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Anybody airing Christmas music yet?

WZKY Albemarle NC is an oldies station which plays country songs at Christmas, and I have heard a few of those. Last night, though, they played what sounded like Mannheim Steamroller.

Good Time Oldies and the local morning show on WSAT Salisbury NC are also airing some Christmas songs.
 
MarcB said:
KOOL Radio the Oldies stations in Southern New England has been sprinkling in Christmas songs the last few days.

WNTY (96.1/990 Connecticut), WACM (100.1/1270 Springfield, Mass), and WSKP (104.3/1180 Westerly, RI)
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And WMAS (94.7 Springfield) went all-Christmas around Thanksgiving, leaving WHYN-FM to rule the AC roost all by itself for a month.
 
CTListener said:
And WMAS (94.7 Springfield) went all-Christmas around Thanksgiving, leaving WHYN-FM to rule the AC roost all by itself for a month.
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Besides, I think WHYN will go full on Top 40 eventually, since Springfield is probably the biggest market without a Top 40 station, ahead of Tyler, TX and if Mix 93.1 flips to Mainstream Top 40, that will fill a major gap in the Springfield market. For now, the de facto Top 40 station in Spring field is WHYN's sister station, WKSS-FM/Kiss 95.7.

Last year, WMAS and WHYN-FM both played wall-to-wall Christmas music.


Stop reading my reply here, because this is about Tyler's reason of lacking a Top 40 station, not WHYN. Tyler just lost their only Top 40 station recently (4 months ago), after someone just laid off everybody for a simple AC issue that they could have fixed no problem, but the owner decided to use the AC problem to blame everyone who works at the Top 40 station there (95.3 and 102.3) and lay off all of them, even if it wasn't their fault, as the DJS were at a event, and not at the station. Who knows? Will the owner sue the FCC once August of next year comes, when the 2 simulcast stations licenses are up in the air?
 
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Jonathan7157 said:
Besides, I think WHYN will go full on Top 40 eventually, since Springfield is probably the biggest market without a Top 40 station, ahead of Tyler, TX and if Mix 93.1 flips to Mainstream Top 40, that will fill a major gap in the Springfield market. For now, the de facto Top 40 station in Spring field is WHYN's sister station, WKSS-FM/Kiss 95.7.

Last year, WMAS and WHYN-FM both played wall-to-wall Christmas music.


Stop reading my reply here, because this is about Tyler's reason of lacking a Top 40 station, not WHYN. Tyler just lost their only Top 40 station recently (4 months ago), after someone just laid off everybody for a simple AC issue that they could have fixed no problem, but the owner decided to use the AC problem to blame everyone who works at the Top 40 station there (95.3 and 102.3) and lay off all of them, even if it wasn't their fault, as the DJS were at a event, and not at the station. Who knows? Will the owner sue the FCC once August of next year comes, when the 2 simulcast stations licenses are up in the air?
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Are you referring to a problem with an Adult Contemporary format or with air conditioning??? If the latter, surely no owner would fire the staff AND change format just because the air conditioning wasn't set to his liking!
 
Food Lion supermarkets, based on what I was told after describing the music on another site, uses Muzak's Hot FM. I could ask for specifics, but whatever I heard today, it was all music about Christmas. As opposed to Christmas music. All the songs were AC, Hot AC or country and only some were the familiar songs. None were the most popular versions and some weren't songs I recognized at all but had "Christmas" in the lyrics. I've never heard a radio station that did this.
 
So far, my favorite holiday stations this year are (again) WQPW and KARY. But KQZB-100.5 Troy ID and KQBG-99.5 Rock Island/Wenatchee are also hot on the list this year, running unique Christmas formats with a lot of rarities and hard to find covers.
 
CTListener said:
Are you referring to a problem with an Adult Contemporary format or with air conditioning??? If the latter, surely no owner would fire the staff AND change format just because the air conditioning wasn't set to his liking!
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It was a she, but she did it anyways. What a way to disappoint not just the staff, but thousands of Tyler listeners to the former Top 40 station there (95.3/102.3).

That is definitely not a station "suicide", but instead, a radio station "murder" since she shut down the station and laid off everybody not just in the 2 station simulcast but the whole local parent company, and she even laid off the CEO of the owner that owns the 4 stations (2 per simulcast) in Tyler, TX, only because the AC was broken. You said no one could do it, but she did anways.

She didnt change the format, she shut the station down and next August, she may come under scrutiny by the FCC, when the licenses are in danger.
 
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"Now, more sounds of the season," says the female voice on KKOV Portland, airing America's Best Music.

"How Deep Is Your Love". Nice, but not holiday music. "We've Only Just Begun" preceded it. However, the kids and Vince Guaraldi were on before that.

By this time I would think there would be more Christmas music there.
 
That doesn't make sense...they must be using the wrong announcer spot. Either it's all-Christmas or it's not.

Christmas arrived in Watertown NY a few days ago (WTOJ-103.1).
 
vchimpanzee said:
... whatever I heard today, it was all music about Christmas. As opposed to Christmas music. All the songs were AC, Hot AC or country and only some were the familiar songs. None were the most popular versions and some weren't songs I recognized at all but had "Christmas" in the lyrics. I've never heard a radio station that did this.
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You know, I was about to make a thread about this kind of thing. It seems to me like there's starting to be this tendency among radio stations, store background music, satellite "radio", etc. to play "Christmas" songs that are not the traditional Christmas recordings we're used to, and to try to avoid playing those. So what's wrong with them all of a sudden? Do they "only sell to nursing homes and power-chair stores"? (Not the impression I got whenever I heard those "big-dollar" ads year after year, including last year). Do they suddenly not "test well" now? What?

Sorry if I ruffled any feathers, but I just had to vent.
 
crainbebo said:
That doesn't make sense...they must be using the wrong announcer spot. Either it's all-Christmas or it's not.

Christmas arrived in Watertown NY a few days ago (WTOJ-103.1).
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They just weren't paying attention. KKOV seems to be what people on this site call a jukebox in a closet.

As of today (possibly earlier, since I didn't try over the weekend) America's Best Music is all-Christmas.

And there's a new station ID which includes "Ho! Ho! Ho! America's Best Music!"
 
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Since Christmas is on Sunday this year, a good number of employers will observe Monday the 26th as a holiday. With that in mind, how many stations will stay all-Christmas that day?
 
Yes, a very sad day indeed. RIP George Michael.

Going back to holiday music in topic, as Christmas Day comes to a close, here's what I streamed the most this season:
#1 - WQPW. I am still very impressed with their holiday format, which has a wide playlist. R&B, Country, pop, big band, jazz all shown here. They even air some remixes of the classics.
#2 - KQZB. Another impressive playlist from a small station in Moscow, ID. For the first time, I heard Paul Simon's "Gettin' Ready for Christmas" this year. Great song which uses parts of a 1941 sermon by the Rev. J.M. Gates. Lots of other rarities including a bit of R&B, which is very interesting - there is little, if any, African-American population nearby.
#3 - KKRB, a few days before Xmas were all-Holiday, again loads of rarities while keeping All I Want for Xmas is You, Bing Crosby's White Christmas and Trans-Siberian Orchestra to a minimum.
#4 - WNWV had the 48 Hours of Christmas 12/24 and 12/25. Great mix of smooth jazz/vocal Christmas music. I heard Bobby Caldwell, Al Jarreau "Gloria" with a gospel choir, Dave Koz, even Ottmar Liebert. No Kenny G in the hours I sampled. Some Mannheim Steamroller, etc. mixed in, but it usually fit the format. Way to go 107.3 Smooth FM Cleveland!
 
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The day after Christmas is not a holiday in radio.
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I just turned on America's Best Music and it has stopped playing Christmas music. This just isn't right!

Good Time Oldies was still playing mostly regular music on Friday when I finally checked. The affiliate was airing a special program Saturday morning and the Carolina Panthers on Saturday afternoon, so I don't know about then. I did have a chance to sample the station yesterday but when I got home I forgot all about it.
 
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