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B101 is Philly's Christmas Station, but not on the Radio!

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I don't want the christmas to start so early, but they put on their website that they are Philadelphia's Christmas Station, but they are not playing christmas.

I have to give props to Jerry Lee, though. At least he is marketing them as a "Christmas" station and not that crappy "holiday music" name that a lot of stations use to be politically correct.
 
As if people can't genuinely prefer to use the "h" word for any number of reasons. Much easier, instead, to level unfounded attacks.
 
The station plays Christmas music 24/7 and should use the word "Christmas" in its imaging. IOW, there's only one holiday whose music the station plays, so why pretend differently?

This is different than a retail store using "Holiday" because it wants Jewish people to buy Hanukkah gifts there. That makes perfect sense. This is different. It's a Christmas station because it plays nothing but Christmas music. As a Jew, I won't be listening, but I'll be happy they're not pretending that they care.
 
Wait a second - B101 is the only Christmas/holiday station in the universe that does not play any of Adam Sandler's "Chanukah Songs"? :eek: Say it ain't so!

Then again, Dan Fogelberg's "Another Auld Lang Syne" isn't necessarily a "Christmas" song, either.
 
If they do play Adam Sandler, I'm betting it's once every three hours. Which means the average hour on B-101 in December is 42 minutes of Christmas music, 2 minutes of Hanukkah music, and 16 minutes of commercials. As a Jew, why would I ever listen to that? Which makes me wonder why they bother with the Hanukkah song(s).
 
DToTheJ said:
Then again, Dan Fogelberg's "Another Auld Lang Syne" isn't necessarily a "Christmas" song, either.
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Any number of the seasonal songs aren't explicitly "Christmas." (Not to mention something like "We Need a Little Christmas," which in context, is performed wel outside of Christmas.)

As to the Sandler song, they have played it every year, so there'd be no reason to believe this year would be any different.
 
Are we really going to pretend songs like Jingle Bells aren't Christmas songs? Let's be real.

We Jews aren't listening to the Christmas stations. We're OK with it, the stations are OK with it. So why the bone-throwing with the Adam Sandler stuff? We're not around to hear it. We'll be back in January.
 
One person doesn't speak for an entire group. I know many Jewish individuals who continue to listen and profess enjoyment for the music. In some cases, it is more enjoyment for the generic winter music, and in other cases, just for the music in general.

Not everyone follows a particular line of thinking or behavior just because they're lumped into an arbitrary bucket.
 
Didn't some Jewish guy write the words to "White Christmas"?

And let's not discount Barbra Streisand who has done a Christmas LP or two...
 
Then again, Dan Fogelberg's "Another Auld Lang Syne" isn't necessarily a "Christmas" song, either.
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i heard them play that once during the summer and i thought this is a christmas song and it was while i was scanning the radio dial
 
Didn't some Jewish guy write the words to "White Christmas"?

And let's not discount Barbra Streisand who has done a Christmas LP or two...
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Mmm Hmmm. But if a Gentile recorded, copyrighted and profited from a Jewish LP or two it would be seen as Anti-Semetic. Amazing how that works.
 
I'm sure many Jewish people listen to Christmas music, but if they like hearing this format my guess is they aren't the type of people who get offended by the station calling itself Christmas Station. Fact is 99% of what b plays is Christmas music, so why not call it that? I doubt any Jewish people listen for the occasional Adam Sandler song, and frankly just about every radio station in this market has 1 or 2 songs in their playlist that doesn't fit the format. Yet that doesn't stop them from iding themselves as that format.
 
Jefferson Lee Eng said:
Didn't some Jewish guy write the words to "White Christmas"?

And let's not discount Barbra Streisand who has done a Christmas LP or two...
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Supplying Christmas music is not the same as demanding Christmas music.
 
B 101 is smart the way they promote their Christmas programming. They own the position in Philly and all the stuff going on now...music survey, date to begin, and on line stream only goes to help solidify it. And even though a competitor WILL BE flipping to Christmas the day before Thanksgiving (and no..I don't mean stations in Allentown or Wilmington), The B will own the position and the monster ratings that come with it.
 
aindik said:
Are we really going to pretend songs like Jingle Bells aren't Christmas songs? Let's be real.
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While we're at it, let's throw The Beatles' "She's A Woman" into the equation ("My love don't give me presents")... ::)
 
Radio Wreck said:
Didn't some Jewish guy write the words to "White Christmas"?

And let's not discount Barbra Streisand who has done a Christmas LP or two...
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Mmm Hmmm. But if a Gentile recorded, copyrighted and profited from a Jewish LP or two it would be seen as Anti-Semetic. Amazing how that works.
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Barenaked Ladies released "Barenaked for the Holidays" that had some goys doing Hanukkah songs...and I don't recall my rabbi or the congregation saying bupkius about it.

But hopefully Mix can give B101 a run for the holiday money. I did like it when WOGL was Philly's "Chirstmas Classics Station"...and I'm a Jew to boot!
 
I don't care if people use "Christmas", "holiday", or any other term to refer to this season or the music associated with it. I find the whole argument to be silly. And I don't think that the massive airplay for "The Chanukah Song" is pandering to Jewish people. Stations play that song at this time of year because the audience wants to hear it, plain and simple. I personally could probably go at least five years without hearing that song again, but there's no denying its mass appeal.
 
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