http://www.fm1079.co.uk/

 

This is chart news, but I ask will this also be coming to other UK radio stations in other regions, or is it an Oxford only thing?

 

And it's "chart chat" so don't bite me.

Edited September 22, 200618 yr by Oral Fixation

Actually it's not a first, Radio 1 used to have it in the 80s and early 90s, and commerical stations used to have one once too.

 

Good to see it coming back.

 

I like Ryan Seacrest, he's funny when he attacks Simon Cowell.

I like Ryan Seacrest, he's funny when he attacks Simon Cowell.

 

I've heard AT40 online before, and he does a good job, i also like listening to AT20 with Casey Kasem which is the adult chart.

 

 

This is the first time I've heard of AT40 being broadcast in the UK. Some stations carried the rival Rick Dees US top 40 countdown back in the 90s but it wasn't that successful. As Mark says, Radio One also had its own American chart show, first with Paul Gambaccini in the 70s and early 80s then someone like Gary Byrd or Dixie Peach took over and the show was eventually dropped. AT40 used to be heard in Europe on American Forces Network back in the days when Kasey Kasem used to present it, and back then it was the top 40 part of Billboard's Hot 100 that was used. That chart was dropped in 1991. I don't know who compiles it now, but it's not the "proper" chart (ie it's not the Hot 100 top 40).

This is the first time I've heard of AT40 being broadcast in the UK. Some stations carried the rival Rick Dees US top 40 countdown back in the 90s but it wasn't that successful. As Mark says, Radio One also had its own American chart show, first with Paul Gambaccini in the 70s and early 80s then someone like Gary Byrd or Dixie Peach took over and the show was eventually dropped. AT40 used to be heard in Europe on American Forces Network back in the days when Kasey Kasem used to present it, and back then it was the top 40 part of Billboard's Hot 100 that was used. That chart was dropped in 1991. I don't know who compiles it now, but it's not the "proper" chart (ie it's not the Hot 100 top 40).

 

I remember when the American Chart Show was part of the Saturday Sequence in the mid-late eighties with Johnnie Walker, with Laura Gross in America, she left in 1988. Got her final show on tape.

Richard Skinner took over in later years and counted it down.

 

 

Oh thats cool! Its based on radio play and radio impressions in america!

I remember when the American Chart Show was part of the Saturday Sequence in the mid-late eighties with Johnnie Walker, with Laura Gross in America, she left in 1988. Got her final show on tape.

Richard Skinner took over in later years and counted it down.

I don't remember any of those presenters doing the countdown! My era was when Gambo presented it, after he left it seemed to lose direction. There was an American who did it for a short while in about 1986/7 (I think it was probably Dixie Peach, though Gary Byrd did do some show at Radio One), and presumably Johhnie Walker must have presented from about 1987/8. By then, I was working on a Saturday so I probably just never got to hear it.

 

it was Gary Byrd who took over from Gambo! I just found this:

 

http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/freq_f...ched_83_87.html

I take it none of you listen to America's Greatest Hits hosted by Paul Gambaccini on Radio 2 - every Saturday between 7-9 PM.

I take it none of you listen to America's Greatest Hits hosted by Paul Gambaccini on Radio 2 - every Saturday between 7-9 PM.

I've listened a few times but I'm not too keen on the format...

I take it none of you listen to America's Greatest Hits hosted by Paul Gambaccini on Radio 2 - every Saturday between 7-9 PM.

 

Yes i do.

This is the first time I've heard of AT40 being broadcast in the UK. Some stations carried the rival Rick Dees US top 40 countdown back in the 90s but it wasn't that successful. As Mark says, Radio One also had its own American chart show, first with Paul Gambaccini in the 70s and early 80s then someone like Gary Byrd or Dixie Peach took over and the show was eventually dropped.

 

i think paul Gambaccini still does it? :huh: or something like that, think i've seen something about an america hits show in the radio times

 

AT40 used to be heard in Europe on American Forces Network back in the days when Casey Kasem used to present it, and back then it was the top 40 part of Billboard's Hot 100 that was used. That chart was dropped in 1991. I don't know who compiles it now, but it's not the "proper" chart (ie it's not the Hot 100 top 40).

 

did he sound like shaggy by any chance? :lol:

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/73/Shaggy_scooby_wnsd2.jpg

oh yes that is it

 

I take it none of you listen to America's Greatest Hits hosted by Paul Gambaccini on Radio 2 - every Saturday between 7-9 PM.

 

actually i dont listen to the radio that much, only what my mum plays in the car, prefer to have something like e4 music playing if i must have something