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93.9 The Christmas channel

BobOnTheJob said:
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.
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I would agree with that, Bob. The stations I worked at would probably start the day after Thanksgiving, inserting maybe one cut an hour, then increasing it each week up until Christmas, when it became total Christmas music, then tapering it off until the first of the year. This was back in the 80's. I really don't listen to it other than maybe at holiday parties or in a mall, but your assessment is totally correct.
 
I agree with Dan, although I recently worked at a country station in North Carolina that went wall-to-wall Christmas music the day after Thanksgiving and did that all weekend (for the Christmas shoppers) then went back to 1 per hour the following Monday. That increased to 2 per hour the next week, then 3, etc., and at noon on Christmas eve all Christmas until midnight Christmas day.
 
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