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Just why does Hallmark start 24/7 Christmas in mid October?
- Thread starter tall_guy1
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Because they can. It's their channel. Who owns the Hallmark Channel? Christmas sales have already started:
Some people send custom Christmas cards. If you do, the time to order them is now, because it takes at least a month to process.
Remember: No one forces you to watch.
Some people send custom Christmas cards. If you do, the time to order them is now, because it takes at least a month to process.
Remember: No one forces you to watch.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
And because the advertising clients support them doing so.
On the radio side, a rimshot to Louisville KY has already gone 24/7 Christmas (although that appears to be partially stunting):
radioinsight.com
On the radio side, a rimshot to Louisville KY has already gone 24/7 Christmas (although that appears to be partially stunting):
The First All-Christmas Station Of 2024 Is…
New Albany Broadcasting Company's 1570 WLRS New Albany IN and 92.5 W223DK Louisville KY is the first all-Christmas music station
radioinsight.com
Well that will ramp up more after Election Day. On the radio side expect AC’s stations to flip their OTA’s to Christmas music between Election Day to Thanksgiving day.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
By which time -- to get back on-topic -- Hallmark will be on their second or third replays of some of their Christmas movie library.
They dropped the preview a month ago for “Holiday Touchdown”, the Hallmark Chiefs Christmas movie filmed around KC, even though it doesn’t air until the end of November. So I’m not surprised Hallmark is already starting to play Christmas movies now.
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Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story's First Trailer Is Filled with Candy Cane Hearts and Donna Kelce
Hallmark Channel dropped the first trailer for their Kansas City Chiefs Christmas movie, 'Holiday Touchdown,' and it features stars Tyler Hynes and Hunter King as well as Travis Kelce's mom, Donna Kelce
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
I sometimes feel that they do nothing else in the first nine months of the year besides create more such movies for their library.
Very true. Those movies are made with theatrical quality. They sometimes go on location to shoot them. To get the snow in the background, they have to shoot in the winter, so they're shooting in February for a movie that will air in the fall.
I have to admit that my wife and I found a Hallmark movie starting yesterday and I recognized Catherine Bell, who I had liked from the JAG series (I am revealing rather lowbrow and mundane testes in entertainment) and we started watching. It was well done, but with the acting much better than the writing... which was sometimes hard for the good principle actors to overcome.
I'm rolling my eyes already.They dropped the preview a month ago for “Holiday Touchdown”, the Hallmark Chiefs Christmas movie filmed around KC, even though it doesn’t air until the end of November. So I’m not surprised Hallmark is already starting to play Christmas movies now.
Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story's First Trailer Is Filled with Candy Cane Hearts and Donna Kelce
Hallmark Channel dropped the first trailer for their Kansas City Chiefs Christmas movie, 'Holiday Touchdown,' and it features stars Tyler Hynes and Hunter King as well as Travis Kelce's mom, Donna Kelce
Who's in the mood for Christmas in October though? Couldn't they wait a bit longer? I notice a few streaming services have a very tiny amount of Christmas movies in October (Deck the Halls on Starz, Scrooged on P+), but most don't start being on them until November. Elf is on TBS on November 2nd, which still seems too soon to start.
Where’s your a few months before Christmas spirit?
Once again: Nobody forces you to watch. Lots of other choices. Their whole business is about Christmas.
Some of the simplistic, happy ending stories are fun no matter when. Even if the event takes place in the Christmas season, if the story is engaging it is entertaining to watch any time of the year.
I remember being in Argentina a week or two in the pre-Christmas season a good number of times. On the weekends, we'd go to the beach or attend a soccer game or an outdoor concert. It was the peak of Summer, and snow, Christmas trees and the like were far from our minds.
Right. Probably not in the Hallmark lineup, but "Home Alone" is fun even if you're watching it in October, and The Sandlot is a fine movie outside of baseball season.
formerradio
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They do it to make money.
It is still currently in hell for Halloween.🎃Where’s your a few months before Christmas spirit?
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