Christmas Music Starts Early Across The Country Wonder if it has to do with the fact that it's an election year? Anyway, looks like stations are making the switch earlier this year, despite the fact that Thanksgiving and the official holiday season comes later this year.
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Christmas music starts earlier than usual this year
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It is rare for so many stations to flip this early in November. Can you imagine three stations in Louisville are already all Christmas?
Most of the iHeart AC stations flip together (except WLTW NYC, which always switches the Friday before Thanksgiving). But this year, WLIT, the iHeart station in Chicago, decided to flip on November 1 before any of its sister stations.
An AC station that rarely goes all-Christmas is 100.7 WHUD, in New York City's northern suburbs and Hudson Valley. Most times, it would limit playing all-Christmas music to the weekends after Thanksgiving and maybe a few days before Christmas. So it was a surprise that WHUD flipped on October 31.
Most of the iHeart AC stations flip together (except WLTW NYC, which always switches the Friday before Thanksgiving). But this year, WLIT, the iHeart station in Chicago, decided to flip on November 1 before any of its sister stations.
An AC station that rarely goes all-Christmas is 100.7 WHUD, in New York City's northern suburbs and Hudson Valley. Most times, it would limit playing all-Christmas music to the weekends after Thanksgiving and maybe a few days before Christmas. So it was a surprise that WHUD flipped on October 31.
Well then, the follow up question is....
What does @TheBigA want for Christmas? Please don’t say “oldies on AM”….
No, the follow up question is why does everything start earlier this year?
I don’t mind I love the Christmas season it’s such a short time so I’m ready!
I wish the stations which went all-Christmas would adjust their processing to better suit the music. It includes a lot of older and more ballad-y material than they normally play, which leads to really bad audible clipping distortion, especially on songs with a solo vocal on top of a bass line, like Kenny Loggins' "Celebrate Me Home".
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