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2012 All-Christmas Music Stations

HenryOchs

HenryOchs

The 2012 Christmas Holiday Season will be here before you know it...do you have any guesses on what station will be the first to flip to The All-Christmas Music format?

Here's mine:
96.5 KOIT will make the annual flip to All-Christmas Music on November 16th and as usual, 94.5 KBAY will flip to All-Christmas music the day before Thanksgiving.
 
Why is this always such a fascinating topic - year after year? As far as I know, KOIT is still the king, and they usually start first.

I'll also guess that "The New 103.7" will plug a lot of Christmas music into their classic hits format, much as 99.7/KFRC did in the past.
 
Lkeller said:
I'll also guess that "The New 103.7" will plug a lot of Christmas music into their classic hits format, much as 99.7/KFRC did in the past.
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I thought 103.7 really got it right last year -- every 3rd-or-4th song was a holiday tune, artists and songs consistent with the format, making it enjoyable without being nonstop Xmas. I realize KOITb gets a huge boost (as do most A/Cs that go all-Xmas, thanks to retail outlets that put them on) but man with as small a rotation as they use every year, it's pretty painful by about the 17th time you hear "Feliz Navidad" or that damn Mariah Carey tune.
 
Henry Ochs said:
The 2012 Christmas Holiday Season will be here before you know it...do you have any guesses on what station will be the first to flip to The All-Christmas Music format?

Here's mine:
96.5 KOIT will make the annual flip to All-Christmas Music on November 16th and as usual, 94.5 KBAY will flip to All-Christmas music the day before Thanksgiving.
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Noooooooooooooooooooooooo! Stations should wait until at least the day after Thanksgiving. I worked for one station that started with one Christmas song per hour after Thanksgiving, then slowly added another song per hour until Christmas. Stations should go back to regular programming the day after Christmas.

Don't make the mistake I once made. My first full-time station was in Alaska. Right after Christmas I shouted, "Thank God Christmas is OVER!" I later realized we had a large Russian Orthodox population. Sooo on January 7th (if memory serves), I played some Christmas music for those celebrating.
 
Steven Roy said:
Noooooooooooooooooooooooo! Stations should wait until at least the day after Thanksgiving. I worked for one station that started with one Christmas song per hour after Thanksgiving, then slowly added another song per hour until Christmas. Stations should go back to regular programming the day after Christmas.
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I agree with the gradual ramp-up starting the day after Thanksgiving culminating in all Christmas music Dec 24th and 25th. However, I've always found it annoying and somewhat depressing that starting 00:00:01 on Dec. 26th, Christmas music gets "disappeared" like an out-of-favor Soviet apparatchik. Even if you're not Eastern Orthodox, there are parties, get-togethers, shopping excursions, etc., going on until New Years Day, not to mention the 12 Days of Christmas tradition.
 
TomJF said:
Steven Roy said:
Noooooooooooooooooooooooo! Stations should wait until at least the day after Thanksgiving. I worked for one station that started with one Christmas song per hour after Thanksgiving, then slowly added another song per hour until Christmas. Stations should go back to regular programming the day after Christmas.
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I agree with the gradual ramp-up starting the day after Thanksgiving culminating in all Christmas music Dec 24th and 25th. However, I've always found it annoying and somewhat depressing that starting 00:00:01 on Dec. 26th, Christmas music gets "disappeared" like an out-of-favor Soviet apparatchik. Even if you're not Eastern Orthodox, there are parties, get-togethers, shopping excursions, etc., going on until New Years Day, not to mention the 12 Days of Christmas tradition.
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I'm kind of opposite - it's depressing to me to hear Christmas music until I'm in the mood...which is generally about December 15th.
 
The last few years of my time at a CC station were tough at Christmas. Local control was taken away and we had to adhere to a company playlist. 60 year old songs in a 3 hour rotation. For the jock it was hard to take, but believe it or not, the numbers went even higher.
 
I wholeheartedly agree, that the Christmas Music should begin after Thanksgiving. Unfortunatley, the Corporations are only concerned in their bottom line. They see they can make more money by starting as early as possible, they will. Then they will never look back. Eventually planning in how they can do this earlier and earlier to make more and more money.

And let me be the first to wish a
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone!
 
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