AT40 with Casey Kasem & Shadoe Stevens : The bilingual editions.
Some spanish radio stations, from Spain and Latin America, took the show in the 80´s and in the 90´s. But they had local presenters , so a mix of spanish speaking content and the original parts from Casey and Shadoe were used. Defenitely for ruining the shows and the original spirit and flavour.
On april 20th 1985 American Top 40 started on Cadena 40 Network Spain.
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/Pantalla ... irtv_3/Tes
It was DJ José Antonio Abellán who translated what Casey said and later will be DJ Fernandisco who did the same with Shadoe.
The show was on aired on Saturdays 16.00 to 20.00 CET and it was a week later than the version aired in The USA.
In 1985 the show , with the local spanish inserts, was recorded on reel to reel tapes and sent from Madrid to the provincial FM stations ( more than 52) that had to broadcast it between 4 to 8 pm. Finally the show was aired via satellite and the costs of the making were less, because the FM stations picked the satellite feed from Madrid and the quality of sound was much more evident. But they still kept on ruining the show with those translation of what the original host said.
American Top 40 en la Cadena 40 Principales Alright. (AT40 typical jingle).
http://www.goear.com/listen/63553f3/at4 ... pales-at40
This little aircheck is about Shadoe greeting DJ Fernando ( Fernandisco), the host of AT40 Cadena 40 , Spain.
7-18-92
http://www.goear.com/listen/b0ae4db/at4 ... oe-stevens
In Latin America some stations used complete dubbing of the show and they only respect the song lists. Other radio stations aired the original shows.
An example of one of those AT40 shows translated into Spanish:
http://www.goear.com/listen/252d07a/at4 ... 93-wfm-969
The station is WFM and the year is 1993. WFM was a station from Mexico, now it is known as W Radio .
The host is Martha Debayle .
Martín Hernández hosts AT40 on WFM:
http://www.goear.com/listen/ef66bd1/fra ... -1992-at40
Martha Debayle does a flashback of September 1984:
http://www.goear.com/listen/9fa460a/mar ... -1984-at40
Other spanish radio stations (from Spain) took american syndicated shows, besides AT40:
1.- Onda 10 Radio took Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 in the 90´s.
2.- Radio Nacional de España Radio 3 took Bob Kingsley American Country Countdown in the 90´s , too.
3.- After the last show of AT40 with Shadoe, Cadena 40 kept on taking The World Chart Show, a Top 40 with Ace & Joe. It used to have the same mailing address of AT40, that P.O. Box 2000, Hollywood CA, 90028, USA.
4.- Cadena 100 took Shadoe Stevens´s Top of the World in the 00´s.
JCAragón.
