A Sign That WROR May Again Go All-Christmas??

[Joseph_Gallant]

Today (October 23rd), the background of the homepage for WROR-105.7 was changed, so it is mainly in green and red, which are the colors of............Christmas!

At this writing, the other website pages have the regular background colors, which have a yellow and red motif.

Given that their website has had a green-and-red background motif when programming all-Christmas in the past, and given that this change happened this soon, I wonder if they might be planning to go all-Christmas early this year.

It probably won't be in October, but it could be on or not long after November 1st, especially if Greater Media thinks that someone else (read: WHBA-101.7) takes the plunge that early (which I think they actually might).

Comment: Shouldn't the background colors of WROR's homepage have been changed to orange and yellow, with some black trim, through Halloween??

 

[raccoonradio]

For those wondering when the flip happened last year, from WROR entry on Wikipedia:
>> In 2011, for example, WODS started playing Christmas music on Nov. 10, and WROR changed within an hour.

 

[Jacko]

Even if 101.7 The Harbor flips to all-Christmas, I don't think that should be the deciding factor to if/when WROR flips. 101.7 only covers a portion of the market and are relative newcomers to the radio dial--not like going up against 103.3 WODS. Now if CBS decides to flip, say, Mix 104.1 to all-Christmas, then I'd bet that WROR would flip minutes after.

As I indicated in another thread, after this year's all-Christmas flip on WROR, I'd wager that they come back on December 26th with less of a classic rock lean and more of a true classic hits/pop sound, similar to WODS. Hence the moniker change to "classic hits." Perhaps some of the imaging will change as well--their current imaging is a bit "hokey."

Jacko

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

This afternoon (October 24th), WROR-105.7's homepage went back to it's regular background colors.

Maybe they were hoping that messageboards like this one would talk about it

 

[blackgold]

WHBA had better not flip to "all Christmas!" It's just getting its feet wet in this market and needs time to develop its niche! Besides, it doesn't cover the entire Boston market. When Crap Channel took the signal over, I vowed never to listen to it again! Crap Channel needs to be investigated and put out of business.

 

[bigtom101]

I love Loren & Wally (and the imaging is great for a Classic Hits)...but oy is that playlist lilly white! With WODS gone, would it kill them to add in the Motown/Soul/R&B that made it on the pop charts moreso than once every other hour?

 

[WMC2006]

would it kill them to add in the Motown/Soul/R&B that made it on the pop charts moreso than once every other hour?

Not that long ago, they were doing Motown Mondays. Not sure if they are still doing that.

 

[Kenny Atkinson]

For those wondering when the flip happened last year, from WROR entry on Wikipedia:
>> In 2011, for example, WODS started playing Christmas music on Nov. 10, and WROR changed within an hour.

As I mentioned on another thread WODS debuted an HD-3 channel thats all Christmas as of arund 10/15/12

 

[CTListener]

For those wondering when the flip happened last year, from WROR entry on Wikipedia:
>> In 2011, for example, WODS started playing Christmas music on Nov. 10, and WROR changed within an hour.

As I mentioned on another thread WODS debuted an HD-3 channel thats all Christmas as of arund 10/15/12

Irrelevant. Nobody flips a non-encrypted, full-power signal in response to what a competitor is doing on a weaker companion signal that few people even have the necessary receiver -- with proprietary technology inside -- to listen to.