As of this morning, WGHQ’s new “Magic 92.5/920” is the first station to go all-Christmas, beginning with Jim Brickman’s radio special “The Gift of Christmas”. This is the first time that WGHQ goes all-Christmas, and then later, WGNY-FM’s “Fox Oldies” goes all-Christmas beginning at 12PM running through tomorrow night, Christmas night including three classic radio broadcasts of “Miracle on 34th Street”, “It’s A Wonderful Life” both from the “Lux Radio Theater”, and “A Christmas Carol” as heard on the “Mercury Theater of the Air” produced by Orson Welles with Lionel Barrymore and Ebenezer Scrooge, and it’s going to be all-Christmas music for 30 hours. And finally, WBPM goes all-Christmas as of 6AM this morning, the same time that WGHQ’s “Magic 92.5/920” also went all-Christmas and runs right into tomorrow, along with the “Celebration of the Season” show with Randy Turnip as the host with nothing but novelty Christmas songs.
Now we covered all of the Christmas formats that I just updated. During the past two months, every station went all-Christmas including WKXP’s “Lite-FM” at 94.3, WRNQ’s “Q92”, WHUD, WGNY-FM’s “Fox Oldies”, WBPM, and WGHQ’s new “Magic 92.5/920” in the Hudson Valley, along with WYJB’s “B95.5”, WTRY’s “98.3 TRY”, and WROW’s “Magic 590/100.5” in Albany, NY, and of course WLTW’s “Lite-FM” at 106.7 in NYC where it has been running all-Christmas since November 19th. And guess what, we just completed the all-Christmas, and it is going to be a race to see how long is going are the station running Christmas music going to last. Are they’re going to win the battle? Find out soon.