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In January 2009, Dees and the Weekly Top 40 returned to ABC Radio, which has since been acquired by Citadel Broadcasting, with ABC Radio's programming division renamed as Citadel Media. [3] Reruns of the Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 from the 1980s began airing on the TKO Radio Network in 2010 after a trial run on WQMA in Marks, Mississippi. A few ...
Dees continues distribution of his Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 Countdown globally to terrestrial radio stations and streaming in the U.S., making it the longest continuously running countdown featuring pop music in the world. He also continues to host the syndicated Daily Dees show, and can be heard in Hawaii on Kohala Radio KNKR 96.1 FM each ...
In 1988, Kasem left American Top 40 because of a contract dispute with ABC Radio Network. He signed a five-year, $15 million contract with Westwood One and started Casey's Top 40, which used a different chart, the Radio & Records Contemporary (CHR)/Pop radio airplay chart (also employed contemporaneously by Rick Dees Weekly Top 40). [20]
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]
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.
Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 (moved to Dial Global/Triton Radio in 2006, Citadel Media in 2009, Westwood One/Dial Global in 2011, and now at Compass Media Networks since 2012.) Carson Daly Most Requested (Show ended when 5-year contract was up in 2006) Last Night on Tonight with Jay Leno (moved to Westwood One, January 2007)
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)
The station used live air personalities during the 1970s and 1980s, but relied on syndicated programming during the 1990s. In the 1980s, WRAR was an affiliate of Rick Dees Weekly Top 40. In the last several years, [when?] the station has returned to the use of live local announcers once again.