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Christmas comes early!

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It is only November, but on the Charlotte radio dial it sounds more like December. That is because two local radio stations are spinning all-Christmas music this weekend.

This is New Life 91.9's second We Can't Wait For Christmas Weekend. The first was last week. Across town K104.7 has jumped on the bandwagon with it's New Christmas Preview Weekend. The surprising thing is that Lite 102.9 hasn't joined the party. As of Friday night the station was still playing it's normal rotation of AC tunes.

New Life 91.9 and K104.7 will return to their normal playlist on Monday. New Life 91.9 will begin playing all-Christmas music non-stop on November 28th.
 
Tower Hunters said:
The first was last week. Across town K104.7 has jumped on the bandwagon with it's New Christmas Preview Weekend. The surprising thing is that Lite 102.9 hasn't joined the party. As of Friday night the station was still playing it's normal rotation of AC tunes.
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A shocker about Lite indeed. For the last couple of years, these two stations have followed each other's moves extremely closely with regards to Christmas music. I just checked in to Lite at the top of the hour to see if they would start it at midnight, but they did not. They played a jingle and then "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)." I don't know why they wouldn't want to start now with Christmas music to keep up with "Christmas K."

Do you think they would actually let K have the Christmas music to themselves this year? I would be extremely surprised if this is what Lite has in store.
 
Re: Christmas comes early! / Christmas K-104.7

Christmas K 104.7 never fails to disappoint. As we brought down the first box of Christmas decorations from the attic this past weekend (we didn't put them up yet ;D), I streamed K-104.7 on the computer. Since we don't get all Christmas on the radio here in the NYC metro, it's always great to hear songs like "Happy Holiday" from Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme and Alabama's "Christmas in Dixie" from K-104.7. My relatives in Charlotte always choose Christmas K over Lite. Last year, I put on Lite 102.9 before Thanksgiving dinner, and someone said, "Don't put them on. They don't play the good songs. Put on 104.7."

My one wish is that someone over there at WKQC would unearth the amazing Christmas jingles the station used up until last year (or maybe the year before). They had some great jingles from JAM's "Holiday Pack" ("Merry Christmas" and "Happy Holidays") and some funky WABC re-sings (the "Seasons Greetings" one, the "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" one and the "Jingle Bells" jingle as well). Hearing that same donut every time gets old fast. And it's only the first weekend. I'm more tired of the jingles than I am of the Eurythmics' "Winter Wonderland." :)

Also, I noticed that CBS Radio's WODS/Oldies 103.3 in Boston (also playing all Christmas music) upgraded their stream to what sounds like a 128Kbps stream. It sounds SPECTACULAR, and I hope that other CBS Radio stations across the country can offer this as the "Broadband" option stream as well. The WODS stream sounds better than listening to FM radio and is obviously clearer than WKQC's 64Kpbs.
 
Re: Christmas comes early! / Christmas K-104.7

I got lucky. When I finished my tape of Fox's animated shows, I turned on the radio at just the right time to hear "Home for the Holidays" by Perry Como. Then there was a commercial break. On the big stations, this is a very bad thing.

If it was all like that, I could listen to nothing but Christmas music from now until the day.

"Here We Come A-Wassailin'" is, I believe, the name of the New Christy Minstrels song that changed my mind on the subject a few years ago.

The last thing I want, though, is to hear anything by anyone who was not on the charts prior to 1960. I consider "Jingle Bell Rock" and "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" to be cutting edge and I want that Paul McCartney song buried in a secure dump.

Based on the last few years, my pop standards station should go all-Christmas on Thanksgiving. My country station will wait until it's really time, though they'll have a few Christmas tunes sprinkled in.
 
K104.7 and Lite 102.9 have been taken over by Santa and now in Christmas music mode.
 
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