AT 40 The 70s

My local Oldies station carries AT 40 The 70s which according to an announcement comes from Premiere Radio Networks. I take it Premiere Radio Networks doesn't have all the episodes of the show because the show that aired on 10/7 came from the year 1976 and the episode that aired on 10/14 came from the year 1971.

Not necessarily. They might be varying the years so there are different songs each week.

TheBigA said:

Not necessarily. They might be varying the years so there are different songs each week.

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That's the way SiriusXM handles its AT40s.

gr8oldies said:

They do not and never have played the shows in sequential order. There is one man who remasters all the shows and most are complete. Premiere offers an "A" and a "B" show for the 70s and 80s. Some stations don't want to carry early 70s material.

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I've been listening for years of both 70s and 80s on various stations on the internet and yes some do not run 1970-1973, because their format is 75 on, anyways who wants to here young Donny Osmond and some of those bubble gum hits from then, and they rotate every 8 weeks on the years for each the 70s and 80s, and always run on the weekend closes to the actual date of the original broadcast.
What sucks though is that Oct 1978 AT 40 went from 3 hours to 4 hours, so those show to the end of 1979 do not air at all, and 1979 was my graduation year.

A very small town station that I voicetracked at from 2012-2015 carried AT40 the 70s. The station was given a choice of programs to air that week, either from the early 70s or late 70s. The PD usually picked the early 70s shows more often since he doesn't play any disco on his station.