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A contest (the Weekly Top 40 Challenge) and a pre-recorded interview ("special in-studio guest") were other enduring features that helped give Rick's show a younger more contemporary sound when compared to American Top 40. By 1985, the Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 could be heard on radio stations around the world as far away as New Zealand.
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".
Following a season where McCoo hosted by herself, she left in 1984 and Rick Dees of the Weekly Top 40 radio show was hired. Arsenio Hall joined the series during this time as the in-house comedian in place of Marty Cohen. At the midway point of the 1984–85 season, Dees left Solid Gold and a series of guests were used in the interim. Original ...
The Mainstream Top 40 airplay-based chart debuted in Billboard magazine in its issue dated October 3, 1992, with rankings determined by monitored airplay from data compiled by Broadcast Data Systems, a then-new technology which can detect when and how often songs are being played on radio stations.
In June 1987, Dan McCoy arrived to do afternoons and eventually moved to mid-days, where he remained until April 1990. WZOU was Boston's affiliate for Rick Dees Weekly Top 40. Though WHTT would change formats in 1986, WXKS-FM successfully adapted to a Top 40/CHR format in December 1982, and would cut into Z-94's ratings later in the decade.
Rick and Bubba (2002–2006) Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 (1983–present) Rick Rydell (2001–present) Right to Happiness (1939–1960) Rin-Tin-Tin (1930–1955) Ring of Fire (2004–present) Road of Life (1937–1959) The Rob Arnie and Dawn Show (1996–present) The Robert Q. Lewis Show (1945–1959) The Rochester Orchestra (1929–1942)
Radio & Records also supplied information for past syndicated country music countdown programs (including The Weekly Country Music Countdown (1981-early 2000s), and it was the source used on the syndicated daily radio program Solid Gold Country. The CHR/Top 40 chart was used for Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 (1985-1995, 1997–2005). Red Letter Rock 20
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. This would last until around 1988, when it transitioned to a full-time simulcast when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) relaxed the rules on major ...