• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

WSRS goes all Christmas

W

WMC2006

Gee, guys, 96.1 WSRS/Worcester went all Christmas on Friday. According to their Facebook page, looks like it happened around 4pm. I guess nobody cares. See ya next year.
 
Well it was posted on radioinsight at least. "We need a little Christmas, right this very minute"--from the musical Mame.
"Chri$tma$ has 2 s's in it and they're both dollar signs."--Stan Freberg.
Not long after the format change the world's attention turned to the atrocities in Paris.
 
Later 96.1.
You are off my presets and I might not put you back either.
Nov 14 is far too early for Christmas music.


Now to wait for when a Boston Station goes Christmas.
 
Personally, it was an embarrassing inappropriate time to go Christmas because of the atrocities taking place in Paris!
 
blackgold said:
Personally, it was an embarrassing inappropriate time to go Christmas because of the atrocities taking place in Paris!
Click to expand...

Why is it inappropriate to begin celebrating the birth of Christ? Would it be better for Christians to ignore the very foundation of Christianity and let the Islamic extremists take "center stage?"
 
Marion Blevins said:
Why is it inappropriate to begin celebrating the birth of Christ? Would it be better for Christians to ignore the very foundation of Christianity and let the Islamic extremists take "center stage?"
Click to expand...

How does "White Christmas" and the mostly secular music played as seasonal programming celebrate the birth of the Christ child??

Stripped of social commentary, the season is started with Black Friday sales and ends with post-New Year's Day hangovers. It's deeply religious for a minority of the population, and for most the festivities are more important than the religious aspects.
 
I agree with you, David.
Christmas is a sales-fest.
That, in itself, explains why stations are playing Christmas music earlier and earlier each year.
 
I'm not a big fan of "popular" Christmas music. I remember one time I was visiting my mom and whatever station was playing did 4 different versions of "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" in a row. And that "Carol of the Bells" song would be better used as the shower scene theme in Psycho...hahaha
 
IIRC, didn't they do weekends only for a couple of weeks before Thanksgiving last year before they went wall to wall until Christmas?
 
I thought I would be safe from her on the weekend, but I guess not.

Like WPLM I guess I can only listen to 96.1 in the daytime.
 
Marion Blevins said:
Why is it inappropriate to begin celebrating the birth of Christ?
Click to expand...
Because it's not even Advent yet? If you want to go there, then stations should be dusting off their copies of "O Come, O Come Emmanuel", "O Come, Divine Messiah", and "People, Look East", preparing for an Advent playlist starting on Sunday, November 29th.

As David says, Christmas music formats have next to nothing to do with the actual Christian celebration of Christ's birth. Otherwise, they wouldn't end at midnight, December 26th, but continue through the entire season of Christmas (ending on January 10th, The Baptism of The Lord).

And if WSRS had delayed the start of the Christmas format until the third day of mourning had ended, no one was going to say "Ugh, more adult contemporary hits of the '80s and '90s - the terrorists have won."
 
Add 94.9-WHOM as the latest “all Christmas” convert.
According to their online playlist, it happened at 8am:

7:56 AM- Safe and Sound - “Capital Cities”
8:11 AM- Burl Ives - “Holly Jolly Christmas”
 
Haven't been exploring the dial much with the free XM offering going on.
Now it's over and I was listening this morning.
I notice 105.1 is now all Christmas and will be till 2016 starts.
 
12 Days of Christmas is now active on WPLM !

Excellent.

The "D" word does also infect this station, but otherwise they usually do a good job.
 
frankberry said:
I agree with you, David.
Christmas is a sales-fest.
That, in itself, explains why stations are playing Christmas music earlier and earlier each year.
Click to expand...

Just how does that explain it? And explain what? If people didn't want to listen to Christmas music, the stations wouldn't program it. I remember seeing lots of research about how all-Christmas, all-the-time, did pretty good numbers, and numbers are what it's all about when the product you're selling is 'ears."

Unless you're saying that Christmas is sales-fest-time for radio stations, as in selling commercials. But, the audience numbers still hold in that case.

If the case you are making is that Christmas music drives listeners, ok. If that isn't the case, the sales-fest meme makes no sense.

Regards,
TSB
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom