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"Holiday" Music Format Change Thread

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AlanB

KDGE-FM (102.1) flipped to "holiday" music today. Will KLUV (98.7) match them at 5 PM today or will they keep the "holiday" music just on an HD subchannel? I wish they would have waited until Black Friday, but that will never happen.

I make a distinction between Christmas music (that which belongs in the season of Advent and the Christian holiday of Christmas) and "holiday" music that plays "let it snow", and "all I want for Christmas is you" repeatedly.
 
AlanB said:
KDGE-FM (102.1) flipped to "holiday" music today. Will KLUV (98.7) match them at 5 PM today or will they keep the "holiday" music just on an HD subchannel? I wish they would have waited until Black Friday, but that will never happen.

I make a distinction between Christmas music (that which belongs in the season of Advent and the Christian holiday of Christmas) and "holiday" music that plays "let it snow", and "all I want for Christmas is you" repeatedly.
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KLUV HD3 has been playing Christmas music for a couple of weeks now, and that's probably where it's going to stay.
 
KHYI will go all Christmas for Black Friday only, then we'll drop back down to 1 or 2 songs every 3 or 4 hours for a week or so. We'll build slowly, but won't go all Christmas again until noon Dec 24. Our listeners just aren't that into all Christmas music.
 
Why go all Christmas for Black Friday? LOL unless you want your sponsors to sell more, because people are in the giving mood after they hear your station.


And why not call this Christmas Music Format Change thread? It's not like the radio plays Hanukkah or Kwanzaa music does it?
 
AnyHuman said:
Why go all Christmas for Black Friday? LOL unless you want your sponsors to sell more, because people are in the giving mood after they hear your station.


And why not call this Christmas Music Format Change thread? It's not like the radio plays Hanukkah or Kwanzaa music does it?
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You'll note the quotes around the word Holiday in the title. I think the original poster would agree with you, but is making the point that corporations are now reluctant to actually call it what it is for fear of someone claiming offense.
 
AnyHuman said:
Why go all Christmas for Black Friday? LOL unless you want your sponsors to sell more, because people are in the giving mood after they hear your station.


And why not call this Christmas Music Format Change thread? It's not like the radio plays Hanukkah or Kwanzaa music does it?
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Because there is a big difference between Christmas Music (which celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ) and "holiday" music ("Let It Snow, "All I want for Christmas is you" etc.).

KLTY plays Christmas music.
KDGE plays "holiday" music
WRR plays classical versions of both.
 
In addition to songs about the birth of Jesus, KLTY and other Christian Contemporary stations play "Let It Snow" and "Home for The Holidays." Yes, Christian stations avoid novelty songs, and go heavier on religious Christmas songs from CCR artists. But its listeners grew up with The Carpenters and Nat King Cole and don't want those songs missing from the playlist.

Once upon a time, mainstream radio stations didn't play "Silent Night" and "Away in A Manger" until Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. But with today's All-Christmas format starting in mid-November, that rule went out the window. The end of that rule was coupled with the release in 1987 of the "A Very Special Christmas" album for charity, which features Stevie Nicks singing "O Holy Night" and Whitney Houston singing "Do You Hear What I Hear?" Radio stations didn't want to wait till Dec. 24 to play those songs by major artists because they were religious.

Making distinctions between "Christmas Music" and "Holiday Music" is now as outmoded as not playing two female artists back to back.
 
Some Christian stations also play novelty songs...for example the first station on which I heard "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" was on the Joy-FM in Tampa Bay.
 
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