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K-Earth Could Go Full-Blown Christmas 24/7

DToTheJ

DToTheJ

I've noticed that CBS Radio is attempting to get a stronghold of holiday music in some of their markets while there is an opportunity to do so.

Consider the stations in their portfolio that are Christmas round-the-clock right now:

WODS/Boston (oldies)
KOOL/Phoenix (oldies)
WLTE/Minneapolis (AC)
KWLI/Denver (country)

In addition, WCBS-FM in New York has been promoting themselves - since October, mind you - as "New York's Home for the Holidays". And recently, WOGL in Philadelphia has been teasing in promos that "Philadelphia's Christmas Classics Station is coming soon..."

With all these moves on a great number of their stations just over a week before Thanksgiving, I wouldn't be surprised if the smattering of Christmas tracks currently heard on KRTH evolves into all-holiday hits, all the time.
 
They'd lose out to KOST - already established for years. But I can see a short-sighted corporate decision to make them do it.

I predict they'll stick to the three songs per hour plan, top of the hour, 20 past, 20 of. They've done that two years in a row, Thanksgiving to Xmas. Why mess with a good thing.
 
DToTheJ said:
I've noticed that CBS Radio is attempting to get a stronghold of holiday music in some of their markets while there is an opportunity to do so.

Consider the stations in their portfolio that are Christmas round-the-clock right now:

WODS/Boston (oldies)
KOOL/Phoenix (oldies)
WLTE/Minneapolis (AC)
KWLI/Denver (country)

In addition, WCBS-FM in New York has been promoting themselves - since October, mind you - as "New York's Home for the Holidays". And recently, WOGL in Philadelphia has been teasing in promos that "Philadelphia's Christmas Classics Station is coming soon..."

With all these moves on a great number of their stations just over a week before Thanksgiving, I wouldn't be surprised if the smattering of Christmas tracks currently heard on KRTH evolves into all-holiday hits, all the time.
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you forgot WOCL orlando sunny 105.9 is all christmas
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God No! The whole reason I jumped to K-Earth, is because of christmas crap,
Kost. I don't care for started having christmas music starting first week of november.
That and firing Kim I had enough :mad:
Listener can only take so much coperate B.S
 
DToTheJ said:
I've noticed that CBS Radio is attempting to get a stronghold of holiday music in some of their markets while there is an opportunity to do so.

Consider the stations in their portfolio that are Christmas round-the-clock right now:

WODS/Boston (oldies)
KOOL/Phoenix (oldies)
WLTE/Minneapolis (AC)
KWLI/Denver (country)

In addition, WCBS-FM in New York has been promoting themselves - since October, mind you - as "New York's Home for the Holidays". And recently, WOGL in Philadelphia has been teasing in promos that "Philadelphia's Christmas Classics Station is coming soon..."

With all these moves on a great number of their stations just over a week before Thanksgiving, I wouldn't be surprised if the smattering of Christmas tracks currently heard on KRTH evolves into all-holiday hits, all the time.
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NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
 
nmoore6676 said:
All I want for Christmas is at least one spin of "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" then I'm done with Christmas music. ;D
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That's one song that, thankfully, KRTH never ever plays. Nor do they do the horrid Christmas Shoes song.

For me, the holiday season begins when I first hear the Chipmunks, Little Saint Nick, or Augie Rios on a radio. If I heard those before Thanksgiving (which has never happened) I'd be bummed.
 
LA is actually one of the rare markets that has basically had only one real Christmas station. Exceptions would be KZLA a few years back and The Fish. As I recall KZLA didn't see any gains. My guess is that Roy is pushing KRTH to go all Christmas. With his experience at KOST he probably thinks that it could give KRTH a bump. I'm guessing that it'll just tick off their core. But who really knows, it could help them.
 
DToTheJ said:
I've noticed that CBS Radio is attempting to get a stronghold of holiday music in some of their markets while there is an opportunity to do so.

Consider the stations in their portfolio that are Christmas round-the-clock right now:

WODS/Boston (oldies)
KOOL/Phoenix (oldies)
WLTE/Minneapolis (AC)
KWLI/Denver (country)

In addition, WCBS-FM in New York has been promoting themselves - since October, mind you - as "New York's Home for the Holidays". And recently, WOGL in Philadelphia has been teasing in promos that "Philadelphia's Christmas Classics Station is coming soon..."

With all these moves on a great number of their stations just over a week before Thanksgiving, I wouldn't be surprised if the smattering of Christmas tracks currently heard on KRTH evolves into all-holiday hits, all the time.
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New York's WCBS-FM has gone to a modified Holiday Music approach: since Mon. 11/17/08, weeknights from 7pm-Midnight. We'll see what happens this weekend.
 
calguy said:
My guess is that Roy is pushing KRTH to go all Christmas. With his experience
at KOST he probably thinks that it could give KRTH a bump.
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Same scenario is playing out in Phoenix: long-time Xmas flipper is CC's AC KESZ
which this year has competition from CBS classic hits KOOL-FM. Bummer. :(
 
Can anyone say "BOONDOGGLE"? A huge mistake this would be---enough with the holiday music already--we only need it around the 20th-25th of December-that's PLENTY!!!!!! :mad:
 
How about "Cruel and Unusual Punishment"....It's unconstitutional....

At the rate we are going, I can see stations going Christmas right after labor day in a few years. Okay, maybe that was just a bad dream.
 
I saw an editorial posted, somewhere, about how Christmas was "starting" way too soon. The article talked about how early November was ridiculous to begin mentioning the holiday, and basically had the tone of "what is the world coming to?"

It was written in the 1940s.
 
Michael Rivers Kramer said:
How about "Cruel and Unusual Punishment"....It's unconstitutional....

At the rate we are going, I can see stations going Christmas right after labor day in a few years. Okay, maybe that was just a bad dream.
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It just gets worse and worse every year... :mad:

Seriously, who the heck wants to hear Christmas music 24/7? Personally, I can start toleratiing a few songs maybe a couple of weeks before Christmas. The token Christmas song gets me in the mood, but stations playing it non-stop really gets beyond annoying. As per my now annual tradition, the moment KOST 103.5 goes all Christmas, it loses it's preset in my car. I'm not sure what I'm going to be replacing it with yet, but it will definitely be some station playing contemporary music of some sort!
 
Totally with you john77, though KOST isn't one of my stops. There's always CDs you can burn and play. That's what I do with the sad state of LA music radio except for Indie.
 
Michael Rivers Kramer said:
At the rate we are going, I can see stations going Christmas right after labor day in a few years.
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Look on the bright side, folks will be allowed to wear white shirts then! :D
 
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