Let's have a little fun, WLTW in New York City will flip to Christmas music later on this week. So let's guess what the first Christmas song and artist that they will play first when they make the flip to Christmas music. Here is the countdown clock https://litefm.iheart.com/flip-the-switch/?2019 , and Cubby and Christine are taking part in the flip. Anytime until the Christmas count hits zero for days, hours and seconds.
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Guess what Christmas song that WLTW will play first
- Thread starter staggmovie
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If I was programming in New York, it would be "Silver Bells" every year.
"It's Christmas time in the city"
"It's Christmas time in the city"
My vote is for The Christmas Song. Mel Torme was the consummate New Yorker, singing about "chestnuts roasting on an open fire," which one can see every year in New York. The original version of this song was recorded by Nat King Cole in New York City. Nat's only stereo version was recorded in NYC.
How about "Joy to the World," which always kicked off WPIX-TV's Yule Log?
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it's such an "opposite" song to 'LTW's normal format that it might be the one!
A more important question is, what will be the last one that they play be so that everyone can breath a sigh of relief.
Aren;'t you just a party pooper, I am sure nobody is thinking about that other then you and they won't be for a while until after Christmas which I don't now if the plan will be on the 26th of December or if they are going to run them for a few more days.
"Fairytale of New York" by the Pogues would be my choice if I ran a NYC station playing Christmas music. It's got the city in the title, mentions the NYPD choir and everything. Only issue is the couple lines of unsavory lyrics, which is why there's no chance whatsoever that Lite would play it.
And yet it is a Christmas perennial in the UK, even on the staid old BBC. Oh, and the NYPD has no choir. That's why there's a band shown in the video for the song. And even they weren't playing "Galway Bay."
But that song has to do with Christmas! Surely a worldly city like New York prefers its holiday music shorn of all religious references, doesn't it? I think they'll flip with Long Island's own Mariah Carey's perennial holiday screamer "All I Want For Christmas Is You."
the video with Bieber was shot at the 34th street Macy's, part of his album launch promotion.
Stations should not be breaking format just for some occasional holidays,
If they want to play holiday music, let them just change their format to something like K-Love and they can play it year-long.
Bah Humbug!
It's not really about the holiday. It's about the commerce that accompanies it. Remember, music of any genre is just something for commercial radio stations to play between the revenue-producing ads. This genre happens to get a large number of people -- many of whom make AC stations their top choice anyway -- thinking about family, friends and .... spending lots and lots of money. But it will only do so in November and December. The credit cards are maxed out or nearly so right through the winter, and when the weather gets warmer, the spending is done on warm-weather things, like vacations, home improvements and refreshing beverages. "Winter Wonderland" would only conflict with the advertisers' intended message.
Andy William's It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year. Can't argue about that!
It's not "breaking format" if playing Christmas music is what your listeners actually want at that time of the year.
An interesting coincidence that makes it easy to forecast, just like April Fools Day!
The "keep Christ in Christmas" anti-"Happy Holidays" crowd will certainly argue, loudly and strongly.
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