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In October 2021, the show stopped using the AT40 abbreviation and now uses its full name on air. The current source for the AT40 charts are unpublished mainstream Top 40 and hot adult contemporary charts compiled by Mediabase. The program subsequently switched to being based on Radio and Records airplay data upon its late 1990s return, until R&R was folded into Billboard in 2009. In its early years, AT40 used the Billboard charts to compile the countdown, touting it as "the only source". There are also two classic editions of the original AT40 distributed every weekend, featuring past Kasem-hosted shows from the 1970s and 1980s. However, there is no distinction made between the two shows on air. Seacrest took over AT40 on January 10, 2004, following Kasem's retirement from the series.Ĭurrently, AT40 with Seacrest airs in two formats, with one distributed to Contemporary Hit Radio (Top 40) stations and the other to Hot Adult Contemporary stations. Kasem, who had spent nine years hosting his own countdown Casey's Top 40 for Westwood One, returned to hosting his creation on March 28, 1998. Three years later, Kasem teamed up with Premiere's predecessor AMFM Radio Networks to relaunch AT40. Shadoe Stevens took over the program on August 13, 1988, and hosted until January 28, 1995, when the original program came to an end. GEICO is the main sponsor for the show.Ĭo-creator Casey Kasem hosted the original AT40 from its inauguration on July 4, 1970, until August 6, 1988. It can also be heard on iHeartRadio, TuneIn, and the official AT40 applications on mobile smartphones and tablets as well as on Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 consoles (via iHeartRadio's console app), and the Armed Forces Network. Nearly 500 radio stations in the United States, and several other territories worldwide air AT40, making it one of the most listened-to weekly radio programs in the world. (later a division of ABC Radio known as ABC Watermark, now Cumulus Media Networks), AT40 is now distributed by Premiere Networks (a division of iHeartMedia). Originally a production of Watermark Inc. The program is currently hosted by Ryan Seacrest and presented as an adjunct to his weekday radio program, On Air with Ryan Seacrest. Easton Allyn & Jennifer Sawalha (Present)Īmerican Top 40 (previously abbreviated to AT40) is an internationally syndicated, independent song countdown radio program created by Casey Kasem, Don Bustany, Tom Rounds, and Ron Jacobs.