeles. Today he continues his own syndicated daily radio show, Daily Dees and the syndicated Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 Countdown.
Occasionally American Top 40 airs special countdowns in place of the regular American Top 40 countdown show. These included: "Top 40 Recording Acts of the Rock Era 1955–1971" (Weekend of May 1–2, 1971) "Top 40 Christmas Songs" (Weekend of December 25–26, 1971) "Top 40 Songs of the Rock Era 1955–1972" (weekend of July 1–2, 1972)
KIIS-FM has consistently been rated the number-one radio station in the Los Angeles/Orange County and Ventura County markets, averaging nearly one million listeners. [2] As of December 2021, KIIS-FM is the only Top 40 station in the Los Angeles area, after Audacy's KNOU flipped to a simulcast of KNX and changed its callsign to KNX-FM. [3]
American Dance Traxx was an American dance music countdown program that was syndicated by Westwood One and produced at KPWR/Los Angeles, California from March 1987 to December 1993. The three-hour program was distributed to more than 200 Top 40/CHR and Rhythmic stations internationally, including The Armed Forces Network .
Top 40 radio would punctuate the music with jingles, promotions, gags, call-ins, and requests, brief news, time and weather announcements and most importantly, advertising. The distinguishing mark of a traditional top-40 station was the use of a hyperexcited disc-jockey, and high tempo jingles.
Mediabase is a music industry service that monitors radio station airplay in 180 US and Canadian markets. Mediabase publishes music charts and data based on the most played songs on terrestrial and satellite radio, and provides in-depth analytical tools for radio and record industry professionals.