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Christmas On WRVR

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Jazz_Kat

Looks like WRVR in Memphis has switched to an all Christmas format. I didn't know that until earlier tonight. Is soft rock doing good there in the area?
 
They've been doing that for YEARS! I was with them in the early 90's and that's when I first remember them starting Christmas Music the Wednesday of Thanksgiving week. As the tradition continued, they seem to make it earlier and earlier all the time.

Trust me, as a jock on the air there...it made the Christmas Holiday Season....Loooooooooooong!!!!!
 
I too have interesting memories of the "All Christmas" format. Building the Selector Database, for an INSTANT switchover, in case a competitor wished to get there first. Something that was slated to happen on WMC in 2006, until Entercom bought them up. That would have been interesting...

I remember when it was just at night on the station, when I first started. There was also a long standing policy at the time that banned the playing of "Grandma got run over by a reindeer". That policy got vanquished by 2002, by the ridiculous listener demand for it.

I remember the first year it went all Christmas, there were emails posted on the studio door praising the move, and a couple of "Scrooges" letters were posted too...
Anybody remember the "Christmas in Memphis" track recorded for the station in 1998, with Jim Brickman, Clay Cross, Ann Cochran, etc.? I think I still have a copy of that one somewhere, from the burned CD copies that were released, when burned CD's were a new thing... 12 years ago, REALLY?!!

Pam Yates would always decorate the studio with the most Christmas cheer allowed by law, every year!

Good Times, with a repetitive soundtrack...
 
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