Much as I like Christmas music (on occassion), I cannot handle a steady diet of Christmas music for over 40 days. So, with much regret, my presets for 'ODS and 'ROR have been erased. So now, it's time to listen to 'BOQ (behind the IBOC stuff) over the air AND on-line with WLS-FM and of course..... WCBS-FM. IMHO.... going all Christmas two weeks BEFORE Thanksgiving is OVERKILL.
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Once again, it's time to change the presets.......
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You can always listen to my show on Thursday at WMFO....http://www.myspace.com/striketheboxradioshow sorry for the shameless plug....
I won't be listening to any Christmas music until AFTER Thanksgiving. It's far too early... agreed! Peter, add WRBQ-FM Tampa to your online list (as long as they don't go all Christmas). I place them right up there with CBS-FM. Used to have it in my presets when I lived in St. Pete last year and was quite impressed.
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Thank goodness for Pirate Radio stations !!!!!!!
I couldn't say it better myself Rapking. For those who miss there oldies music tune to my friends At 87.9 FM If you can receive them from where you guys are located.
boobo0 said:
this thread is about presets. read the title - mainly use presets for VHF here. for 88-108 i just spin the dial
ive recently added the norwood airport's weather, since unlike NOAA they read their weather, instead of feed it to a robot
also 1885 AM has been added to the lineup for my HF presets since 80 meters has been going long
How many times can you stand to hear Barking Jingle Bells before you BREAK the radio?
If the clients didn't buy "All X-mas music All the time" we wouldn't have two stations programming it like this. If it didn't bring in money they wouldn't do it. Do they care what the listeners want or do they want the money?
If the clients didn't buy "All X-mas music All the time" we wouldn't have two stations programming it like this. If it didn't bring in money they wouldn't do it. Do they care what the listeners want or do they want the money?
Radio Veteran said:How many times can you stand to hear Barking Jingle Bells before you BREAK the radio?
If the clients didn't buy "All X-mas music All the time" we wouldn't have two stations programming it like this. If it didn't bring in money they wouldn't do it. Do they care what the listeners want or do they want the money?
The money is paramount, of course. But believe it or not, non-radio-geek listeners love their Christmas music. If everyone stopped listening to those stations when they switched, the advertisers would bail out. The average listener -- the one who's never cared about tight playlists or repetition of familiar songs -- doesn't stop listening. This is a time of year that the average listener looks forward to.
Stores that are selling Christmas merchandise will flip the radio to 103.3 or 105.7 for music.CTListener said:Radio Veteran said:How many times can you stand to hear Barking Jingle Bells before you BREAK the radio?
If the clients didn't buy "All X-mas music All the time" we wouldn't have two stations programming it like this. If it didn't bring in money they wouldn't do it. Do they care what the listeners want or do they want the money?
The money is paramount, of course. But believe it or not, non-radio-geek listeners love their Christmas music. If everyone stopped listening to those stations when they switched, the advertisers would bail out. The average listener -- the one who's never cared about tight playlists or repetition of familiar songs -- doesn't stop listening. This is a time of year that the average listener looks forward to.
The average person would also rather be lazy and just turn on the radio for a large Christmas music variety. There's no need to buy Christmas CDs anymore since the radio plays Christmas music for over a month.
CTListener said:Radio Veteran said:How many times can you stand to hear Barking Jingle Bells before you BREAK the radio?
If the clients didn't buy "All X-mas music All the time" we wouldn't have two stations programming it like this. If it didn't bring in money they wouldn't do it. Do they care what the listeners want or do they want the money?
The money is paramount, of course. But believe it or not, non-radio-geek listeners love their Christmas music. If everyone stopped listening to those stations when they switched, the advertisers would bail out. The average listener -- the one who's never cared about tight playlists or repetition of familiar songs -- doesn't stop listening. This is a time of year that the average listener looks forward to.
In my humble opinion, I believe the average listener doesn't mind it after Thanksgiving, but not 2 weeks befort Thanksgiving.
Again, when I read that "people have been e-mailing us wondering when we would go all Christmas" my
first thought was, yeah: THE SPONSORS.
first thought was, yeah: THE SPONSORS.
Aha. I am certainly not the average listener because I never look forward to this time of year. The Christmas holiday is nice, but other than that, at this time of year I always look forward to spring and summer next year. Yes, warm weather and vacation trips to places like the Cape. 8) As far as Christmas music, you take a already tight playlist, and make it even tighter, and start it a rediculous time so early before the holiday. I could never figure out how people could listen to the same songs over and over and over without getting tired of them in the normal playlists. If one song plays on the radio more than 3 times in the same week, that is already too much for me. To those who can't stand repetition, there are always alternative stations to listen to, if not on air, then online. To us non-average listeners that the radio stations don't care at all about, we simply say screw them, and listen to something else. If I had to listen to nothing but non-stop Christmas music on the radio for six weeks, I could see the men in white coats coming to take me away. I am sure some DJs will also be turning down the studio monitor from time to time. I know they do it sometimes with the normal playlist. This Christmas music also must be really annoying to a lot of Jewish and non-Christian listeners who like the regular format on those stations. I would suggest keeping the Christmas music only on the Christian stations, but the corporate radio giants want that $$ of course. With that said, some Christmas music mixed into the regular format is nice to hear, but not non-stop, unless it was Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.CTListener said:
I've actually met quite a few Jewish and non-Christians over the years who love Christmas music. Perhaps the music is in the mainstream so much that the religious implications are somewhat removed... not to mention that "Little Saint Nick" and "The Christmas Song" aren't exactly loaded with Christian references.
Seeing as Boston doesn't have any CCM stations, it's irrelevant, but in markets that do have them, those stations often go with an all-Christmas format but keep it limited to more religious Christmas songs, and covers of those songs by CCM artists.
Seeing as Boston doesn't have any CCM stations, it's irrelevant, but in markets that do have them, those stations often go with an all-Christmas format but keep it limited to more religious Christmas songs, and covers of those songs by CCM artists.
encarta95 said:
Many of the "Christmas" songs you'll hear on 'ODS and 'ROR are actually cold weather/frozen precipitation songs: "Winter Wonderland," "Let It Snow," "White Christmas," "The Christmas Song" ... Christmas exists only as a backdrop to the latter two songs; in the first two it isn't mentioned at all. And then there are "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" and "Here Comes Santa Claus" and that Chipmunks' Christmas song, which are about getting toys, not religion.
I'm one of those non-Christians who likes Christmas music -- the traditional carols and choral pieces for the most part, although "Snoopy's Christmas" and "Let It Snow" have a certain charm. I wish there were a greater variety of songs played on those stations that go all-Christmas, but the typical listener and typical advertiser don't, as the ratings and billings show.
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