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Standards & Country Christmas music in the mix?

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JonOlsen

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From Thanksgiving to Christmas if your Country station played Christmas music with a standard ramped-up ratio of seasonal tunes, at some point close to Dec. 25th would you add Christmas standards into the mix?

Standards being defined as: Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, John Lennon and other universal versions of those signature songs?
 
I would run maybe one or two per daypart of the Bing Crosby-type standards from about the second week of December... very carefully selected standards. Then on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, a couple an hour... and at that point I would also get rid of all the novelty stuff.

Country Christmas music used to be dreadful, but it has improved considerably over the past few years. But country stations still have a challenge during December... many country listeners really love Christmas music and will switch over at least partially to an all-Christmas music station.

We run a satellite feed most of the time and follow their playlist when we're live... and I don't think they did a very good job last year of mixing in the standards. They had some "beautiful music/easy listening" type songs that just stuck out.
 
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