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WRCH flips the Christmas Switch
- Thread starter MarcB
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Since Thanksgiving can't fall any later than it does this year, is this the latest calendar date WRCH has flipped in recent years? I assume that before jumping the gun on the Christmas season became normal that WRCH would normally wait until after Thanksgiving. So, when Thanksgiving falls on the 24th, has WRCH been flipping on the 21st?
I think the holidays have now merged to the point where Thanksgiving is sort of a prelude to Xmas. It really doesn't make sense to be playing Pink and Adele while your listeners are buying their turkeys and baking their apple pies for a holiday gathering.
Unless you are very traditional or don't like Xmas music, stations which go all-Christmas music should flip a week or so before Thanksgiving.
Has WMAS-FM flipped as well?
Unless you are very traditional or don't like Xmas music, stations which go all-Christmas music should flip a week or so before Thanksgiving.
Has WMAS-FM flipped as well?
Not as of 6 p.m.
Considering retail acts like it's Christmas before Halloween, I can't say I'm surprised. TV advertising goes nuts the moment the clock hits midnight to become November 1st. Then there are the people who say "Christmas Eve" and "New Year's Eve" as if they're also holidays. ENOUGH! Do people say "Happy July 4th Eve!" or "Happy Memorial Day Eve!"? No, they don't. It shouldn't apply to any legal holiday. (Can you tell I'm a childless Atheist?)
With that, I will perform my civic duty and not listen to a single second of WRCH-FM. I don't even have them as a preset anyways.
With that, I will perform my civic duty and not listen to a single second of WRCH-FM. I don't even have them as a preset anyways.
Considering retail acts like it's Christmas before Halloween, I can't say I'm surprised. TV advertising goes nuts the moment the clock hits midnight to become November 1st. Then there are the people who say "Christmas Eve" and "New Year's Eve" as if they're also holidays. ENOUGH! Do people say "Happy July 4th Eve!" or "Happy Memorial Day Eve!"? No, they don't. It shouldn't apply to any legal holiday. (Can you tell I'm a childless Atheist?)
With that, I will perform my civic duty and not listen to a single second of WRCH-FM. I don't even have them as a preset anyways.
Christmas Eve is part of the Jesus narrative, at least how it has come down through the centuries, mingled with bits of folk tales and the Roman winter holiday it replaced. New Year's Eve is a purely pagan construct with no religious baggage whatsoever and it's become more of a holiday than New Year's Day itself, thanks to savvy marketing of alcoholic beverages. For college football fans, New Year's Day used to mean the biggest, most traditional of the bowl games, but now they're scattered around the end of one year and the beginning of the next, and the BCS playoffs have rendered them irrelevant in the big picture. So now Jan. 1 might as well be any other multi-game day during the drawn-out bowl season that begins in mid-January.
Noticed in the car last night that WALK over on Long Island has gone Christmas, not sure when it happened. 97.5 has a really good signal well inland in Connecticut, by far the strongest of the LI stations that make it up to Meriden (WPPB, WLNG, WEHM, etc.). When I first heard it many years ago, I figured it was in Norwalk just because of the call letters, was quite surprised to hear the ID and learn it was on the other side of the Sound. I don't suppose its COL was ever Norwalk, so how do you explain the call?
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WALK flipped either Friday the 15th or Saturday the 16th. I picked both them and WLTW 106.7 up playing Christmas Music on Saturday the 16th sitting in the parking of Stop and Shop on Route 10 in Southington.
Yes. WALK does have a strong signal. That's why Full Power Radio had to move its Bolton translator for BOMBA-FM from 97.5 to 97.1 FM. When the BOMBA-FM translator was still on 97.5 I could pick up them or WALK depending on which direction the wind was blowing in the parking lot of the Forestville Commons Shopping center on Pine Street in Bristol.
Now there's a translator on 97.5 in Windsor for WKND 1480. They go by "The Power 97.5".
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