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User Submitted 2025 All-Christmas Station List

Most country stations go all-Christmas for 24-48 hours starting now. Usually KXDD in Yakima does. Some Country stations air long-form holiday programming from syndication. The Westwood One country affiliates have also gone to Christmas music as of now.
And my favorite flip happened at midnight CT this morning...it's a Smooth Jazz Christmas on WSBZ The Seabreeze 106.3 in Fort Walton Beach. The Seabreeze WSBZ-FM 106.3 Smooth Jazz For The Emerald Coast – The Seabreeze

Meanwhile, KIBG 100.7 in Bigfork MT (Big 100) has gone to 48 hours of non-stop holiday programming, including the 12-hour Christmas Across the Lands show. Streaming as well.
 
Spinning around the East Coast 50KWers...
Mannheim Steamroller can be found tonight on WSB 750 and WHAS 840.

Christmas music on 830 WCCO with various programs through the end of 12/25, see here WCCO will present over 30+ hours of Christmas programming including Boone and Erickson, Dave Lee and more

WJR 760 has a different syndicated holiday program tonight. WLS 890 has a top 40 Christmas favorites show tonight. Sinatra & Friends Christmas on WPHT-1210 right now.

I salute EVERY news/talker that gives Hannity, Levin, Clay and Buck, etc. the day and night off. We can discuss politics any other time. Let's come together and celebrate the Christmas spirit.
 
WTIC 1080 in Hartford flipped at Noon Wednesday giving the political crap a break. Audacy.

WHCN 105.9 in Hartford flipped sometime between 2:45PM when I checked during my lunch break at work and tgey were playing their regular Classic Hits format and 4:30PM when my Mom says she noticed they were playing Chrustmas Music. iHesrt.

WWYZ 92.5 in Hartford flipped sometime Wednesday. They're the Country station. I don't know if They're exclusively Country Christmas or a mix. IHeart.

Surprisingly WICC 600/107.3 in Bridgeport and its simulcast partner WFOX 95.9 in Norwalk did not flip this year. The Connoisseur opened station usually flips on Christmas Eve. This going back several ownerships.
 
On the Philly board in mention that it seems none of the stations that play Christmas Music give any love to Boney M. It's rare that I hear any statio n playing "Mary's Boy Child." However this morning during the 6AM hour they played it on an obscure station 103.7/1150 WMRD. Middletown Connecticut and its simulcast partner 97.3/1420 WLIS Old Saybrook. I don't know their source for Christmas Music. WMRD/WLIS is owned by a former executive of CBS News named Don DeCesare. It's a real odd ball station with a mix of music and D list talk show host. Lots of specialty shows music and otherwise on the weekend including the syndicated "Nothing, but Old 45's" with Larry Kratka, an Elvis Show, and Island Bounce with Phillip Love. Previously they carried "Twlight Zone Radio" and The House of Blues hosted by Dan Aykroyd.
 
What's startling about Christmas radio in Phoenix this year is that *none* of the AM stations in the market flipped. (I can't vouch for the Spanish stations as I barely speak the language but I didn't hear chords to English Christmas music with Spanish lyrics sung anywhere in the Phoenix market this year.) Let's take a look by station owner:

IHeart. IHeart decided to put all of its Christmas eggs in one basket, that basket being the perennial KESZ. While in the past, say five or ten years ago, there would have been flips at country outlet KNIX and KFYI (which would run one of the syndicated holiday programs), this year none of those other flips occurred--KFYI remained nihilistic (conservative) talk and KNIX continued its regular format of Modern country. So, for IHeart, the only game in town was/is KESZ which heavily favored/favors Christmas AC.
Audacy. Unlike IHeart, Audacy decided to have twin Christmas baskets. First, its country station, KMLE flipped at 12 noon on Christmas Eve playing, you guessed it, Christmas country with a modern bent. At 6:00pm, KOOL-FM followed suit with a noncommercial blend of baby boomer and Generation X Christmas favorites. (For the record, this was my favorite of all of the Christmas flips in Phoenix.) I'm guessing that KMLE will switch back at noon today and KOOL will either switch back at noon, 6pm, or midnight. None of the other Audacy outlets did anything special for the holidays.
Hubbard. While I was thinking that KAZG might do all-Christmas this year (it was playing three Christmas songs per hour during the last two weeks before Christmas), that never occurred. In fact, the only Christmas special you heard on any of the Phoenix Hubbard outlets was Nights With Alice Cooper which played (mostly) rollicking Christmas rock and blues numbers between 7pm and midnight on Christmas Eve.
Bonneville. KTAR-FM was the only basket for Christmas that Bonneville had this year. It's now running the Manheim Steamroller-backed 20th anniversary of An American Christmas. In years past under different owners, the station has done prerecorded versions of A Christmas Carol with its announcers and local celebrities (Alice Cooper and his wife were featured one year) playing the various roles in the production but that appears to be gone now. The two sports stations remained all-sports throughout Christmas Eve and are not expected to do any Christmas Day specials.
Zelus. None of the stations owned by Zelus did any Christmas specials. I heard a single Christmas song on KZON (Cheech and Chong's "Santa Claus and His Old Lady,") on Christmas Eve but no additions. Over on oldies KOAI, I heard Kenny Loggins' "Celebrate Me Home," once and that was during the week after Thanksgiving.
Noncommercial. Both K-Love and Family Life Radio have been playing all-Christmas music since the day after Thanksgiving as well as Family Radio. KBAQ did play some classical Christmas compositions on Christmas Eve while KJZZ stuck with its regular programming schedule of BBC and NPR news for the holidays. Though 1310 is considered part of the commercial spectrum, Relevant Radio's KIHP is a noncommercial outlet that did a couple of midnight Catholic Masses with some religious Christmas music on Christmas Eve and is expected to do the same for Christmas Day. KIHP is the only Phoenix AM station doing any Christmas music whatsoever.
Salem. For an outlet that claims to be all about religion, neither of the two stations owned by the religious broadcaster played any Christmas music, either religious or secular. Possibly some of the ministers and talk-show hosts carried by the stations may have had special holiday messages but I can't stand to listen to these stations during their regular programming and was in no mood for listening to them now; ditto for non-Salem owned KXXT (religious) and KFNX (conservative talk).

Anyway, that's a run-down of the Phoenix Christmas radio dial from this curmudgeon. I'll close with the first four lines of the last verse from my favorite Christmas offering (which I never heard over the air this season), Greg Lake's "I Believe in Father Christmas,":

"I wish you a hopeful Christmas.
I wish you a brave New Year.
All anguish, pain and sadness
Leave your heart and let your road be clear."
 
MarcB said:
On the Philly board in mention that it seems none of the stations that play Christmas Music give any love to Boney M. It's rare that I hear any statio n playing "Mary's Boy Child." However this morning during the 6AM hour they played it on an obscure station 103.7/1150 WMRD. Middletown Connecticut and its simulcast partner 97.3/1420 WLIS Old Saybrook. I don't know their source for Christmas Music. WMRD/WLIS is owned by a former executive of CBS News named Don DeCesare. It's a real odd ball station with a mix of music and D list talk show host. Lots of specialty shows music and otherwise on the weekend including the syndicated "Nothing, but Old 45's" with Larry Kratka, an Elvis Show, and Island Bounce with Phillip Love. Previously they carried "Twlight Zone Radio" and The House of Blues hosted by Dan Aykroyd.
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House of Blues is still listed on the WLIS/WMRD schedule, guess it hasn't been updated in a long time:

What’s On Air – WLIS WMRD

wliswmrd.net wliswmrd.net
 
I can't ever remember this, but several iHeart all-Christmas stations have not yet flipped back to their Classic Hits/AC formats and are still in 100% holiday mode as of 10am EST on 12/26 including NYC, LA and Chicago. So far I see:

WLTW/New York
KOST/Los Angeles
WLIT/Chicago
WMJI/Cleveland
WNIC/Detroit
WODC/Columbus
KKCW/Portland

Others that have gone back to regular programming but are still sprinkling in some holiday hits. The only one I see that did the usual 12am holiday cutoff with zero holiday music was WWSW Pittsburgh.
 
Probably because it's a long weekend for a lot of workers. Be interesting to know if any non-stunters are still playing Christmas music on New Year's Eve/New Year's Day.
KDKK Park Rapids MN is still playing non-stop Christmas music. And so is KMGK in Glenwood.
 
Not sure when it flipped. Swick Broadcasting WLKI HD3 92.7 Angola went all Christmas and still is 12/26. Also Throwback Nation Y2K is no longer listed on the website.
 
The following stations were still All Christmas based on my listening as of 12/27 evening:
93.9 WDOR Sturgeon Bay, WI
Lite 96 (96.3 WLXT Petoskey, MI and 96.7 WLXV Cadillac, MI) - WLXV flipped from country when WLXT (former simulcast partner) went All Christmas back in November as WLXT lost its tower site during the big ice storm in the spring; WLXV's RDS is still static "The Bull"
98.9 WEMP Two Rivers, WI
The Promise FM (91.1 WOLW Cadillac, MI, 105.5 WSRJ Honor, MI, and others)
 


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