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So when will KOST start the holiday music this year?
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Last year was November 12. So a good guess would be the 11th:
I am sure the great veterans of America's armed forces will appreciate their day being undermined by a big radio conglomerate publicizing and celebrating their shift to Christmas music six weeks in advance of the actual holiday.
And of course as we have noted before, it won't be actual Christmas music, it will be "Holiday" music. Lots of Sleigh Rides, no Silent Nights. It is a great microcosm of the vacuous society in which we live.
It's CHRISTMAS music in my books. If certain people want to cancel the holiday, good luck with that agenda. But yeah, the music shouldn't begin until Thanksgiving weekend at the earliest.
Today (November 1st), sister station WLIT-93.9 Chicago will go all-Christmas at 4 P.M. CDT.
Could WLIT's flip be part of a coordinated flip, like what I-Heart did last year when some 80 of that company's stations went all-Christmas at the same time (or to be more exact, at a certain hour in each time zone)?
If I-Heart has a coordinated flip that WLIT is a part of, then KOST might take the plunge at 4 P.M. PDT.
Could WLIT's flip be part of a coordinated flip, like what I-Heart did last year when some 80 of that company's stations went all-Christmas at the same time (or to be more exact, at a certain hour in each time zone)?
If I-Heart has a coordinated flip that WLIT is a part of, then KOST might take the plunge at 4 P.M. PDT.
At Least A Half-Dozen New Christmas Stations Launched Today.
With Halloween in the rear-view mirror, a flurry of stations flipped the switch to all-Christmas music today – nearly eight weeks before the Yuletide holiday. Joining iHeartMedia soft AC “93.9
Most Christmas music radio playlists have become heavily secular. I wish these stations would make an exception for Christmas itself. Let them play whatever ratio of actual Christian vs. secular holiday music they please during their giant, multi-month-long all-holiday music marathons. But for the actual holiday itself, perhaps starting at sunset on Christmas Eve and continuing until 11:59:59 PM on Christmas Day, it would be nice if their playlists were adjusted to keep the secular songs down to no more than 25%, for the sake of all the faithful.
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I feel compelled to add something here. I actually resent how out of control these marathons' lengths have become. Disdain, among Christians and non-Christians alike, is now quite common for all the Christmas decorations and marketing department-manufactured gift buying hysteria getting kicked off earlier and earlier every year. I'm one of the folks who has always intensely disliked it, and on that note, more and more, I'm beginning to see stations that go "all Holiday music" the split second Halloween ends (or not long after) as little more than participants in that same revenue-crazed, greedy behavior. I know others feel the same way, and yet it's clear from the ratings of stations like KOST, whenever they go all-Christmas, that they're making so much money, nobody will ever be able to talk them into backing off. But after reflecting a moment on my words above, I'm kind of wondering if my idea, which was originally just an off-handed thought, might actually be the perfect "solution" to this "dilemma." Imagine having a 75%/25% or even a 90%/10% secular/faithful song selection ratio during the main portion of each station's marathon, which gets billed on-air as "Holiday music." But then, each station flips that to 10%/90% secular/faithful and bills it as "Christmas music" for the aforementioned sunset on Christmas Eve to 11:59 PM on Christmas Day period -- the very timeframe that Christians consider to be the actual holiday itself proper. That would make the latter timeframe a completely separate "product" and "experience," in effect. Done this way, these mega-marathons possibly wouldn't contribute nearly as much (or even contribute at all) to the feeling many faithful get that the spiritual music's overuse runs Christmas into the ground. The faithful music itself, played almost entirely during that brief period that constitutes the actual holiday, would even seem special to everybody again, the way it felt special hearing it on the air decades ago when stations only ran 24 hours or so worth, and when it was not primarily secular.
Just a thought.
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I feel compelled to add something here. I actually resent how out of control these marathons' lengths have become. Disdain, among Christians and non-Christians alike, is now quite common for all the Christmas decorations and marketing department-manufactured gift buying hysteria getting kicked off earlier and earlier every year. I'm one of the folks who has always intensely disliked it, and on that note, more and more, I'm beginning to see stations that go "all Holiday music" the split second Halloween ends (or not long after) as little more than participants in that same revenue-crazed, greedy behavior. I know others feel the same way, and yet it's clear from the ratings of stations like KOST, whenever they go all-Christmas, that they're making so much money, nobody will ever be able to talk them into backing off. But after reflecting a moment on my words above, I'm kind of wondering if my idea, which was originally just an off-handed thought, might actually be the perfect "solution" to this "dilemma." Imagine having a 75%/25% or even a 90%/10% secular/faithful song selection ratio during the main portion of each station's marathon, which gets billed on-air as "Holiday music." But then, each station flips that to 10%/90% secular/faithful and bills it as "Christmas music" for the aforementioned sunset on Christmas Eve to 11:59 PM on Christmas Day period -- the very timeframe that Christians consider to be the actual holiday itself proper. That would make the latter timeframe a completely separate "product" and "experience," in effect. Done this way, these mega-marathons possibly wouldn't contribute nearly as much (or even contribute at all) to the feeling many faithful get that the spiritual music's overuse runs Christmas into the ground. The faithful music itself, played almost entirely during that brief period that constitutes the actual holiday, would even seem special to everybody again, the way it felt special hearing it on the air decades ago when stations only ran 24 hours or so worth, and when it was not primarily secular.
Just a thought.
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You'd think one of them would call it Ho-Ho-Ho-liday music.
Fellow I Heart radio station KEZ 99.9 in Phoenix flipped to all Christmas music yesterday, but surprisingly KOST has not flipped yet. Any idea when KOST will flip the switch to all Christmas?
It is interesting that Music Choice Sounds of the Seasons went from "Every Day Is Halloween" to nothing but Christmas songs in one day.
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Next Friday
They keep the same Holiday Music Schedule every year.
So will Ellen k be on air next Friday. It's veterans day?
She'll make the announcement Monday
That’s been the case since the early 2000s
I went to a mall one Veterans Day (or possibly Veterans Day observed if the real day was on a weekend) and Santa made his big debut. And of course there was Christmas music playing.
I know it was Veterans Day because the libraries are closed and I go to the college I graduated from to their library.
I did that for several years before getting my own computer but now it's just to make sure I don't go anywhere else on the wrong day, and in case my Internet goes out, which did happen early this year.
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