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Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 (sometimes known as The Weekly Top 40) is an internationally syndicated radio program created and hosted by American radio personality Rick Dees.It is currently heard on over 200 radio stations worldwide.
Rigdon Osmond Dees III (born March 14, 1950), best known as Rick Dees, is an American entertainer, radio personality, comedian, actor, and voice artist, best known for his internationally syndicated radio show The Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 Countdown and for the 1976 satirical novelty song "Disco Duck".
With Dees in mornings, KIIS became a CHR powerhouse in Los Angeles. Rick Dees in the KIIS studio, 1986. In 1985, KIIS (AM) returned to a Top 40 format and simulcast KIIS-FM's morning and afternoon shows, while all other dayparts had different disc jockeys.
WBNQ began airing Casey Kasem's American Top 40 during the XT-40 era and continued to do so through the 1980s, while former AT-40 station WIHN began airing Rick Dees Weekly Top 40. WBNQ enjoyed #1 ratings in 2000 and had a run of consecutive number one ratings from 2001 to 2004.
ABC kept American Top 40 in its syndication lineup despite the continued lack of improvement in ratings, but in 1994 the network finally decided to cut its losses. [31] ABC announced that after the July 9, 1994 edition of the program, it would be dropping AT40 from its lineup and replacing it with Rick Dees Weekly Top 40. [32]
WDNH-FM is a radio station licensed to Honesdale, Pennsylvania, airing an Top 40 format. It airs the Weekly Top 40 with Rick Dees and the Weekend Top 30 with Hollywood Hamilton. On April 3, 2023, WDNH-FM rebranded as "95.3 The Rail". [2]
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It is owned by Pottsville Broadcasting Company and broadcasts a Hot Adult Contemporary radio format. [2] [3] The station also broadcasts local high school sports and Penn State Nittany Lions football. Each weekend it carries "Rick Dees Weekly Top 40," the "Remix Top30 with Hollywood Hamilton" and the "Carson Daly Download."