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Jimmy Owen:
According to rronline.com, Casey Kasem, the erstwhile off-camera host of "100%", is stepping down in 2004 as the host of radio's "American Top 40" and will be replaced by Ryan Seacrest ("Wild Animal Games," "Click").  Kasem will continue as host of "American Top 20," the adult contemporary version of the countdown show.

SRIV94:
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Dec 9 2003, 09:00 AM\']According to rronline.com, Casey Kasem, the erstwhile off-camera host of "100%", is stepping down in 2004 as the host of radio's "American Top 40" and will be replaced by Ryan Seacrest ("Wild Animal Games," "Click").  Kasem will continue as host of "American Top 20," the adult contemporary version of the countdown show.[/quote]
Zoiks!  :)

But seriously, I had thought Kasem had left much earlier, to be replaced by Shadoe "Joooooohhhn Davidson!" Stevens (while Kasem wound up doing another countdown show--"Casey's Top 40")--and I wasn't even aware that he had returned (not to mention that AT40 was even still on the air).  So, to invoke a lamented GSN original--when did that happen?

Doug -- soon to celebrate 200 posts (the numbers get smaller as the hits get bigger, here on American Top 40)

zachhoran:
[quote name=\'SRIV94\' date=\'Dec 9 2003, 10:56 AM\']

But seriously, I had thought Kasem had left much earlier, to be replaced by Shadoe "Joooooohhhn Davidson!" Stevens (while Kasem wound up doing another countdown show--"Casey's Top 40")--and I wasn't even aware that he had returned (not to mention that AT40 was even still on the air).  So, to invoke a lamented GSN original--when did that happen?

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 Casey, who is in his 60s I suppose, probably realizes how sucky most of the music of the Hot 100 charts is, and decided that the Adult Contemporary chart is more tolerable(even if some crappy stuff winds up on that chart too) to host a format for at his age.

SRIV94:
[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Dec 9 2003, 10:05 AM\'] [quote name=\'SRIV94\' date=\'Dec 9 2003, 10:56 AM\']

But seriously, I had thought Kasem had left much earlier, to be replaced by Shadoe "Joooooohhhn Davidson!" Stevens (while Kasem wound up doing another countdown show--"Casey's Top 40")--and I wasn't even aware that he had returned (not to mention that AT40 was even still on the air).  So, to invoke a lamented GSN original--when did that happen?

 [/quote]
Casey, who is in his 60s I suppose, probably realizes how sucky most of the music of the Hot 100 charts is, and decided that the Adult Contemporary chart is more tolerable(even if some crappy stuff winds up on that chart too) to host a format for at his age. [/quote]
 Even so, my recollection of Kasem leaving AT40 initially was that it was 1989.  Granted, my musical tastes gravitate towards oldies/classic rock rather than the new stuff--so I haven't listened to a top-40 radio countdown in ages (I think the last time I heard Casey on the radio was somewhere around 1995, and I don't believe it was AT40 I was listening to).

So the question still stands.  

As an aside, if anyone hasn't heard the Casey Kasem blooper reel--for lack of a better term (". . .every time I do a g***amn death dedication. . ."), it's an absolute classic.

Doug -- soon to celebrate 200 posts (and the hits just keep on coming)

clemon79:
[quote name=\'SRIV94\' date=\'Dec 9 2003, 09:21 AM\'] Even so, my recollection of Kasem leaving AT40 initially was that it was 1989.  
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 It had to be sooner than that, because they're right about Shadoe taking over. John would mention him as the host when called upon in the latter years of that series when Shadoe was permanently in the lox box.

(Why the hell do they call the bottom center square the "lox box", anyhow?)

(We never got Casey in my radio market, alas, but we did get Dick Clark on Countdown America for some time, and the competing Top 40 station (who ran Dr. Demento) always ran Rick Dees.)

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