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Any All-Country Christmas Stations?

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John1

A lot of country stations have added Christmas songs to their mix for the season, but are there any all-country Christmas music commercial stations anywhere this year? There are several good internet-only country Christmas stations but it seems like it would work well in markets with more than one country FM as it does with the Adult Contemporary stations that make the switch each year. I would think it would be good especially for a station like WSM-FM in Nashville running 3rd in the local FM country ratings - with a potential library of thousands of versions of country Christmas songs all recorded in town. The other Christmas stations already play a heavy load of crossover pop-country songs - Brenda Lee, Bobby Helms, Elvis, Kenny Rogers, Gene Autry, etc. so it just seems like a good fit.
 
I agree. AC stations often go into double digits by playing all-Christmas music from mid-November to late December. And that is often at the expense of Country stations in the market.

You'd think in markets where there are more than one Country station, that one of them would go All-Christmas. And of course, that would mean a 75% or 80% mix of holiday music by Country artists... but as most Country stations do, a few non-Country Christmas classics from Bing, Carpenters, Nat King Cole, etc. would air as well.
 
I think they all were last night.

Cat Country in Charlotte and The Wolf and Q-104.1 in Greensboro. Amazingly, Q-104.1, which is trying to be the hipper of the two stations, played Andy Williams' "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" (which was nice to hear). How does Andy Williams get to be country?

I'm not sure about WSOC in Charlotte. A song can have lyrics about Christmas and not be familiar, which is unfortunate.
 
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