OK Folks:
I know this is early, but what stations in the Metro NY area will flip to Christmas Music first???
I know this is early, but what stations in the Metro NY area will flip to Christmas Music first???
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Christmas Station Flip
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Christmas music has (thankfully) become a suburban & ex-burb radio station phenomenon over the past few years.
Lite FM tends to go all Christmas on the Friday before Thanksgiving AKA: the first day of seasonal "Gridlock Alert Days."
However, some LI, Hudson Valley, Ct., NJ or Pa. stations will flip just after Halloween. And see ratings bumps because of it.
Due to the prevalence of online streaming, "flipping" to Christmas has lost its shine in radio. Spotify, Pandora, YouTube all have Christmas mixes readily available all year round.
Lite FM tends to go all Christmas on the Friday before Thanksgiving AKA: the first day of seasonal "Gridlock Alert Days."
However, some LI, Hudson Valley, Ct., NJ or Pa. stations will flip just after Halloween. And see ratings bumps because of it.
Due to the prevalence of online streaming, "flipping" to Christmas has lost its shine in radio. Spotify, Pandora, YouTube all have Christmas mixes readily available all year round.
Really? You should tell that to the people who actually listen to radio. Last year, AC stations that flipped to Christmas music saw a huge increases compared to previous months:
Format Report Card, 2021: AC Hits 10-Year Highs In Holiday Survey, News/Talk Is Again The Year's Top Format.
Adult Contemporary stations' annual November-December switch to Christmas music paid ratings dividends in 2021, at levels not seen during the past ten years among both persons 18-34 and 25-54, based
I blame the Hallmark channel for this. Back in the day nobody talked about Christmas until after Thanksgiving. Now with their movies running year round people always think about Christmas.Really? You should tell that to the people who actually listen to radio. Last year, AC stations that flipped to Christmas music saw a huge increases compared to previous months:
Format Report Card, 2021: AC Hits 10-Year Highs In Holiday Survey, News/Talk Is Again The Year's Top Format.
Adult Contemporary stations' annual November-December switch to Christmas music paid ratings dividends in 2021, at levels not seen during the past ten years among both persons 18-34 and 25-54, basedwww.insideradio.com
NYRadioFan22
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I already made a thread about this
Once again, we hear from the demographics least likely to want not only the sort of music stations play in their holiday formats, but tight-playlisted formats in general. Male, too old, and music/radio geeks. It's a cliche, but men are from Mars, women from Venus, and nowhere is the difference greater than between 55+ male music/radio geeks and 25-54 female casual listeners with no real desire to hear anything outside their comfort zones.Really? You should tell that to the people who actually listen to radio. Last year, AC stations that flipped to Christmas music saw a huge increases compared to previous months:
Format Report Card, 2021: AC Hits 10-Year Highs In Holiday Survey, News/Talk Is Again The Year's Top Format.
Adult Contemporary stations' annual November-December switch to Christmas music paid ratings dividends in 2021, at levels not seen during the past ten years among both persons 18-34 and 25-54, based
And so have about 3 or 4 other people. The moderators should maybe consider consolidating them all into into 1 thread.
The first all-Christmas-music station in NYC is.... 102.7 WNEW-FM-HD2. No more Smooth Jazz, at least not until December 26th. (And no, Smooth Jazz -- or anything else -- did not move into the now-vacant 102.7-HD3.)
So WNEW HD2 is the first to flip to All Christmas...Thanks for researching Kevtronics.
That is pretty sad if there is no other Smooth Jazz outlet in NYC other than 102.7 HD2.
There's WBGO and WKCR if you prefer "real" Jazz.
It may only be a short time before WNEW-102.7 puts 24/7 Christmas music on their analog channel, perhaps to try to beat WLTW-106.7 "to the punch".
I am curious, is there a difference in the variant of Jazz between the two stations?
In the brief time I was tuning back and forth to sample each station, WKCR to me sounds like Jazz which I like, while WBGO sounded like dull elevator music which made me want to off myself.
NYRadioFan22
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106.7 Lite FM's sister station 93.9 Lite FM Chicago flipped to all Christmas today!!!!!
Different subject, but that News/Talk share is interesting. Here in SC the news/talk stations have been in a free fall since 2020 or so and very much opposite that trend. Iād be curious to see the stations driving it upward so much. Levin, Hannity, and Norry (and company) have lost their luster around here.Really? You should tell that to the people who actually listen to radio. Last year, AC stations that flipped to Christmas music saw a huge increases compared to previous months:
Format Report Card, 2021: AC Hits 10-Year Highs In Holiday Survey, News/Talk Is Again The Year's Top Format.
Adult Contemporary stations' annual November-December switch to Christmas music paid ratings dividends in 2021, at levels not seen during the past ten years among both persons 18-34 and 25-54, based
The most local station I have ever heard. They had ads in the late 90s and early 00s for a missing cow š lol. I grew up in their listening area. I am shocked it isn't 102.3 Lite FM and Max 106.3 isn't 106.3 Kiss FM.
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NYRadioFan22
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I have a feeling 106.7 will announce it tomorrow and Rich Kaminski I believe is always the one to say it, unless of course they post it on social media first
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