Happy Thanksgiving!

[junebaby62]

Just wanna take the time to wish everyone here in nashville radio land a safe and happy Thanksgiving. Everyone on this message board seem like real good people, and I really enjoy talking "nashville radio" with you. God bless you all!

 

[roadrunner]

Happy TGiving to everyone! I'm "thankful" for Jack-FM -- Not thankful for Mix 92-9 going all Christmas.
Not ready for anything Christmas yet!

 

[SwissVol]

How many times has 92.9 played "Tender Tennessee Christmas"? Shouldn't there be some kind of warning system so people will not toss their cookies

Seriously, Happy Thanksgiving.

 

[scottwmro]

I got in the car, leaving the house to run up the store, and sure enough, Mix 92.9 was playing Frosty the Snowman by the Beach Boys, UGGGGGGGG! I removed them from the pre-set and put in 102.9. I'm not a fan of The Buzz, but it beats the Old, Worn Out Christmas Crap. Oh, where is my Ted Nugent CD?

I know ya got to do what makes money, but the FM is starting to sound like AM did in the late 70's/early 80's!

You just wait, Mix 92.9 in the winter book will slide some in the winter book. You can change to a "holiday format" and try to bounce back one month later, after you have ran off the target demo.

 

[romer979fm]

You just wait, Mix 92.9 in the winter book will slide some in the winter book. You can change to a "holiday format" and try to bounce back one month later, after you have ran off the target demo.

I'm guessing they wouldn't go all-Christmas every year if the numbers tanked...
doesn't make any sense, does it?

 

[yorkie9]

I got in the car, leaving the house to run up the store, and sure enough, Mix 92.9 was playing Frosty the Snowman by the Beach Boys, UGGGGGGGG!

You turned to 92.9 and not Romer on 97.9 this morning? No Beach Boys there, thank goodness!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!

 

[Tibbs4]

The Winter ratings don't tank. It's positive on all sides. That may change in the years ahead, maybe even this year, but
the track record is pretty strong. Maybe all AC's should flip during warm weather since that's when they traditionally
take the hit. One off subject note though, it's kind of interesting that the usual Mix AC format/ playlist is kept so tight and
conservative, yet basically for about 30 days there is a complete flip of format. Seems like maybe the programming icons
of Barbara and Bryan could take this opportunity to "Freshen" it up with some brighter music with some AC/DC and
Nugent for Scott when he reprograms on Dec 26th at 12:01 AM.

Happy Thanksgiving...even to Crumulus.

 

[olebud]

lt could have been I had too much turkey, but I swear when I walked out in my front yard this afternoon, I heard, --- north of me from the direction of Gallatin --- Scottwmro yelling......"okay, okay, MERRY CHRISTMAS dad gum it." of course it had a lot more four letter words in it.
Remember Scott, Santa Clause is watching you. ;D

 

[scottwmro]

lt could have been I had too much turkey, but I swear when I walked out in my front yard this afternoon, I heard, --- north of me from the direction of Gallatin --- Scottwmro yelling......"okay, okay, MERRY CHRISTMAS dad gum it." of course it had a lot more four letter words in it.
Remember Scott, Santa Clause is watching you. ;D

Shame Shame, You cheated on your diet today! Oh well, I did too!

I try not to use any little four letter, nasty words, I have children around. Oh Buddy, I least I got my favorite part of the turkey today, a southern fired drumstick!

I'm not a fan of AC/DC, I was listening to "The Who" today. All the stuff the stations were playing today (including mine) bored me, so "The Who's" Won't get fooled again was the song of the day in my mp3 player......Merry Christmas, we'll be stuck with the same ole boss in 08. ;D

 

[firepoint525]

Lightning 100 got in their usual airing of "Alice's Restaurant" last night. They were so late with it, I thought they were going to skip it this year! Maybe they got a call from an irate listener.

 

[SwissVol]

Lightning 100 got in their usual airing of "Alice's Restaurant" last night. They were so late with it, I thought they were going to skip it this year! Maybe they got a call from an irate listener.

Now that Alice's restaurant song is a cool Holiday song. Funny to boot! I'm guessing that 92.9 will not play any holiday music that could not be served up with cinnamon and sugar cookies with a good glass of delicious eggnog. No spiked eggnog mind yah. We must then go on the lovely sleigh ride over the river and through the woods to Gramma's house yanno.

That song is just so funny. I did a google search on this song once about the history of this song. Turns out there realy was an officer Obie . LOL

 

[SwissVol]

Ok, I actually inserted a few Christmas tunes into my ipod playlists. They were cool Christmas songs though. John and Yoko's: So this is Christmas The Kinks: Father Christmas and Chuck Berry's: Run run Rudoph, but NO Tender Tennessee Christmas. LOL

 

[firepoint525]

Since this topic got pulled up again, I will just say that I got to hear Adam Sandler's hilarious Thanksgiving turkey song a couple of times over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. I would much rather hear that than "Alice's Restaurant" (it's MUCH funnier than "Alice's Restaurant"!), and I much prefer hearing it over the gazillionth airing of "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"! :

 

[SwissVol]

Ok, make it Merry Christmas instead of Happy Thanksgiving. While out looking for some fast food place last evening, I noticed most stations had gone into full Christmas mode. 92.9 started just after the 4th of July and The Fish started after Labor day I think. Say what you will about the [email protected], at least I did not hear Burl Ive's Holly Jolly Christmas on the Pebble. I head White Snake I think it was. Just think everyone, it wil be almost 1 whole year before we hear "Tender Tennessee Christmas" or Holly Jolly Christmas. With as much sarcasm as I can muster here: "WHAT- A- SHAME.

I do like some Christmas tunes though. I have my favorites as I pointed out so do not put me down as a total Scrooge just yet. Anyway, Merry Christmas to all!!!

 

[firepoint525]

Merry Christmas! (subject line changed to make it holiday appropriate!)

Ok, make it Merry Christmas instead of Happy Thanksgiving. While out looking for some fast food place last evening, I noticed most stations had gone into full Christmas mode. 92.9 started just after the 4th of July and The Fish started after Labor day I think. Say what you will about the [email protected], at least I did not hear Burl Ive's Holly Jolly Christmas on the Pebble. I head White Snake I think it was. Just think everyone, it wil be almost 1 whole year before we hear "Tender Tennessee Christmas" or Holly Jolly Christmas. With as much sarcasm as I can muster here: "WHAT- A- SHAME.

I do like some Christmas tunes though. I have my favorites as I pointed out so do not put me down as a total Scrooge just yet. Anyway, Merry Christmas to all!!!

Mary Glen did an all-Christmas "nooner" on 105.9 a couple of weeks ago. Nothing wrong with that, in and of itself, but she played some songs, even if they were "by request," that really did not fit a "rock" station. Jose Feliciano's "Feliz Navidad," which even though I don't dislike it the way some of you do, does not really fit the format of a supposedly "classic rock" station. And the Ronettes' version of "Sleigh Ride." I have posted many times on here that I think every remaining copy of the Phil Spector Christmas album should be confiscated and burned, and I will continue to say so, at the risk of being called a "scrooge." I have been listening to some of my own Christmas records here at home. And since I took 92.9 out of the presets, I think I suffered through only one airing of "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree." It is not Spector's, as far as I know, but does sound Spectorish. If they don't play oldies from that far back, why do they still torment us with Christmas music that old, that we all got sick of, years ago!?!? :

 

[SwissVol]

Re: Merry Christmas! (subject line changed to make it holiday appropriate!)

Ok, make it Merry Christmas instead of Happy Thanksgiving. While out looking for some fast food place last evening, I noticed most stations had gone into full Christmas mode. 92.9 started just after the 4th of July and The Fish started after Labor day I think. Say what you will about the [email protected], at least I did not hear Burl Ive's Holly Jolly Christmas on the Pebble. I head White Snake I think it was. Just think everyone, it wil be almost 1 whole year before we hear "Tender Tennessee Christmas" or Holly Jolly Christmas. With as much sarcasm as I can muster here: "WHAT- A- SHAME.

I do like some Christmas tunes though. I have my favorites as I pointed out so do not put me down as a total Scrooge just yet. Anyway, Merry Christmas to all!!!

Mary Glen did an all-Christmas "nooner" on 105.9 a couple of weeks ago. Nothing wrong with that, in and of itself, but she played some songs, even if they were "by request," that really did not fit a "rock" station. Jose Feliciano's "Feliz Navidad," which even though I don't dislike it the way some of you do, does not really fit the format of a supposedly "classic rock" station. And the Ronettes' version of "Sleigh Ride." I have posted many times on here that I think every remaining copy of the Phil Spector Christmas album should be confiscated and burned, and I will continue to say so, at the risk of being called a "scrooge." I have been listening to some of my own Christmas records here at home. And since I took 92.9 out of the presets, I think I suffered through only one airing of "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree." It is not Spector's, as far as I know, but does sound Spectorish. If they don't play oldies from that far back, why do they still torment us with Christmas music that old, that we all got sick of, years ago!?!? :

I always considered Jose Feliciano's music, Feliz Navidad, to be several cuts above much of the Christmas music played during the holiday season. Now I know that sounds snobby, but whatever. Just my opinion. I head some station, maybe it was Lightning 100, that played Manheim Steamroler Christmas music and I really enjoyed that!!

Rockin' around the Christmas tree was Brenda Lee right? That was pretty cool.

I have nothing against Christmas music being played on Nashville radio, but next year, think we can start no later than Labor day?

I dug up from my mp3 files Bing Crosby and David Bowie singing Little Drummer boy and that was nicely done!!! It was taken from Bing's Christmas special which aired on Network TV I think in 1977.

Ok, winding down 2007. I wonder what stations wil flip to new formats in 2008? 97.1 The tower? 106.7?

 

[firepoint525]

Happy New Year! (subject line changed again!)

I always considered Jose Feliciano's music, Feliz Navidad, to be several cuts above much of the Christmas music played during the holiday season. Now I know that sounds snobby, but whatever. Just my opinion. I head some station, maybe it was Lightning 100, that played Manheim Steamroler Christmas music and I really enjoyed that!!

I highly recommend taking 92.9 out of the presets between Thanksgiving and Christmas. It will save your sanity, believe me! I, too, like "Feliz Navidad," but like with so many other Christmas songs, it must be heard and listened to in moderation. Too much of that sticky sweet Christmas music will make you diabetic! I also have nothing against "Holly Jolly Christmas" but I don't recall hearing it this year. And Mannheim Steamroller is cool. Good thing for you that you weren't at my church's Christmas eve service. A woman with acoustic guitar sang "Tennessee Christmas"! I didn't mind that. At least it wasn't "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"!

Rockin' around the Christmas tree was Brenda Lee right? That was pretty cool.

Yes, and covered by my two least favorite singers, Amy Grant and LeeAnn Rimes. I can't help but think that Brenda Lee herself must be sick of that song by now. After all, she was 14 when she recorded it!

I have nothing against Christmas music being played on Nashville radio, but next year, think we can start no later than Labor day?

My birthday is November 29, so can we at least wait until December 1st? One year, my birthday fell on "Black Friday" and we had to play ALL Christmas music that day! At least we weren't 24/7 from then on. We only went "all Christmas" around December 18th. I remember going to a Fantastic Sam's for a haircut around December 23rd one year, and they were playing a Garth Brooks CD, because they were sick to death of all the non-stop Christmas music on the radio! Can't say I blamed them!

I dug up from my mp3 files Bing Crosby and David Bowie singing Little Drummer boy and that was nicely done!!! It was taken from Bing's Christmas special which aired on Network TV I think in 1977.

Might have been earlier than that. I believe Bing died in 1977, just a couple of months after Elvis. Of course, it probably aired again in '77, because of Bing's death just a couple of months earlier.

Ok, winding down 2007. I wonder what stations wil flip to new formats in 2008? 97.1 The tower? 106.7?

Rather than try to predict who will change, why don't we make a wish list of all the stations we would like to see make changes in the coming year? And that includes dropping corny canned nicknames like "the Tower" and dropping adjectives like "new" when you have actually been doing the same thing for a couple of years!

Too bad we can't change the subject line at the top of this thread to "Merry Christmas" or even "Happy New Year" now!

 

[SwissVol]

When you look at the stations that seem to be doing well as opposed to the stations that might be struggling some, it would stand to reason that 97.1 and 106.7 might see the ole format flip in 08.

 

[deltas69]

that 97.1 and 106.7 might see the ole format flip in 08. ,,,would 97.1 dare to return to an oldies format of some sort ?? very old inquiring minds want to know... ???

 

[SwissVol]

Let me talk about New York radio about all of this. I think many in New York city pretty much put the oldies format in the coffin only to see oldies return in NYC @ WCBS FM. I hope a true blue oldies format will return to Nashville again. I know I know the demos have changed so much that the typical listener has aged past the prime demos deal, but I know many of us would love to see oldies return to Nashville radio. I think Jack 96. 3, the Tower 97.1 and the [email protected] are classic rock *hits* stations. Someone can call Jack 96.3 an oldies station until Mrs O Leary's proverbial cows come back and that oldies description for Jack FM just will not work there. There were some that tried to pass WCBS FM in New York City as an updated oldies format in the form of Jack FM, but guess what? No one bought that. I reading a few people post about that on that NYC radio forums. You all know that forum? The guy that runs that posting forums runs a tight forum and will not tolerate any incorrect posting information. Rumor has it he might have called out the 101st Airborn to blast a few posters Anyway,There were some in NYC that tried to pass the Jack format as an updated oldies format to meet the needs of a younger demo. You all buy that? Maybe someone from the New York radio scene can talk about that situation with greater input. Here is a link to WCBS FM. I think that is certainly closer to the real oldies format that everyone knows. http://www.wcbsfm.com/

I hope they do bring back a very fine oldies format in Nashville again . As to what station might do it again on a strong signal FM station, I do not know. 97.1 would seem to be the station that might do it again. I listen to 101.7 out of Columbia when it does not fade out.