Flips to all-Christmas formats will start happening soon. Obviously all-Christmas stations are mostly AC or religious stations changing format for a few weeks. But are there any unlikely formats switching to all-Christmas, like say a top 40 or noncommercial station?
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Any non AC/religious stations going all-Christmas?
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I know in Milwaukee Wisconsin, Oldies station 95.7 WRIT always flips to Christmas, to complete with 99.1 WMYX every year. It used to be WLTQ (Light 97.3), until then CC flipped formats to complete with 96.5 WKLH. So to keep Christmas music in the station's lineup, they flipped WRIT to Christmas after 2003 or 2004. In Chicago, 93.9 WLIT is the only city grade station that has Christmas music, while NWIN station 107.1 WZVN Lowell Indiana goes Christmas, while normally being either AC or Bright AC (or whatever it's called now, since they dropped Westwood One to go with Jones, then Westwood One sold their satellite radio service, which was renamed Dial Global, then Dial Global buys Jones Radio. Now Cumulus buys out Dial Global).
Very late on this, but 98.3 Carthage, MS, an R&B oldies station, went all-Christmas on November 1. Also, WJDX-FM Jackson (classic hits) went all-Xmas around the same time.
This is interesting!
I caught the last few minutes of Delilah on a local AC station (regular music), and after midnight when regular programming returned, it was Christmas music! The holiday jingles and everything. I have tuned in during times when Delilah is not on, and they are back to regular music.
Not sure why the Christmas music is on now, but I am enjoying it!
I caught the last few minutes of Delilah on a local AC station (regular music), and after midnight when regular programming returned, it was Christmas music! The holiday jingles and everything. I have tuned in during times when Delilah is not on, and they are back to regular music.
Not sure why the Christmas music is on now, but I am enjoying it!
I have to make a correction on a posting I made from 11/10/2014. WMYX Milwaukee did not compete with WRIT with the Christmas music format this year, as in years past. They decided to stick with their regular format the entire time, but had the Christmas music on a separate internet stream. I'm wondering if it's because iHeart Media beat them the last several years, that it was best for Entercom (owners of WMYX, WXSS, & AM WSSP) to stick with their normal formats.
Not on the radio, but a local convenience store I go to still has Christmas music playing along with ads for the store on their audio system.
It was legal until January 7.This is interesting!
I caught the last few minutes of Delilah on a local AC station (regular music), and after midnight when regular programming returned, it was Christmas music! The holiday jingles and everything. I have tuned in during times when Delilah is not on, and they are back to regular music.
Not sure why the Christmas music is on now, but I am enjoying it!
Though a church I walked past was playing "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming" January 20 at noon.
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