As mentioned in another thread, here is one of those CFN filler shows.

This show (October 20, 1979) originally aired on Oct. 20, 2012 in a 3-hour-format.

On April 1, 2013 (no, it's no joke :) it was replayed with the optional original hour 1.

Satellite recording at 192 kbps, edited and ID-tagged, complete with the original PremRad cue sheets:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/rayn1rcy3f4lil9/AT40_%252870s%2529_-_1979-10-20.zip/file

Thanks, Best71. This one I didn't have. I think that sometime late in 2010, CFN stopped broadcasting the shows or stopped broadcasting through satellite all together.

I just unzipped the file and I now see what you meant with the optional first hour indeed. It must have been quite a lot of work to split up the full show in so many parts. Or is this how it was delivered to the broadcasters? I do have a number of AT40 (and other American radioshow) LPs, but these most of the time split up by `quarter (two tracks per LP side).

Creating separate tracks for each song and adding an ID-tag is my own - indeed time-consuming - doing.

The remastered 70s and 80s shows are distributed with 3 to 4 segments per hour,

each segment usually containing 3 to 4 songs.

There are some network commercials at the end of the segments

and then the local radio stations are given a few minutes to insert their own commercials.

Since CFN was a government funded station, they did not play any commercials at all.

There is usually only a CFN station jingle between the hour segments.

Btw, the quality at which the show can be downloaded from the Premiere Radio server is 256 kbps;

so, CFN came quite close with their 192 kbps.

What I had noticed is that CFN sometimes played one or more tracks of the numbers 41-100 of the Billboard Hot 100 of that same week to complete the full hour of broadcasting.

In 2000 I was on vacation in California/Nevada and, when we stayed in L.A., I visited a couple of record shops. In one of the shops I found a big box filled with LPs with radioshows. The owner of the shop offered to ship all those LPs to The Netherlands. I still regret that I only bought a small subset of all those LPs, because I remember that there were also a number of AT40 shows amongst them. In the end I did return with a suitcase full of LPs to NL 😉 and not just radioshows. Also LPs with tunes that had been used by radiostations or DJs here in NL, like this LP, mono and stereo : https://www.discogs.com/release/9770781-Sid-Ramin-The-Big-Band-Sound-Of?srsltid=AfmBOooWulHFOYF_XIUByJJp3WhGu0YdkKmKh8Rg6t80STxxwDKi626n

{Blue Tango was and I think still is thé tune of the Dutch Top 40 radioshow).

I know what you mean, Ben.

Having the AT40 originals in good vinyl quality would have been the jackpot :)