For Some Listeners, The Long National Nightmare Is Over

[Joseph_Gallant]

For those who find that a month or more of all-Christmas radio formats represents overkill, The Long National Nightmare is ending.

According to playlists posted on Yes.com, a number of radio stations in the Eastern time zone that have gone all-Christmas went back to their regular formats around 12 Midnight EST December 25th (the beginning of December 26th).

A few were still all-Christmas, but chances are many of those will go back to the regular formats later this morning (December 26th).

One interesting note from looking at some playlists as posted on Yes.com is that New York's WLTW-106.7, while going back to it's regular Soft AC format at Midnight, still played a couple of Christmas songs in the 45 minutes after Christmas Day ended.

 

[radiolover78]

> For those who find that a month or more of all-Christmas
> radio formats represents overkill, The Long National
> Nightmare is ending.
>
> According to playlists posted on Yes.com, a number of radio
> stations in the Eastern time zone that have gone
> all-Christmas went back to their regular formats around 12
> Midnight EST December 25th (the beginning of December 26th).
>
>
> A few were still all-Christmas, but chances are many of
> those will go back to the regular formats later this morning
> (December 26th).
>
> One interesting note from looking at some playlists as
> posted on Yes.com is that New York's WLTW-106.7, while going
> back to it's regular Soft AC format at Midnight, still
> played a couple of Christmas songs in the 45 minutes after
> Christmas Day ended.
>

Some stations will be doing the all Christmas format through today, mostly Clear Channel stations. A major one is WSNI-Philadelphia. I'm sure most stations will be back to normal tomorrow. Some stations play a few holiday tunes the last week of December sometimes, mixed with the regular format.<P ID="signature">______________
Happy Holidays</P>

 

[westlife]

> One interesting note from looking at some playlists as
> posted on Yes.com is that New York's WLTW-106.7, while going
> back to it's regular Soft AC format at Midnight, still
> played a couple of Christmas songs in the 45 minutes after
> Christmas Day ended.

WLTW is still playing "holiday" (non-Christmas-specific) songs, mixed in with its normal AC playlist. This afternoon I heard "It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" by Amy Grant.
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