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'Twas the Day After Christmas

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'TWAS THE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS

'Twas the day after Christmas and all through the dial,
Not a carol was playing, to make us all smile.
With rock, AC, country, oldies, and rap,
Every station was playing its usual crap.
We're still visiting family and friends to spread cheer,
But the radio folk all deserve a huge jeer.
For the PDs all think Christmas starts in November,
And ends 12:01 the 26th of December.
So if Christmas is still part of your celebration,
Turn your radios off all across this great nation.
Time for records, CDs, and tapes, I believe,
To give us all a much-needed reprieve,
From a premature onset of the post-holiday blahs,
That is caused by the PDs who all live in Oz.
Phase the Christmas tunes out,
Don't just cut them off cold.
Out in radio land,
Is this idea too bold?
Give us tunes for this holiday that we all hold so dear,
Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good year!
 
I'll bet you also think Labor Day isn't too early
to start having Christmas sales. And you take
down your lights at the beginning of hurricane
season.

I'd say five weeks of holiday music on radio
is about four weeks too much. I hear all I need
when I'm shopping. I really enjoy my CDs right now.

<P ID="signature">______________
Just posted: <A href='http://www.univox.com/radio/2005december.html'>
December Edition, South Florida Radio News</A> ... from 954</P>
 
I'm pretty burned out on Christmas tunes by now and ready for them to go away. I'm aware of some stations in the past that ran some Christmas tunes through New Years. <P ID="signature">______________
Classic Christmas Jingle

http://www.thebig8.net/merry_christmas_from_cklw.mp3</P>
 
> I'll bet you also think Labor Day isn't too early
> to start having Christmas sales. And you take
> down your lights at the beginning of hurricane
> season.

No, I just believe that Christmas music should be played during the Christmas season, which includes the period between Christmas and the Feast of the Epiphany (when the gifts were brought to the Christ child). If you celebrate Christmas, do you take your tree and decorations down on December 26? Why shouldn't we have Christmas music on the radio then, since it is in the middle of the Christmas season?

My gripe with the radio stations is that they saturate the airwaves with Christmas music long before the Christmas season starts. We really don't need to hear it on the day after Halloween! Then they cut this music off abruptly while we are still visiting friends and relatives between Christmas and New Year's Day.

Some stations are even worse. Last year, WCBS-FM in New York abruptly switched back to its normal format at 6 PM on Christmas Day! I was having dinner with some relatives in that area then. When the Christmas tunes disappeared, the radio was immediately switched to a station that was still playing them.

To their credit, there are several stations here in the Northeast that were still mixing Christmas music into their formats between Christmas and New Year's: WSNI, Philadelphia; WLTW, New York; and WNAK-AM/FM, Nanticoke, PA.

There's only one good thing about this abrupt disappearance of Christmas music. At least I won't have to hear "Christmas Shoes" for another 11 months!
 
Well, Labor Day is a scant week away.

Can the first all-Xmas-music-all-the-time station be far behind?

Ho-ho-ho!

73s
 
gr8oldies said:
Why is this old thread here?
Click to expand...

It's an early-season place-holder for the: "Holiday Season" is a Godless assault on Christianity thread whose renovation for 2006 is not yet complete!

Patience....

Patience............
 
AKLes said:
gr8oldies said:
Why is this old thread here?
Click to expand...

It's an early-season place-holder for the: "Holiday Season" is a Godless assault on Christianity thread whose renovation for 2006 is not yet complete!
Click to expand...

Oh boy! Another creative fiction thread!
 
954 said:
Oh boy! Another creative fiction thread!
Click to expand...

Fearlessly enticing Liberal and Conservative alike into a renewed shouting match!

Kinda like seeing a puddle in the gutter and tossing matches into it in hopes it might be gasoline rather than urine.
 
AKLes said:
954 said:
Oh boy! Another creative fiction thread!
Click to expand...

Fearlessly enticing Liberal and Conservative alike into a renewed shouting match!
Kinda like seeing a puddle in the gutter and tossing matches into it in hopes it might be gasoline rather than urine.
Click to expand...

Hee hee hee.

I heard about a "Christmas in August" event last week.
(I always thought "Christmas in July" was the cliche.

Just in keeping with the non-holiday spirit. It's almost Labor Day.
Fall equinox is a month away.
Can holiday season be far behind?

Around here, xmas stuff starts filling the store shelves when
they mark down halloween stuff. If not before.

73s
 
954 said:
Just in keeping with the non-holiday spirit. It's almost Labor Day.
Click to expand...

Hospitals in Los Angeles are gearing up for the obstetric onslaught.
As are Immigration & Naturalization Service offices nationwide.
 
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