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Stations In The Mix Over The Holidays....

raydiodude

raydiodude

Christmas is usually the most boring day of the year for radio. It's even worse when it falls on a Saturday because Saturday's are normally the most interesting day of the week for mix shows. With Christmas falling on a Saturday, the two cancel each other out. New Years is great, but since it already falls on a weekend, I don't see it as anything special for the next two or three years because no one will be "forced" to do more than just a weekend mix, which is normally already done on a regular weekend schedule. I like when New Years is on a Thursday, Friday, Monday, or Tuesday because that means stations will most likely have to do a four day weekend. Wednesday's are the worst day for a holiday, since most people will "cheat" and just mix for that one day.

I still do remember the all of December holiday mix weekend on Power 106 back in 96. Many other L.A. stations were partying it up as well, in english and spanish.
 
It seems like holiday mix weekends are hard to find now. I remember here in Texas, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio would all do their thing during a holiday. Now, maybe San Antonio is the only city in Texas that's doing anything at all.
 
Reasoning, Christmas suppose to be the holiday to "respect" and honor rather than party on.

It's a catch 22 for a most urban stations the ones that gender-neutral in target demos will likely not mix rather play holiday music. Also 90% of the on-air staff (including most regular part-timers) are off for the holiday. However, the ones that targets males usually will mix (but most of it isn't live since mixers might want to be off as well). On rhythmic stations, it all depends on local management because I've seen some do like their urban counterparts and yield mixing for the holiday as well.
 
Raydiodude, the mixshow schedule looks great! With Christmas being on a Saturday im sure most stations will do the usual Friday/Saturday mixshow schedules. BTW, your New years Eve nonstop mixes reminds me of how HOT 107.9 would do Megamixes on holidays back in the day.

BLAZIN 92.3 Macon, GA will jumpoff in the mix on Christmas Eve as well.
 
hot 97 started today at noon


they need to turn over a new leaf in the new year and bump the mixing down the ratings are starting to hurt from it


look at power 105 they must be doing something right over there
 
stations mixing on the holidays is power106 and 93.5 kday allstars mixers joel vinyl mr choc c minus dj showtime mona lisa classic 1 dj rawn dj choice dj creativity DJ DENSE AND MR AD.
 
POWER 106 IN L.A USE TO MIX ALL GENERATIONS NO LONGER 93.5 KDAY REPLACES POWER 106 ALL GENERATIONS OF MUSIC NOW. POWER 106 LAID OFF ALL THERE GOOD MIXERS. DJ VICE DOESNT MIX ON POWER 106 ANYMORE DJ RAWN HAS HIS OWN INTERNET STATION CALLED THE MIXSHOW.COM IN LONG BEACH CALIF.
 
97.9 The Beat here in there DFW will be mixing 5pm-2am New Years Eve. Wow....
 
Mike, I guess they are not starting at noon because they are doing a year end countdown at 2pm until 5pm.
 
Hot 97 New years mix weekend

Thursday, Dec. 30th
12pm-2pm Mister Cee
2pm-4pm DJ Camilo
4pm-7pm DJ Enuff
7pm-12mid Flex
12mid-2am Kay Slay
2am-6am Kast One

Friday Dec. 31st
10am-12pm DJ Absolut
12pm-2pm Kast One
2pm-4pm DJ Camilo
4pm-7pm DJ Enuff
7pm-10pm Mister Cee
10pm-12mid Flex
12mid-2am Bobby Trends
2mid-6am Cocoa Chanelle

Saturday Jan. 1st
10am-3pm Dennis (Countdown)
3pm-7pm Monse (Countdown)
7pm-11pm Flex
11pm-12mid Bobby & Jabba
12mid-4am Big Ben
4am-6am Cocoa Chanelle

Sunday Jan. 2nd
10am-12pm DJ Absolut
12pm-3pm Big Ben
3pm-5pm Kay Slay
5pm-7pm Kast One
7pm-10pm Bobby Trends
10pm-12mid Bobby & Jabba
12mid-2am Rosenberg
 
hiphopRadio said:
Hot 97 New years mix weekend

Thursday, Dec. 30th
12pm-2pm Mister Cee
2pm-4pm DJ Camilo
4pm-7pm DJ Enuff
7pm-12mid Flex
12mid-2am Kay Slay
2am-6am Kast One

Friday Dec. 31st
10am-12pm DJ Absolut
12pm-2pm Kast One
2pm-4pm DJ Camilo
4pm-7pm DJ Enuff
7pm-10pm Mister Cee
10pm-12mid Flex
12mid-2am Bobby Trends
2mid-6am Cocoa Chanelle

Saturday Jan. 1st
10am-3pm Dennis (Countdown)
3pm-7pm Monse (Countdown)
7pm-11pm Flex
11pm-12mid Bobby & Jabba
12mid-4am Big Ben
4am-6am Cocoa Chanelle

Sunday Jan. 2nd
10am-12pm DJ Absolut
12pm-3pm Big Ben
3pm-5pm Kay Slay
5pm-7pm Kast One
7pm-10pm Bobby Trends
10pm-12mid Bobby & Jabba
12mid-2am Rosenberg
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Thats what im talking bout! People always hate on HOT 97, but they still got dat swagg ;D
 
Finally Phoenix is getting active. We've gone from 0 to 3 stations all mixing so far...
Haven't checked out the classic hip hop, rhythmic oldies, or any of the latin rhythm stations yet, though..
 
B96 is already on FIRE! Dan Morrell is airing a pretty dancy "Best of 2010" mix! :)
 
Shawty, I checked out Hot 97 last night. They actually wasn't mixing. They were just playing music. No blending.

Like I said before, here in the DFW, 97.9 started mixing at 5pm, believe it or not, KRNB kicked off a commercial-free New Years Eve mix at 8pm, and Steve Nice is in rare form on K104. I will be posting airchecks of these mixes in the Aircheck group on Facebook for download so check them out.
 
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