What radio program did Casey Kasem retire from recently?
adio Kasem, whose radio career started in the mid-1950s in Detroit at WJBK, developed his rock-trivia persona from his work as a disc jockey in the early 1960s at KYA in San Francisco and KEWB in Oakland, California. He also worked for several other stations across the country, including WBNY (now WWWS) in Buffalo, New York, and KRLA 1110 in Los Angeles (1963—69), before launching the national show American Top 40 on July 4, 1970. Kasem is best known by name as a music historian and disc jockey, most notably as host of the weekly American Top 40 radio program from 1970 to 1988, and again from March 1998 until January 10, 2004, when Ryan Seacrest succeeded him. He hosted a spin-off television show called America’s Top 10 for a time in the 1980s. He was the host of the short-lived American version of 100% in 1999. For a period in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Kasem was the staff announcer for the NBC television network. More recently, he has appeared in infomercials, marketing CD mus
Casey Kasem, 77, is calling it quits for hosting the “American Top 20” countdown program that airs on radios across the country every weekend. He announced his retirement and did his final broadcast on July 4th, which would make it a total of 39 years since he founded the “Top 40 Countdown” on the same day back in 1970. In 2003, Kasem turned over the Top 40 countdown over to Ryan Seacrest when Premiere Radio Networks took over. Kasem was then given the job hosting the “American Top 20” countdown show. Kasem has denied interview requests. He counted down the last time on July 4th. He is considered the last of his kind for radio hosts that have pioneered modern day radio. Kasem closed his broadcast like he always has, saying, “Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.
