Overwhelmingly the stations that flip to all Christmas are either AC or religious stations. In contrast few other stations bother going all Christmas. Does this jibe with your experience? Can you list any oddities like a rock station going Christmas?
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Non-AC/religious stations that flip Christmas
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The NPR station i manage starts adding Christmas music the day after thanksgiving... 2 per hour in hours we have local djs or local autromation. about 10 days later, we bump it up to 3 songs per hour............. a week or so after that we up it to 4 songs per hour.
We'll go all Christmas music Noon on the 24th to 9am on the 26th. We'll have a local morning show on the 24th, no afternoon show that day.. no shows on the 25th.. no morning show on the 26th and a shortened afternoon show on the 26th (normally, were live/local 7 to 9am, and 12 to 5pm....well be live 7 to 9am the 24th and 12-2 on the 26th)
We'll go all Christmas music Noon on the 24th to 9am on the 26th. We'll have a local morning show on the 24th, no afternoon show that day.. no shows on the 25th.. no morning show on the 26th and a shortened afternoon show on the 26th (normally, were live/local 7 to 9am, and 12 to 5pm....well be live 7 to 9am the 24th and 12-2 on the 26th)
I don't remember if I verified this last year, but it has been my experience that America's Best Music (standards with very few actual standards) has changed to one song after each commercial break (including breaks that some stations don't take, instead playing the music provided) and after the news after thanksgiving, and a few weeks before Christmas it goes all Christmas.
In Charlotte WKQC has gone all-Christmas. Some sources claim it is AC but there's very little about the station's music to justify that and other sources call it classic hits.
In Charlotte WKQC has gone all-Christmas. Some sources claim it is AC but there's very little about the station's music to justify that and other sources call it classic hits.
Often other formats will go all-Christmas on 12/24 and 12/25, especially country stations. KXDD Yakima, KXLE Ellensburg, and others all 100% Christmas as of 1PM today. A few CHR stations in various markets also flip for those two days, as do some classic rockers. It's a Smooth Jazz Christmas at WSBZ FWB (one of my favorites to listen to on Christmas Eve). Classical stations go all-Christmas too.
An interesting listen is KWIQ Moses Lake WA around 4PM on Christmas Eve. They air the entire Handel's Messiah without interruption. VERY unusual for a country station.
An interesting listen is KWIQ Moses Lake WA around 4PM on Christmas Eve. They air the entire Handel's Messiah without interruption. VERY unusual for a country station.
Classic country WCNL Newport, NH, goes all-Christmas on the day after Thanksgiving every year, playing mostly pop artists with surprisingly few country Christmas songs. In years past, we had an oldies station that did a similar flip, but that station flipped to AC a few months back and, at least to start out, has played very little Christmas music. The Vermont Public Classical network has been playing one or two Christmas pieces an hour for the past week.
I haven't checked, but the oldies station where I live, which has played a few Christmas songs all month, has in the past switched to country songs.
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