94.9 has flipped.
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106.5 WBMW is the only usual suspect in Connecticut for making the Christmas switch this early. How early they will flip this year is anyone's guess.
True. I was referring to the "usual suspects" for playing holiday music, period, not just those who have a record of flipping early. WRCH is usually among the last to flip, despite pretty much owning Christmas in Hartford/New Haven for decades. A flip today, or over the weekend, would be a big surprise, for sure.
Yup, according to their website, the first Christmas song was at 506pm with Andy Williams and It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year. The last regular song before the flip was Can't Stop The Feeling/Feel Good Friday.
They do run Delilah from 7pm to midnight and WSRS's website does show the Christmas music continuing during that period.
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WRCH owns Christmas in central CT (though I still tune in WMAS from Springfield as well) and has songs like Santa Must Be Polish by Bobby Vinton and Aspenglow by John Denver in its library. Those two I don't recall ever hearing on any other FM radio station. WRCH has also played the original version of You Make It Feel Like Christmas by Neil Diamond in the past. WMAS doesn't play that one, but does play Cherry Cherry Christmas.
94.7 WMAS started playing Candy Cane Lane by Sia in 2018 and then WRCH followed suit last year. It's a great song- she used the Phil Spector "Wall of Sound" technique when recording it. Kind of like how Kelly Clarkson did with "Underneath the Tree."
"Chri$tma$ has two s' s in it and they're both
dollar signs"-- Stan Freberg (..60 years ago)
Some songs out there are winter songs and could fit in after Christmas--songs about cold and snow etc.
In the Netflix movie Hubie Halloween, there's a fictional station at 101.9 in Salem (Shaq O'Neal as a DJ I believe) which seems to take
the Oct scary season to heart.
This year is bizarro world --due to the virus
the mayor of Salem waa advising tourists to stay away! Or at least visit another time (or
maybe mid week, to keep crowds down)
dollar signs"-- Stan Freberg (..60 years ago)
Some songs out there are winter songs and could fit in after Christmas--songs about cold and snow etc.
In the Netflix movie Hubie Halloween, there's a fictional station at 101.9 in Salem (Shaq O'Neal as a DJ I believe) which seems to take
the Oct scary season to heart.
This year is bizarro world --due to the virus
the mayor of Salem waa advising tourists to stay away! Or at least visit another time (or
maybe mid week, to keep crowds down)
Google turns up plenty of lists, all of which -- at least on the first two pages of results -- have "White Christmas" at No. 1. Apparently, there's a single in China that came out just this year that has already sold 41.7 million digital downloads, so that song may well pass Bing in short order, if it hasn't already. Bing's tally is a nice round 50 million, according to most of the websites.
I did some research too. While "White Christmas"-Bing Cosby is the single biggest song of all time, it predates the music charts.
The second biggest selling charted song of all time is "Candle In The Wind ''97/Way You Look Tonight" is the best selling charting single of all time, according to Wikipedia.
https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki...ecords named,before music charts were created.
The second biggest selling charted song of all time is "Candle In The Wind ''97/Way You Look Tonight" is the best selling charting single of all time, according to Wikipedia.
https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki...ecords named,before music charts were created.
Wikipedia should never be the first source you quote. Yes, the info there is supported by other websites, but one of the huge problems with info found on the internet is that no one knows for sure where it originated and how authoritative that original source was.
Other articles have collaborated this information too, but if you have credibility issues with what I found, then I not only encourage, but I insist that you prove me otherwise!
Not trying to pick a fight. I'm looking at the same articles. Google works the same for me as it does for you. In this case, Wiki is most likely right. I just don't like to see it cited as the primary source because it can be edited so quickly and effectively by people who, even if they have no malicious intent, may not know what they're talking about. I had an editor who would blow his stack at any subordinate who dared say "Wikipedia says ..." or "I saw on the internet that ..." when he'd ask them about certain details of a story. I learned my lesson very quickly!
OK, fair enough, my bad!
Last year WMJX went all Christmas on Nov 22.
It had been announced that year on that site.
If they were to launch on a Fri that could
mean something like Nov 20 or 27 (latter is day after Thanksgiving).
WBOQ changed over a week ago.
It had been announced that year on that site.
If they were to launch on a Fri that could
mean something like Nov 20 or 27 (latter is day after Thanksgiving).
WBOQ changed over a week ago.
The one Christmas song I simply can't stand is The Christmas Shoes by NewSong. Any station which doesn't have that one in their regular rotation is a winner in my book!
WMJX facebook
Karen Blake:
"Well we now have an EXACT DATE...CHRISTMAS MUSIC BEGINS THIS FRIDAY...AND “MORNING MAGIC” WILL KICK IT OFF AT 6AM. MY QUESTON TODAY...”ARE YOU EXCITED” Tell your friends! Spread the word!"
Also radio.com is now carrying Beasley stations (MJX used to be one)
Karen Blake:
"Well we now have an EXACT DATE...CHRISTMAS MUSIC BEGINS THIS FRIDAY...AND “MORNING MAGIC” WILL KICK IT OFF AT 6AM. MY QUESTON TODAY...”ARE YOU EXCITED” Tell your friends! Spread the word!"
Also radio.com is now carrying Beasley stations (MJX used to be one)
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