American Top 40

American Top 40 is an American radio program that was first broadcast on 4 July 1970. Contents of the shipment are the 40 most successful songs from the U.S. charts as well as stories about the artists. Within a short time the shipment at the most listened to weekly radio show in the U.S. was.

History

Created the program from the U.S. Moderator Casey Kasem, who also moderated in the years 1970-1988 and 1998-2004. In 1978, he added an element to the show that would go down in radio history: The " Long Distance Dedication" in which Kasem letters from listeners leaving, who greeted with mostly very impressive stories people in remote locations of the world. The section is continued by Kasem since then until today in today's sister shipments of " American Top 40 ", " American Top 20" and " American Top 10".

In 1988, Kasem from the moderation of the shipment to the radio presenter and actor Shadoe Stevens, who she presented until 1995. Kasem established at this time the competition show " Casey's Top 40 ".

On 28 January 1995, the last time being broadcast ran " American Top 40 " because it was replaced for contractual reasons on most radio stations in the United States by the show " Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 ", which was presented by the moderator Rick Dees.

On 28 March 1998, the show was finally revived as a result of extensive negotiations by Casey Kasem and again moderated by him.

On 10 January 2004, the moderation of the broadcast of radio and television presenter Ryan Seacrest has taken over, who added her in the course of this new, more modern elements (such as artist interviews ). Several times a year, artists will be used as guest presenters (eg Christina Aguilera and Jessica Simpson), representing Seacrest on holiday weeks.

Today the program is broadcast around the world in two different formats (CHR and Hot AC ) of around 400 radio stations in the U.S. and many other. In Germany, the show is broadcast on many AFN stations on weekends.

• Music broadcast (radio )