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Who will do X-mas this year?

I am not being a Scrooge here BUT...according to Alex, Christmas Music will start in the Triad on 11/16. When a Radio Station chooses a format, are they just allowed to change it for 6 or so weeks ??? Let's take it to other extremes, let's change the format monthly, weekly, daily!! ;) ;)

I know... WOUR-FM "This is OUR Station, screw the FCC, We will play whatever the hell we want!"
 
The FCC has no control over formats. A station owner can play anything he wants and change as often as he (or she if we are being PC) wants. The FCC is concerned primarily with technical issues. About the only content issue they deal with is the "seven words" and then it is usually only when there is a complaint.
 
;D ;DDang, I want the Christmas Music NOW.... Let me talk to Gig and Bob..Maybe they can start tomorrow..Hell, How about in a few minutes! Giggggggggggg!!!!!!!!(Hollering out back)
 
Stuart Greenberg said:
Ape,
Could you also request some "Valentine's Day" Love Songs? :-* :-*
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Isn't that Delilah's job?

Speaking of which does Delilah do all Christmas since most of her AC stations play all-Christmas?
 
It has been my experience as a listener, some stations will run the "normal" Delilah Show. Some will suspend the show until after the holidays. I guess it depends on the contract??

fyi... Delilah just signed a book contract ;)
 
I'm pretty sure Delilah has an alternate Christmas feed that runs during that time of the year. A station can choose to take one or the other. Didn't she start it a couple years ago?
 
That is correct...Delilah has an alternate Christmas-only feed that affiliates can run if they choose, on a separate sat channel. Since the show is completely voice-tracked, it's pretty simple for the syndicator to set up the separate feeds.
 
Since we are briefly on the topic of Delilah. I have noticed she does not say the name of the song. Does this mean the radio station can put a song "in" after she says something like "I'll play this to help you feel better"??... or
does she add the song depending on her feeling, or what she has to play, etc...? ???
 
Stuart Greenberg said:
Since we are briefly on the topic of Delilah. I have noticed she does not say the name of the song. Does this mean the radio station can put a song "in" after she says something like "I'll play this to help you feel better"??... or
does she add the song depending on her feeling, or what she has to play, etc...? ???
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Another thing I have noticed concerning Delilah: When a song plays during her show, the RDS radio display does not flash the name of the song; it merely shows the name of the affiliate station (i.e. "99.5WMAG" or "SUNNY" when 93.9 was still WRSN and carried Delilah). The same thing happens on "Wake Up With Whoopi" when they play a song as opposed to when the affiliate station plays a song and then cuts back to the show.
 
berlin201 said:
Another thing I have noticed concerning Delilah: When a song plays during her show, the RDS radio display does not flash the name of the song; it merely shows the name of the affiliate station (i.e. "99.5WMAG" or "SUNNY" when 93.9 was still WRSN and carried Delilah). The same thing happens on "Wake Up With Whoopi" when they play a song as opposed to when the affiliate station plays a song and then cuts back to the show.
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Berlin201... the reason the song info doesn't come up on RDS is because the entire show is fed down from the bird. RDS generators in the engineering room (or wherever they are kept) get all the info they transmit from the computer system (NexGen, Scott Studios, etc...). They rotate... ARTIST - TITLE - NAME OF STATION. That info is not fed for syndie shows that I am aware of. So the RDS defaults to the basic info... just like when commercials are playing.

As to the original topic of this thread? Triad - MAG will go when they need to. Everything is basically ready to go (imaging and music)... they could flip tomorrow if they wanted to. :) As for Magic/Majic.. I would think they would want to stick to oldies/classic hits because they are so new - ie still building an image and a core audience... but an occasional 'holiday' tune wouldn't hurt. Triangle... that's anybody's guess.

And somebody mentioned this earlier in the thread. Xmas music is ridiculously huge. The arb numbers that it generates in Nov/Dec is just stupid. I personally don't get it... I don't think anybody in radio understands it... but you go where the numbers (listeners) are.
 
Mix 101.5 may just as well jump on the all-Christmas format, they are really the only station left in the triangle that caters to the suburbanite soccer moms. In just scanning the dial, you can hear the James Taylor-Rod Stewart-Celine Dion-Air Supply ??? mix at any certain time.

And, if a choice between Air Supply and the Chipmunks Christmas song, I say, "GO ALVIN". ;D
 
You know, playing Christmas music before Thanksgiving is just pure greed. They'll wind up burning folks out and then what? The place I get my hair cut plays WMAG and the women who work there all get so sick of the Christmas music they could scream. They told me they don't have anything they can really change to....but then that was last year. There are more choices this year.
 
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