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Still all-Christmas after Christmas

There are a few "Christmas" songs that can be played after Christmas. "Winter Wonderland" and "Baby, It's Cold Outside" are among those. Even those are not explicitly Christmas songs (which is why I had it in quotation marks). There's something strange about hearing "Here Comes Santa Claus" after Christmas.
 
Let it snow, hark the herald angels sing, & of course the true Christmas carols would be suitable for after 12/25. Most secular Christmas songs should be retired. Did Frosty the snowman get mentioned?


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It is difficult for me to reconcile this with my early experiences in programming. In 1978, we got calls from listeners wanting to know why we were still playing Christmas music at 2:00 in the afternoon on the 25th. That same year, we agonized over how soon after Thanksgiving we could start playing one song every other hour.

Now, if you aren't wall-to-wall Christmas tunes by the day after Thanksgiving, you've missed the boat ... and we practically start on Halloween night with it. And now we have all kinds of theories being floated that religious concerns are the reason a handful of stations stayed with the Christmas format through the weekend.

I'm going to give you my very, very simple theory about why this is happening: A lot of people were off on the 26th, making this a long weekend for them. That sets up a state of mind which is receptive to hearing Christmas music through Sunday the 28th. It's nothing sinister or faith-based ... it's just that when Christmas gave you the opportunity for a four-day weekend you tend to think of the whole weekend as being the holiday.

I predict the same thing will happen in 2015, when Christmas falls on Friday and some stations will stay with the holiday music through Sunday the 27th.
 
anotherguy said:
Concerning stations still playing Christmas music, WDVW (soon to be WHPP) 105.3 in Humboldt/Jackson, TN was still playing Christmas music today. They're changing formats on Jan.1 to Hippie Radio (60's and 70's oldies) and they're all automated now, so it won't surprise me if they stay with Christmas music until the format change, but they could go back to AC CCM or a few days.
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WDVW stayed with automated Christmas Music until Midnight tonight and then flipped to WHPP Hippie Radio.
 
golden eagles97 said:
There are a few "Christmas" songs that can be played after Christmas. "Winter Wonderland" and "Baby, It's Cold Outside" are among those. Even those are not explicitly Christmas songs (which is why I had it in quotation marks). There's something strange about hearing "Here Comes Santa Claus" after Christmas.
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Maybe someone should write a song, "There Goes Santa Claus" to be played after the 25th.
 
Although it's TV related the Hallmark Channel is still showing Christmas movies today after the Rose Parade on till 10 p.m. Eastern Time and Hallmark Movies and Mysteries was showing Christmas movies until yesterday.
 
anotherguy said:
The Methodist church I used to attend keeps the decorations up and doing Christmas music until Epiphany.
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That's what we're doing. I've helped decorate and take decorations down the past several years, so I'm hoping they just haven't let me know yet, but if we continue to do the same as previous years, that'll happen next week.

BBN has some Christmas music. Years ago they were all Christmas through December.
 
K.M. Richards said:
I'm going to give you my very, very simple theory about why this is happening: A lot of people were off on the 26th, making this a long weekend for them. That sets up a state of mind which is receptive to hearing Christmas music through Sunday the 28th.
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I wish more of my family had been off. Maybe we'll be able to celebrate earlier in the day next year.

But everyone who goes somewhere else does it on the big day, so the only celebration I get is on the 26th. it just doesn't seem right, then, not to have the music on the radio.
 
In 2013, not one but TWO HD2 stations kept playing Christmas music until March. A classic example of not paying attention to the HD. Both stations were in major markets.
 
More Christmas movies: TBS showed Surviving Christmas and Love Actually earlier today and they are repeating them again tonight.
 
I haven't seen it yet but I'm expecting some network to show either Home Alone or National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation in January. It usually happens every year. :rolleyes:
 
It's still legal until Wednesday. If you're Orthodox.

My church still hasn't taken down its tree or other deocrations but I'm supposed to get a call when they're ready to take them down. We sang "The First Noel", which I thought was strange, but four of the five verses are about The Wise Men. Wednesday is considered Epiphany, which is when they came. We also sang "We Three Kings", which is definitely all right, and the choir sang "What Child Is This", which ahs a verse about those first Christmas gifts.

I haven't checked to see if these songs are still on BBN.
 
I was thinking today that about 10 years ago WAJJ 89.3 in McKenzie TN played automated Christmas music for several days into January because their owners had basically given up on the station, which was doing a CCM format at the time and they were in the process of trying to sell it, so they really didn't care that they were running Christmas music longer than most other stations. in a few more months they started being off more often than they were on until they were sold to the current owners, a King James only anti - CCM group. But that's a whole other story. :(
 
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vchimpanzee said:
It's still legal until Wednesday. If you're Orthodox.

My church still hasn't taken down its tree or other deocrations but I'm supposed to get a call when they're ready to take them down. We sang "The First Noel", which I thought was strange, but four of the five verses are about The Wise Men. Wednesday is considered Epiphany, which is when they came. We also sang "We Three Kings", which is definitely all right, and the choir sang "What Child Is This", which ahs a verse about those first Christmas gifts.

I haven't checked to see if these songs are still on BBN.
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At my church the decorations were still up although they announced they were taking them down after the worship service, and there was no Christmas music, only a few comments about getting back to normal after Christmas.
 
"Getting back to normal after Christmas".

Today is Eastern Orthodox Christmas, or, perhaps if you prefer, Epiphany, a day of obligation.
 
I don't know why I thought it was Wednesday. Then I had a malware problem, or at least that's what someone told me. In the process of investigating, I found out it was indeed Orthodox Christmas on Wednesday in some countries.

We did get together and take down the deocrations at my church yesterday.
 
Now in the correct thread... :rolleyes:

Not on the radio, but a local convenience store I go to still has Christmas music playing along with ads for the store on their audio system.
 
I got my answer about January 20. According to a woman whose recent Holy Land experiences were in today's paper that was Armenian Christmas.
 
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