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Who Will Flip to All-Christmas and When this Year?

almaniac27 said:
CleveRadioInsider said:
What about Halloween music? We can start that after Labor Day and then after Halloween is move right into Christmas music? Although is there enough Halloween music to go 24 hours straight?
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As someone who's worked in an amusement park during October, you'd be surprised. Just play a bunch of classic rock songs with vaguely Halloween-related lyrics (Witchy Woman, Superstitious, Spooky, I Put a Spell on You, Psycho Killer, Season of the Witch), then add in your classic Monster Mash, Purple People Eater, Time Warp, Ghostbusters, etc. and you've got something you can throw on the air for a few hours Halloween night. I've even heard "Clap For the Wolfman" at work even though that song is about Wolfman Jack, not the mythical creature.
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Exactly what I was trying to get at, with all that, can come up with a good 200 or or more songs, I think a radio station can pull that off for a week, or at least weekend. Tougher this year as Halloween is in the middle of the week. Then there's the 60's tragedy songs, as well as the spooky ones like Laurie-Strange Things Happen by Dicky Lee, I Want My Baby Back by Jimmy Cross, Jack The Ripper by the One Way Streets, Torture by Kris Jensen, Haunted House by Gene Simmons, Haunted Castle by the Kingsmen, and so on. Some spooky sound effects. An occasional spoken word scary piece like The Dentist or The Dark by Arch Oboler, even Bill Cosby had some spooky short stories. Disney's "Your Pet Cat".
 
I predict the first to flip will be WMJI/Majic 105.7.

Isn't Christmas music a Premium Choice (cat litter) feed that comes from the Kremlin in San Antonio?

This way they can voicetrack everything all day long (in addition to Action Jackson)!

Anyone notice they flipped their webcam to show the news booth so you can't see that Mark Nolan is NOT in the studio?!?!
 
zephar70 said:
I predict the first to flip will be WMJI/Majic 105.7.

Isn't Christmas music a Premium Choice (cat litter) feed that comes from the Kremlin in San Antonio?

This way they can voicetrack everything all day long (in addition to Action Jackson)!

Anyone notice they flipped their webcam to show the news booth so you can't see that Mark Nolan is NOT in the studio?!?!
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Didn't Nolan have a studio set up in his house when he was the weeknight weatherman on channel 3, and provided live forecasts during the Lanigan and Malone Show a few years back?

If he still has all that equipment set up in his house, why not use it?

Tom Kent does his show from his basement, so why shouldn't Nolan be allowed to use equipment he already has to do his show from home and not have to change out of his jammies?
 
static_cling said:
WHOF/101.7 is promoting the upcoming flip. They've been airing promos for at least a week.
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I remember flipping between WMJI and WHOF last year and hearing the same exact playlist. Gotta love that Premium Choice. ;)
 
I have nothing against Christmas music...but 24/7...with the same songs repeated every hour....FOR TWO MONTHS!!!! it's only done to get people in the holiday spirit,to participate and spend themselves into debt. One my show i'll throw in a rockin Christmas song here and there, but 24/7, with the same horrible depressing songs, no way.
 
I remember WMJI in the 90s had the best Christmas programming. The Christmas playlist was rock and rhythm & blues oriented. While it featured the usual suspects ("Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree", "Jingle Bell Rock", etc) they also played Christmas material by James Brown, Bob Seger, Fats Domino, Paul Revere and The Raiders, etc. It was a long playlist and it was great.

The last several years, they simply switched to the Clear Channel generic, national Christmas feed, which not only is a limited selection, it is heavy on bland AC stuff like Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Air Supply and the usual Andy Williams-type material.

Yuck.
 
I remember WMMS back in the next-gen days used to mix in alternative rock Christmas songs with their normal music, was pretty cool. WBWC does the same thing nowadays. Not a fan of the 24/7 Christmas songs over and over and over again, but apparently it makes money so who am I to argue...
 
It's official... WMJI will flip to all-Christmas, and on their website, they're encouraging listeners to vote on when they make the flip...
 
Start it now to agitate people that can't figure out how to put on a different station or a CD instead but would rather complain about Christmas music instead ;D
 
WMJI mid-late 90s under John Gorman and Denny Sanders was hitting on all pistons. The Xmas programming was outstanding. Music Director Tom Hunt was the best in the market then. Xmas vignettes like "Tracking Santa Claus", that was then Creative Director Doc Thompson's idea that ran for a number of years, just one of the many things that made the station stand out from the rest.
 
In all seriousness I don't care if they start Christmas music tomorrow or on December 24th at 6pm. The reaction when they start it this early is far more entertaining to me than the music. So many adults going absolutely crazy it quite comical. People are posting on the stations website claiming they will never listen to the station again. This post isn't for the majority of the regulars here but those posters. Relax people. Don't like Christmas music? Put a CD in, listen to your IPOD, switch stations, or get XM/Sirius. :)
 
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