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Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays?

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AmericanRumorBoy

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Interesting "battle" in our market. 2 stations airing the usual greetings for the season with their news and sports and weather people on camera and doing the audio. The CBS affiliate has ALL of their people saying "Merry Christmas" while the NBC affiliate has ALL of their people saying "Happy Holidays". When I say ALL, I do mean ALL. The battle over "politically correct" greetings rages on! Is anyone else seeing such a pronounced difference in other markets?
 
> Interesting "battle" in our market. 2 stations airing the
> usual greetings for the season with their news and sports
> and weather people on camera and doing the audio. The CBS
> affiliate has ALL of their people saying "Merry Christmas"
> while the NBC affiliate has ALL of their people saying
> "Happy Holidays". When I say ALL, I do mean ALL. The
> battle over "politically correct" greetings rages on! Is
> anyone else seeing such a pronounced difference in other
> markets?
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I've only been watching a bit of the Detroit stations lately, but I know this much. WDIV is running "Seasons Greetings" promos, and while I haven't seen WXYZ for awhile, back in October they ran special Ramadan idents, with a mosque under the Circle-7.<P ID="signature">______________
From WNBC-TV New York this is Liiiiive at Fiiiiive!</P>
 
How about taping viewer greetings and running those with station identifications??

However, I can understand using news teams: At nearly local television stations, local news is the only local programming being produced, and the success or failure of local news often determines whether the station is or isn't successful. A station whose local news falls into a deep third (or even fourth) place will likely see it's general manager canned, even though he/she isn't directly involved with local news.

So, the local news anchors are brought-out to deliver these on-air greetings. It's as much a promotion for the local news as any other promotion a station does for it's local newscasts.
 
WNYW, being a Fox o&o its Merry Christmas.
Everyone else seems to use Happy Holidays, save for WNET which uses Season's Greetings.<P ID="signature">______________
<a href=http://blog.spotteddogs.org/blog/>Random Observations on Life, the Universe and Television</a></P>
 
Fox News Channel: Heat Miser & Snow Miser Meltdown

> Interesting "battle" in our market. 2 stations airing the
> usual greetings for the season with their news and sports
> and weather people on camera and doing the audio. The CBS
> affiliate has ALL of their people saying "Merry Christmas"
> while the NBC affiliate has ALL of their people saying
> "Happy Holidays".

It's a mix of both here in Rochester, mostly because NOBODY CARES. We get Happy Hannukah, Merry Christmas, Seasons Greetings, Happy Holidays, and even something for Kwanzaa. Reason for the season? We all have a life up here and don't want to waste even a moment of it over fake Christmas wars.

BTW, Fox News -finally- melted down over their silly war which leaves even the majority of their viewers scratching their heads over why they care so much. There -are- missing white women to be found, after all.

Heat Miser Bill O'Reilly has been retracting and backpedaling for more than a week now on both his radio and TV shows, probably realizing he made a big mistake joining forces with the "newsclown" type of craziness coming out of John Gibson. Last night he retracted the nonsense about the forbidden red and green clothing:

http://thinkprogress.org/2005/12/21/oreilly-retraction/

Snow Miser John Gibson flaked out last night when Americans United confronted him and his guest with several examples of absolutely made up stories of Christmas oppression (I detailed several of these myself in the Off the Air forum - it's amazing that they really think they can just make stuff up and nobody will ever bother to check on it to see if it's true or not) while also trying to shill his book. When the facts get too close, it's time for a shoutdown. "You're a liar." "No you are." "No, you lied!" I presume viewers leaped for their remotes to switch away this childish sandbox spat with John "Odo Hair" Gibson to a Murder, She Wrote rerun or something.

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/The-Big-StoryGIbson-yells-Christmas.wmv

Really. We all need to stop buying into the manufactured news topics. This entire issue has been more fabricated than a counterfeit Prada bag from Peking. You'd better not put one of those under the Murdered Festivity Tree this generic season with snow. :)
 
Why the hell does it matter? Aren't there a few other things going on in the world and in the media that are more important?
 
How about "Happy Festivus"?

(Tonight at 9/8 Central time on TBS.)
 
CWRUFan said:
Why the hell does it matter? Aren't there a few other things going on in the world and in the media that are more important?
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I agree,this country has gotton so insane its not funny!!!

I usually say Happy Holidays ONLY BECAUSE I DONT KNOW WHAT THEY CELEBRATE and i dont wanna hurt thier feelings.. (Or make them mad)
 
Dude, you are posting in a thread that was last "used" 2 years ago.

You finally catching up on some reading or something?? ??? ;)
 
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