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over/under on rochester holiday formats this year...

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Anyone want to speculate on the number of stations that will temporarily flip to Holiday Music in the Rochester market, and when?

Closest to the actual number and date will win the undying respect of the assemblage-- OK, at least my undying respect.

My guess: Fickle (Stephens) and Sunny (Clear Channel), November 15. (Which means I give up on both stations about November 16-- humbug... I like holiday music in reasonable amounts, but not 24/7. And someone please play "Snoopy's Christmas" this year...)

I'm not sure that Entercom will play this year. It's not obvious to me which station they would use.

As my "well, duh" prediction, I'll further speculate that as they did last year, Legends will mix in Christmas songs but not go completely all-holiday-all-the-time, and that the Bee will have some Country Christmas Cheer as well.
 
umtrr-author said:
Anyone want to speculate on the number of stations that will temporarily flip to Holiday Music in the Rochester market, and when?

Closest to the actual number and date will win the undying respect of the assemblage-- OK, at least my undying respect.

My guess: Fickle (Stephens) and Sunny (Clear Channel), November 15. (Which means I give up on both stations about November 16-- humbug... I like holiday music in reasonable amounts, but not 24/7. And someone please play "Snoopy's Christmas" this year...)

I'm not sure that Entercom will play this year. It's not obvious to me which station they would use.

As my "well, duh" prediction, I'll further speculate that as they did last year, Legends will mix in Christmas songs but not go completely all-holiday-all-the-time, and that the Bee will have some Country Christmas Cheer as well.
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Oh God No...it's that time of the year again when holiday tunes bombard the airwaves :eek:

Actually I'm surprised that some station's haven't started getting out the old Burl Ives recordings already. After all it's close to Halloween, which means that Christmas items have been up on store shelves for weeks now.
 
I'm calling it November 3rd for Sunny, November 10th for Warm and the Buzz.
 
November 12 for Warm 101.3 in the Stephens cluster; No later than November 17 for the Drive 100.5 and Sunny 102.3 in the Clear Channel group, maybe as a prelude to a possible format change for the Drive in January and a reshuffling of the Clear Channel cluster to reduce potential in-house competition/overlap for the new, Wease-driven Fox 95.1.

Entercom sits this one out in Rochester this time around, since the station they flipped last year (Fickle) isn't part of their portfolio any more, and nothing they have left in their cluster is an obvious candidate. Can't see them going the full Santa route with either CMF, 98PXY, Buzz or BEE, although the latter station will have a significant amount of country Christmas music in the rotation during December. And ESPN950 is a sure non-starter for any kind of music format including Christmas music.

Pure speculation, of course, but it makes as much sense as anything that comes to mind at the moment...
 
My View on Christmas Music

Anyone who tunes in "all Christmas" before Thanksgiving Day should be subjected to endless, high-volume repetition of "Jingle Bells" by The Barking Dogs, 24/7, through Orthodox Christmas night.

Any station who goes "all Christmas" before Thanksgiving Day should have their license revoked as not operating in the "public interest, convenience, or necessity". At the very least, their ratings should have an asterisk that says *"People don't really listen to this crap, they're subjected to it by store owners and office nazis."

-Scrooge
 
Re: My View on Christmas Music

SirRoxalot said:
Anyone who tunes in "all Christmas" before Thanksgiving Day should be subjected to endless, high-volume repetition of "Jingle Bells" by The Barking Dogs, 24/7, through Orthodox Christmas night.

Any station who goes "all Christmas" before Thanksgiving Day should have their license revoked as not operating in the "public interest, convenience, or necessity". At the very least, their ratings should have an asterisk that says *"People don't really listen to this crap, they're subjected to it by store owners and office nazis."

-Scrooge
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Here here!
 
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