K-Earth Looping Christmas Music

[Uncle Rob]

Around 2 p.m. Christmas afternoon I was listening to KRTH and they were playing Christmas music. Typical, it IS Christmas after all. But lo and behold, 7 hours later I heard the same songs in the same order. Then the same DJ said the same things he said 7 hours earlier. You'd think in this day and age of computers they could've programmed countless hours of songs and do a bunch of "drops" instead of just looping the same thing over and over. Am I missing something here? What's up with that?

 

[RadioStarOne]

Lazy programer's!

 

[calguy]

Considering the already high repetition of Christmas songs on the Wave and KOST over the last month & a half, what's the big deal that a station playing Christmas music for just one day does it with a recorded show? If they were airing a special and repeated it no one would care. Christmas is a throw away day anyway. Most people are too busy doing what they do on Christmas to notice. Christmas is usually unmanned at most music stations and most listeners know it. Hell, most stations will even announce that they're giving their people some time off. It's over with now anyway...

 

[davideduardo]

Around 2 p.m. Christmas afternoon I was listening to KRTH and they were playing Christmas music. Typical, it IS Christmas after all. But lo and behold, 7 hours later I heard the same songs in the same order. Then the same DJ said the same things he said 7 hours earlier. You'd think in this day and age of computers they could've programmed countless hours of songs and do a bunch of "drops" instead of just looping the same thing over and over. Am I missing something here? What's up with that?

I thought that the KRTH show was rather well done. The style was a bit AT 40, with some little trivia / info nuggets about some of the songs, and it was nicely presented by KRTH's morning talent.

Some effort went into the preparation of the music, with an obvious decision to present a blend of the traditional religious and quai-religious songs along with some of the standards in KRTH-fitting versions. While I am not fond of the KOST mix... and, of course, not being in the female target anyway, I found the blend nicely different.

As has been noted, nearly nobody listens much on Christmas eve or Christmas day, so whether the feature repeated or not is irrelevant. As to song repetition, how many songs are there that fit the format and are really worth playing?

 

[LKellerIII]

I recently spent a week in Orange County, and kept K-Earth on the car radio much of the time. You Southern Californians should consider yourself lucky - what a great station. I understand that the play list would probably get annoyingly repetitive after awhile, but the formatting, live DJs, jingles, etc - are brilliant, IMO. As a baby-boomer, Shotgun Tom Kelly is a bit of a throwback to the Real Don Steele, so I enjoyed that. Cristina Kelly's show included a lot of sound-bites from 70s era commercials, news reports, etc - she's very pleasant to listen to. And the station lets Charlie Tuna talk quite a bit - much more than he was able to 40+ years ago at KHJ, which I found a bit ironic.

In the Bay Area, all we've had in the last few years is CBS's pitiful and failed attempt to resurrect KFRC, and now a weak Clear Channel version - first billed as "Oldies 103.7," and now "the New 103.7" with voice-tracked DJs.

KROQ sounded pretty good to me, too, though my son (24) who came with us is the expert on current music. Much better than our Live 105.

If I lived in So Cal, I would probably still be listening to radio. As it is, it's either NPR or i-pod for me at this point.

 

[angelbec]

I liked KRTH 101... After listening to the WAVE and KOST it was a pleasant change ... man I wonder if they are going to start playing xmas music the day after Halloween next year ... just saying ...