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Christmas countdown/specials on radio?

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Besides the Sunny 104.5 and B101.1 Christmas music, are any other stations having Christmas specials? I know WJBR in Wilmington always has it's 36 hour Christmas Festival of Music and WSTW usually has Christmas Eve music. Are there any other stations advertising specials or countdowns. I remember one local station used to have a syndicated program with little vignettes about the background of various Christmas songs.

I still miss Earle Bailey's History of Rock and Christmas morning shows on WMMR. He always put together such a great show!
 
Wilmington's WILM newsradio will be airing Christmas music starting on Christmas Eve.

> other stations having Christmas specials? I know WJBR in
> Wilmington always has it's 36 hour Christmas Festival of
> Music and WSTW usually has Christmas Eve music. Are there
> any other stations advertising specials or countdowns. I
> remember one local station used to have a syndicated program
> with little vignettes about the background of various
> Christmas songs.
>
> I still miss Earle Bailey's History of Rock and Christmas
> morning shows on WMMR. He always put together such a great
> show!
>
 
> Besides the Sunny 104.5 and B101.1 Christmas music, are any
> other stations having Christmas specials? I know WJBR in
> Wilmington always has it's 36 hour Christmas Festival of
> Music and WSTW usually has Christmas Eve music. Are there
> any other stations advertising specials or countdowns. I
> remember one local station used to have a syndicated program
> with little vignettes about the background of various
> Christmas songs.
>
> I still miss Earle Bailey's History of Rock and Christmas
> morning shows on WMMR. He always put together such a great
> show!
>
WOGL 98.1 will have 36 hours of Commerical free Christmas must starting at 6:00 pm on Saturday and going until Midnight Sunday.
 
An update on WILM's Christmas programming. I found out that WILM's Christmas music will be completely different than in past years. It will include Manheim Steamroller and all sorts of various artists plus various Christmas stories. I'm not sure if this is being locally produced or some satellite Christmas program, but it does sound interesting.

> A few years ago I remember Tearson doing a show of holiday
> rock 'n' roll novelty stuff on WMGK Christmas Eve...
>
 
As assistant PD at WILM in the mid-nineties, I was involved in the Christmas programming. We had these ancient reels of holiday music and shows in boxes stowed away in the office I shared with John Watson. One year, a certain reporter (who shall remain nameless) was looking for some spare tape (it was always in short supply), came across the box of reels in my office and you can guess the rest. Oops! (OK, not her fault really - the reels weren't very well labeled...)
 
Following the game, tonight WDEL will bradcast the annual trip by Santa from the North Pole. Bob Mercer keeps that program carefully labeled and hidden away! WDEL also usually airs Holiday music Christmas Eve.

> Wilmington's WILM newsradio will be airing Christmas music
> starting on Christmas Eve.
>
> > other stations having Christmas specials? I know WJBR in
> > Wilmington always has it's 36 hour Christmas Festival of
> > Music and WSTW usually has Christmas Eve music. Are there
>
> > any other stations advertising specials or countdowns. I
> > remember one local station used to have a syndicated
> program
> > with little vignettes about the background of various
> > Christmas songs.
> >
> > I still miss Earle Bailey's History of Rock and Christmas
> > morning shows on WMMR. He always put together such a
> great
> > show!
> >
>
 
The Festival of Christmas is on WRDV (and wrdv.org) from 6:00 PM
on December 24th to 1:00 AM on December 26th.

No commercials, no dj's (but NOT automated, except from 2 to 7 am) and nothing but Christmas music from all genres -- Big Band, Oldies, Country, Acappella, Religious, and so on, and so on, and so on.

Bill
 
"An American Christmas" radio special

The Christmas Special that I mentioned earlier for WILM is a national program. I found the web site. It is Mannheim Steamroller's "An American Christmas" It is a 12 hour radio special, that started at 6pm Christmas Eve, airing on I counted 112 stations including a station on Guam plus Armed Forces Radio overseas. The stations in the tri-state area airing this radio special include:
WILM Wilmington, WDOV Dover, DE, WNTP/WFIL both in Philly, WBAL Baltimore and WHP Harrisburg. I listened for several hours tonight and when they referred to the program being heard coast to coast I decided to do a bit of web surfing. It is a refreshing change from what WILM used to air on Christmas. I don't know if it will be repeated tomorrow on WILM, but it's worth a listen.

> The Festival of Christmas is on WRDV (and wrdv.org) from
> 6:00 PM
> on December 24th to 1:00 AM on December 26th.
>
> No commercials, no dj's (but NOT automated, except from 2
> to 7 am) and nothing but Christmas music from all genres --
> Big Band, Oldies, Country, Acappella, Religious, and so on,
> and so on, and so on.
>
> Bill
>
 
Best Christmas Eve programming - WMGK

I think Michael Tearson had the best Christmas Eve programming on Saturday night. He was cleary picking most of the music, which included oddities from Lord Buckley, The Roahces, and an unreleased Jackson Browne live track. It was refreshing to hear a live perosn on the air instead of automation. Plus, I haven't heard Tearson sound this enthusiastic since he was doing Guerrilla Theatre on WMMR.
 
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