Open House Party
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| Genre | Top 40/CHR |
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| Running time | 5 hours (including commercials) |
| Country of origin | United States |
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| Created by | John Garabedian |
| Original release | September 5, 1987 – present |
| Website | Open House Party |
Open House Party (most of the time, shortened to OHP) is an American radio show hosted on Saturday and Sunday nights by former KVIL morning host, Kannon. The show promotes itself as "the Biggest Party on the Planet". It focuses on playing contemporary hit radio (CHR) music, also known as Top 40. The show differentiates itself from most Top 40 because it plays a high rotation of remixes. Unlike most radio stations or programs, every song played on OHP is by a listener request, rather than computer systems automatically inserting songs that may not even be popular anyways. The show started in 1987, and was hosted by John Garabedian from September 1987 to January 2017. Garabedian created the show, and hosted both Saturday and Sunday nights for a long period of time. Open House Party is broadcast on more than 50 stations in the world.
From 1987 to January 2017, the Saturday show originated from one of Garabedian's three houses, most often from Southborough, Massachusetts and sometimes from Cape Cod or Cabot, Vermont. While the Sunday show was pre-recorded on the preceding Thursday, and was broadcast through Garabedian's computer system. Kannon takes phone calls from his house in Dallas on Sunday night, but doesn't do anything live during the show. The same method that was used for Sunday nights until Garabedian's departure, is now used on Saturday nights.
Open House Party is currently voiced by Doug MacAskill. MacAskill has been the voice over for OHP since 2006. Before this, Mike McKay was the voice over artist from about 2001 to 2006. The original OHP voice over artist was Mark Driscoll. Many of Driscoll's and McKay's old pieces are still heard today on the show.
Both the Saturday and Sunday night shows are pre-produced, and then broadcast through a computer system that airs (in Eastern and Central time only) via satellite from 7:00 p.m. to midnight (in Eastern and Mountain time) or from 6:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. (in Central and Pacific time). Some stations only broadcast OHP on Saturday, while others broadcast it only on Sunday, while most broadcast it on both Saturday and Sunday. Some stations only broadcast a portion of OHP to make room for a local or another syndicated program. Many stations rebroadcast OHP from midnight to 5:00 a.m. (in Eastern and Mountain time) or 11:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. (in Central and Pacific time). Open House Party is owned completely by United Stations Radio Networks.
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