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Christmas Music

CTListener said:
No hints yet from holiday perennials WRCH and WMAS, but the first item in the WMAS website's slide show is about the station's Christmas tree, which I assume is some sort of do-gooder promotion.
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WRCH doesn't usually flip until Thanksgiving Day. Usually at 3PM. Once at Noon. And once several year back they flipped the week of Thanksgiving because Thanksgiving was late that year like it is this year.

WMAS does a contest at Christmas time where listeners can get their prize from underneath their "94 Foot" Christmas tree.
 
I mentioned this in the WRCH Christmas thread over on the Connecticut board, but you can add 97.5 WALK Patchogue, NY, to Santa's list of good little boys, girls and signals. It flipped either Monday or Tuesday and puts a nice signal into much of southern and even south central Connecticut. That leaves only the Cape stations and WMAS in the "let's wait a little longer" category, I think, unless a surprise first-time flipper is lurking in the weeds.
 
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An interesting decision Upper Valley way -- WFYX Walpole, NH, and the translators in Woodstock, Vt. and Keene, N.H., which have gone all Christmas the past few years, will be staying oldies this year. The Great Eastern Radio stations are airing an announcement telling listeners to use the Great Eastern Radio app to stream their holiday favorites 24/7 right through Christmas day. I believe that there's an established AC Christmas station up that way, so Great Eastern probably wasn't doing well competing for listeners or advertising.
 
CTListener said:
An interesting decision Upper Valley way -- WFYX Walpole, NH, and the translators in Woodstock, Vt. and Keene, N.H., which have gone all Christmas the past few years, will be staying oldies this year. The Great Eastern Radio stations are airing an announcement telling listeners to use the Great Eastern Radio app to stream their holiday favorites 24/7 right through Christmas day. I believe that there's an established AC Christmas station up that way, so Great Eastern probably wasn't doing well competing for listeners or advertising.
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WJJR Rutland, VT is the established Christmas station for the entire area stretching from Glens Falls, NY to New London, NH, including much of southern and central Vermont.
 
Tomgsinger said:
WJJR Rutland, VT is the established Christmas station for the entire area stretching from Glens Falls, NY to New London, NH, including much of southern and central Vermont.
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Come to think of it, I believe the Great Eastern Christmas format had a presenting sponsor, West Lebanon Feed and Supply, so it could be that the business decided not to be the sponsor again this year, leaving Great Eastern with little reason to keep butting heads with WJJR for a month playing the same music.
 
freqlost said:
Has MJX or anyone else played Baby It's Cold Outside or has that song been placed in Supermax ?
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Just checked the WMJX playlist since midnight and no sign of "Baby It's Cold Outside." Looks like the song triggered enough people to warrant removal from the playlist.
 
jlehmann said:
WZID is saying that it's only for the weekend, as they've done in the past
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They did also say that they'll be playing a little bit of Christmas music during the weekday as well.
 
CTListener said:
Just checked the WMJX playlist since midnight and no sign of "Baby It's Cold Outside." Looks like the song triggered enough people to warrant removal from the playlist.
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I'm not surprised.
 
I've actually heard Bob Bittner/WJIB play "Baby It's Cold Outside" not even during the Christmas season. Did you ever notice that the lyrics say absolutely nothing to do with Christmas??
 
Well, there is another thread someplace else that deals with Christmas songs that have nothing to do with Christmas. But I think if a song is so identified with the holidays (Kenny Loggins "Celebrate Me Home", Vince Guaraldi "Linus & Lucy") it should only play during the holidays. Certainly "Baby It's Cold Outside" fits that catagory.

And John Legend has a new version of the song that is more Me-Too aware. I've been hearing that as often as the many versions based on the original lyrics.
 
ssetta said:
I've actually heard Bob Bittner/WJIB play "Baby It's Cold Outside" not even during the Christmas season. Did you ever notice that the lyrics say absolutely nothing to do with Christmas??
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I don't think it became a fixture on Christmas playlists until after it had been featured in the Christmas comedy "Elf" as a Will Ferrell/Zooey Deschanel duet.
 
I’ve noticed that we have our usual all-Christmas music stations, it seems like other stations are playing no Christmas music whatsoever. Not even WROR. I’m pretty sure they always sprinkled some Christmas tunes in. However, Easy 99.1 is playing a fair amount, and I think they’ll probably increase as it gets closer to Christmas. I know they used to have the 12 days of Christmas, and I actually think they were the first station to go all Christmas. I think WXLO has been playing a few Christmas tunes as well, and I heard one on MyFM 101.3, and of course WJIB has been playing quite a few. Does anyone know any others?
 
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