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106.7 Lite FM 2023 Christmas Music Wishlist

Its the same cycle each year: Get pumped that Christmas music is starting, they play the same 5-10 songs and then I switch to another station in a few hours. Ill stick with XM holly. Also I notice they play way more commercials than other stations. Counted a 9 minute break one time!
 
djl said:
But given the holidays happen at similar times of the year why can’t they call it holiday music. It is not fair for Jewish people like myself that want some of our music to also be represented. Shouldn’t there be some parity? I’m not making this a religious debate but I feel a bit offended that the stations (WLTW, WKJY and WALK) all do the same.

There is a decent Jewish population in Market 1 and there should be more representation. I don’t want to make it a debate but those of us who feel this way should contact those stations and request more Chanukah songs to be played.
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I'm down for Chanukah songs and Kwanzaa songs and any other religion songs!
 
MVB13 said:
I'm down for Chanukah songs and Kwanzaa songs and any other religion songs!
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Most of the Chanukah/Hanukkah music people hear on the radio is dreck. The good stuff is too "Jewish/ethnic" to get played. Though if Ma'oz Tzur* ever got slipped into Lite FM's bacchanal of Christmas saccharin, that would really be a December to remember!

* The Hebrew name for "Rock of Ages", traditionally sung after the candles are lit
 
Weiserguy said:
Most of the Chanukah/Hanukkah music people hear on the radio is dreck. The good stuff is too "Jewish/ethnic" to get played. Though if Ma'oz Tzur* ever got slipped into Lite FM's bacchanal of Christmas saccharin, that would really be a December to remember!

* The Hebrew name for "Rock of Ages", traditionally sung after the candles are lit
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I think the following version of "Ma'oz Tzur" would fit Lite FM's Christmas format nicely.

 
JackindaBox said:
Usually they just do Christmas music so maybe mixing it in with the rest of the Holiday music could create record breaking highs for the station during Christmas Time.
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How much "traditional" seasonal music that is well known by all and popular across racial and ethnic groupings is there beyond what is played today?

Station groups that do Christmas programming research the songs. Which tunes for groups that don't celebrate Christmas would pass a music test?

In the case of Jews, we have about 2.4% of the US population (approximately 6 million adults) and it is not uniformly located, with 1.9 million just in the New York metro area, or around a third of all American Jews (https://ajpp.brandeis.edu/documents/2020/JewishPopulationDataBrief2020.pdf)

Here is a map from that fascinating source:

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So, for holiday programming it might make sense in LA and NYC to explore this, but practically nowhere else.

Beyond the Jewish community, what other group has a faith or ethnic based holiday near Christmas?

I know little about Muslim practices, but my understanding is that "Ramadan prohibits eating, drinking, and sexual activities between dawn (fajr), and sunset (maghrib). Fasting is considered an act of deeply personal worship in which Muslims seek a raised level of closeness to God. It helps them acknowledge Allah as the source of all sustenance." And because Ramadan does not follow the Western calendar, it is not "synchronized" with Christmas.

(Note: this is a sensitive subject in this era and I am not appropriating the beliefs of other faiths than my own, but trying to look at this in a pure quantitative manner. But statistics can be confused with semantics all to easily and I apologize if the data seems to "shut out" anyone but Christians and those of Christian heritage)

(Second note: Until I was 15, I grew up in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, which is 50% Jewish. "Heights High" had nearly 70% Jewish enrollment, so I was in a rather small minority! Still, the school did "Christmas" celebrations and simply gave time off for Hannukah. I asked a school administrator about that, and he said, "we have many beliefes, but we are all Americans. Christmas is as much about America as about religion". Interesting perspective and worth considering when discussing Christmas radio programming. )
 
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As per usual, Friday 11/17/2023 at 5 PM is when The Lite flips the switch in conjunction with the
Radio City Christmas Spectacular (Cubby + Christine broadcasting live from the venue 5-7 PM).
This year their special guest is Debbie Gibson.

RadioOnline.com: WLTW Makes Annual Switch to NY's Christmas Station
 
DavidEduardo said:
How much "traditional" seasonal music that is well known by all and popular across racial and ethnic groupings is there beyond what is played today?

Station groups that do Christmas programming research the songs. Which tunes for groups that don't celebrate Christmas would pass a music test?

In the case of Jews, we have about 2.4% of the US population (approximately 6 million adults) and it is not uniformly located, with 1.9 million just in the New York metro area, or around a third of all American Jews (https://ajpp.brandeis.edu/documents/2020/JewishPopulationDataBrief2020.pdf)

Here is a map from that fascinating source:

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So, for holiday programming it might make sense in LA and NYC to explore this, but practically nowhere else.

Beyond the Jewish community, what other group has a faith or ethnic based holiday near Christmas?

I know little about Muslim practices, but my understanding is that "Ramadan prohibits eating, drinking, and sexual activities between dawn (fajr), and sunset (maghrib). Fasting is considered an act of deeply personal worship in which Muslims seek a raised level of closeness to God. It helps them acknowledge Allah as the source of all sustenance." And because Ramadan does not follow the Western calendar, it is not "synchronized" with Christmas.

(Note: this is a sensitive subject in this era and I am not appropriating the beliefs of other faiths than my own, but trying to look at this in a pure quantitative manner. But statistics can be confused with semantics all to easily and I apologize if the data seems to "shut out" anyone but Christians and those of Christian heritage)

(Second note: Until I was 15, I grew up in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, which is 50% Jewish. "Heights High" had nearly 70% Jewish enrollment, so I was in a rather small minority! Still, the school did "Christmas" celebrations and simply gave time off for Hannukah. I asked a school administrator about that, and he said, "we have many beliefes, but we are all Americans. Christmas is as much about America as about religion". Interesting perspective and worth considering when discussing Christmas radio programming. )
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Much as Easter ties in with ancient "pagan" spring holidays that celebrate the rebirth of nature rather than a crucified savior, so too does Christmas tie in with other faiths' winter holidays that offer hope at the bleakest time of the year, which, of course, is why Christianity evolved the December date for Christmas.

My Jewish view is this. Hanukkah, while it ostensibly celebrates a miracle, is where it is on the calendar for the same reason similar winter holidays are on where they are on all those other religious calendars. If you want to believe that a miracle occurred in all these Decembers strictly by coincidence, go on believing; however, that "coincidence" strains my credulity to the breaking point. Why do I still consider myself Jewish, then, while referring to Christianity as "Revisionist Judaism"? Because "we" had the idea first, dammit!

As far as music on the radio goes, I actually enjoy the religious, classically based Christmas music much more than the commercial stuff, even if people who share my religion wrote much of the holiday pop but practically none of the classical music. (OK, Mendelssohn, but he converted to Christianity at 7, well before he wrote any faith-related music.) Thankfully, what adult contemporary stations do in November and December matters little to me, as I generally don't listen to them.
 
The last song before 106.7 Lite FM switched to Christmas music was "Can't Fight the Moonlight" by LeAnn Rimes.

The Christmas format kicked off just after 5:00 pm with "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" by Andy Williams.
 
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