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playing Christmas Music after Christmas

HGN2001 said:
Though Christmas Day in 2022 is on a Sunday, the official Federal Holiday is on Monday, Dec. 26th. I would bet that radio stations will continue Christmas music through Monday.
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Some will some won't. But it won't surprise me for some stations that normally end Christmas music on Christmas Day to extend it to the 26th. Some stations that are changing formats could run it until New Year's Eve/Day.
 
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I would expect a few Christmas songs (maybe even one an hour) to be played on the 26th but not more than that.
 
CTListener said:
Noncommercial WJMJ Hartford, CT, keeps the music -- secular and religious alike -- going for the full twelve days. They at least have religious justification. I can't imagine any sane radio programmer thinking there'd be any value or listener goodwill to be gained by pumping out Burl Ives, Jose Feliciano and Mariah past early Dec. 26. I see posters on this board calling for post-holiday ho-ho every year. It's a peculiar form of radio geekhood that I just can't wrap my head around.
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Post holiday? The Christmas season actually starts tomorrow on Christmas Eve and goes to at least Epiphany if not the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord. So, in my mind, Christmas music should go at least to Epiphany. My tree stays up until then. Sirius could at least keep some of the more religious music on until then.
 
CTListener said:
AFAIK, British radio puts its Christmas music away after the 25th, too. Boxing Day is for football (soccer) and drinking.
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Not entirely. Today, both Heart FM and Capital FM have been playing some Christmas music. Heart FM has been playing around three Christmas songs per hour, while Capital FM has been playing one to two per hour.
 
It says it on their website labeled B101's Christmas Bonus. This is the first time that I know of that they did this.
I am not sure if WJBR or WLEV are going to continue playing Christmas Music until New Years Eve.
Hear B101.1's Christmas Bonus week
 
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JH_Radio said:
So National Appliance Warehouse paid them to play this for a week longer?
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If someone is willing to attach their name to it, great. Who knows how much it brought in, but kudos for finding a way to keep selling different sponsorships, beyond things like the studio name etc.
 
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