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A hip-hop station? No, seriously, Magic?
NigelWick said:
QFM was first by a few hours last year on 11/1. EZ 103 panicked when they heard the flip and they scrambled around all morning to get the Xmas music on the hard drives and launched around noon. Magic waited until the last three weeks before the holiday.
My bet? QFM again. Ratings were double for the Xmas music than what they're doing now.
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marker102
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I think EZ will start on 11/1 regardless. They were caught off guard last year, and even though I seriously doubt QFM will go all Christmas this year (they have a format now), I think that EZ will just jump the gun and go ahead and ruin Christmas once again (plan on it). They're not going to kill their ratings, only increase them (statistically).. so come Halloween, it would probably be best to either give your radios away to trick or treaters, or get your sled ready for a sleigh ride the next afternoon.
People in outside of the Northeast are laughing at us. Hysterically.
People in outside of the Northeast are laughing at us. Hysterically.
marker102 said:
This phenomenah is not unique to NEPA. Stations all over the country now start Christmas in early November. I agree, EZ 103 will probably be the one to go first. Magic 93 will probably exercise a little restraint again. QFM is the question. Will they go all Christmas or stick with the format. Who needs 3 all Christmas stations?
I miss the way it was just a few years ago. Some stations would start Christmas after Thanksgiving. They would start with all Christmas in the Evenings and gradually add it little by little in the day until the week before when they would go all Christmas. WISH 102/103 always did a good job with that as did Magic 93 when they first started the all Christmas thing. WWDL used to do a good job with Christmas too.
The worse thing is not only do they go all Christmas too early. A lot of these stations play the same 10 Christmas songs over and over and over and over....again
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yonkstur
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A lot of these stations play the same 10 Christmas songs over and over and over and over....again
And there's no excuse for that. When my wife and I started our annual ChristmasMusic project in 2000 we were then, and are now, blown away by the large inventory of Christmas and Holiday tunes available. There has never been as much variety of it as there is now in the music industry.
Yonkstur
And there's no excuse for that. When my wife and I started our annual ChristmasMusic project in 2000 we were then, and are now, blown away by the large inventory of Christmas and Holiday tunes available. There has never been as much variety of it as there is now in the music industry.
Yonkstur
Who will start last and end last? Me. I start about two days before Christmas and end on Epiphany. I'm my own PD and MD.
WARM, circa late 70s to mid 80s, had a Christmas playlist of maybe, MAYBE, eight songs. I still have nightmares about sitting there playing the same garbage over and over and over and over and over. The "currents" weren't a whole lot better, somewhere around a dozen songs tops. And the oldies rotation would shrink daily. Behind it all? One Ron Allen. Ron is an icon, and deservedly so, but his idea of music selection was not good. Mostly, it was a knee-jerk reaction to corporate, whose music philosophy was one of life's mysteries...
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snowman101
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i'd flip now.
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Nokmo True
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Is there anything in a license that says you have to be on the air? I mean, can you own a station and just "turn it on" for three months out of a year? Or is there a license like that?
You could sell it year round. "I know it's February, they're priced to move." Then just crank up the rate a little each month. Then October 1st, you turn it on, the production's in there, and you go to Florida for three months.
Yonk, you're an avant-garde guy. Giddyup here. I'll be the silent partner/consultant since it was my idea. You get 60, I'll take 40. You buy the boat I'll make sure it's gassed up. We toast to New Year's on Sanibel Island and then turn it off and start selling it again.
People love Christmas music.
You could sell it year round. "I know it's February, they're priced to move." Then just crank up the rate a little each month. Then October 1st, you turn it on, the production's in there, and you go to Florida for three months.
Yonk, you're an avant-garde guy. Giddyup here. I'll be the silent partner/consultant since it was my idea. You get 60, I'll take 40. You buy the boat I'll make sure it's gassed up. We toast to New Year's on Sanibel Island and then turn it off and start selling it again.
People love Christmas music.
AM's have to be on for 2/3rd's of their daytime hours and 2/3rd's of their nighttime hours. (The broadcast day for fulltimers is 6:00am till midnight, for daytimers is sunrise to sunset.)
FM's have to be on for 12 hours/day.
Pretty sure those are the rules; they used to be.
FM's have to be on for 12 hours/day.
Pretty sure those are the rules; they used to be.
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I was in Philly last year and I could have SWORN Sunny 104 was playing Christmas music well before Halloween--------Then I went back around Thanksgiving and 4 or 5 stations had gone all Christmas.
And, yes, their playlists didn't seem to be more than a hundred songs. In fact, I switched around to all the stations and heard most of them all playing Andy Williams AT THE SAME TIME!!!!!
Seriously, why not play Christmas music all year round??? Every once in a while I'll throw a Christmas CD on in June or August. Sometimes you gotta say what the hell...y'know????
And, yes, their playlists didn't seem to be more than a hundred songs. In fact, I switched around to all the stations and heard most of them all playing Andy Williams AT THE SAME TIME!!!!!
Seriously, why not play Christmas music all year round??? Every once in a while I'll throw a Christmas CD on in June or August. Sometimes you gotta say what the hell...y'know????
I have them all beat. I'm running a pirate FM station (won't tell you where), and started programming Christmas music when this thread started just to be the first. Let's just say bringing WMMR to the valley was the feather in my hat. Who am I ? I'll bet someone knows.
ColorRadio said:
Christmas music in August? Another indication that we are in rapid decline as a civilized people. You brought WMMR to the Valley? I used to listen to WMMR on my TV cable's sub-carrier over 25 years ago. Most people NEVER realized that if they split their cable off into an input on their amp/tuner, they could get a ton of FM signals from all over the country. Don't know if that still works, and really don't much care...
Schmidlapp said:
Every 50 days, I play "Easter Parade" as the RHV o/c music. It's "run of disc" and when I fix the other disc, it will be every 92 days.
Every 50 days, I play "Easter Parade" as the RHV o/c music. It's "run of disc" and when I fix the other disc, it will be every 92 days.
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