Any guesses on what it might be? If they flip tommorow?
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93.9 The Christmas channel
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I heard an annoucement on 93.9 today that the new station will debut on January 2nd at 9:39 amHoward Dean said:
not sure what 93.9 is doing in terms of whats on but its in pure stunt mode now as the christmas music is now gone from 93.9. The Christmas Music has been gone since Noon on 93.9 according to yes.com as Kenny G's Greensleeves was the last song played on 93.9
I will be looking forward to picking up WIBC on my FM/MP3 player that does not have AM ability. This should help listenership.
I'll also be looking forward to listening to Rush LIVE starting at Noon, like the rest of the modern world.
It will also be nice to finally get decent traffic reports between 3 and 4pm on a regular basis (I'm assuming).
I'll also be looking forward to listening to Rush LIVE starting at Noon, like the rest of the modern world.
It will also be nice to finally get decent traffic reports between 3 and 4pm on a regular basis (I'm assuming).
93.9fm is using the exact same stunt as 106.5fm used in Toledo some years ago when it changed from active rock to modern rock.
Up in Funcie 93.9 doesn't come in worth a crap... anyone know if they've flipped to anything yet, or are they still Christmasing... (wish they were... why do stations and marketing folks drop Christmas on the 26th? Seems funny since they've started promoting Christmas as early as Sept/Oct for everyone to stop talking about it the day after... when the actual "12 days of Christmas" runs from the 24th into the new year! I'd love to hear a station to continue to play some holiday tunes for the week after!)
93.9 flips on January 2 at 9:39 am still to an unmentioned format but they dropped the christmas music at 12 noon yesterday and went to a music track with some weird sounds over it
Stations didn't use to drop Christmas programming on the 26th...it once ran through New Years (especially on the EZ listening stations), but over the years as God & everything related to Him has been pushed further into the background, the Christmas music has ended earlier and earlier. It's now getting to where there are stations that play little or no Christmas music. Another sign of the times...BoreUsMalenko said:
So I logged on to the WWFT web site to listen in and I hear this soundtrack... sounds like someone making electronic pit fart sounds, or some bad video game music.
ten_four said:
Yup. We add more Christmas tunes into the line-up leading up to Christmas, then play a one or two every hour the days afterward leading up to New Year's.
It's not like anyone doesn't shop or visit family from the 26th onward.
BobOnTheJob said:
So starting Christmas music on Thanksgiving Day and dropping it Dec. 26 is some how playing little or no music? ???
One of the things that drove me to satellite radio was one of my regular faves switching to Christmas music sooner and sooner each year. When I was a kid it seemed like only station per market would do Christmas, and then it only started a few days or a week before Christmas Day.
They're playing more, not less.
What is that music track they are using? Really weird.
Ducky Bubbles Goes a-Courting' a popular remix of an early 1940s jaunt by Gerome Bailey. is what someone put over on the WWFT wikipedia pageHoward Dean said:
So starting Christmas music on Thanksgiving Day and dropping it Dec. 26 is some how playing little or no music?
[/quote] I was thinking back to the day when every music station played Christmas music. While I'm not a CHR listener, I'm told that CC's Kiss/Louisville played zero Christmas music...my comment wasn't meant to indicate an overall reduction in Christmas music, rather as a notation that some stations have opted out entirely. I'm not saying that's good or bad, but it is becoming more common now than it was in Christmases long ago.
[/quote] I was thinking back to the day when every music station played Christmas music. While I'm not a CHR listener, I'm told that CC's Kiss/Louisville played zero Christmas music...my comment wasn't meant to indicate an overall reduction in Christmas music, rather as a notation that some stations have opted out entirely. I'm not saying that's good or bad, but it is becoming more common now than it was in Christmases long ago.
BobOnTheJob said:
Maybe it's just the stations you've listened to, because it seems like certain formats just don't integrate Christmas music into their playlists. Classic rock, CHR, hip-hop are all good examples. CHR may play some Christmas currents, but those will be few and far between. The ones that seem to integrate it more (at least around here) are AC, classic hits or country stations. This year I was surprised to find several gospel/religious outlets playing all kinds of Christmas music, even secular stuff.
Would it upset you to know that the vast majority of XM channels didn't play Christmas music?
R-O-C-K in the USA... Wasn't that a J Mellancamp title?
I spend a lot of time on the XM 60's on 6 channel & it didn't bother me in the least that there were no Christmas tunes... They had several full time Christmas channels, which I probably listened to a combined total of 30 minutes. My original point was that Christmas music once lasted well beyond Dec 25...now it seems to stop by 12:01AM on Dec 26. I stick with my assessment that there are fewer days in 2007 in which Christmas music is played than there were in 1970.Zach said:BobOnTheJob said:
Maybe it's just the stations you've listened to, because it seems like certain formats just don't integrate Christmas music into their playlists. Classic rock, CHR, hip-hop are all good examples. CHR may play some Christmas currents, but those will be few and far between. The ones that seem to integrate it more (at least around here) are AC, classic hits or country stations. This year I was surprised to find several gospel/religious outlets playing all kinds of Christmas music, even secular stuff.
Would it upset you to know that the vast majority of XM channels didn't play Christmas music?
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