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Will there be Christmas this year on the radio.

Raccoonradio commented: said:
Maybe later this week. There's been a little pushback from people along the lines of hey let us get to Thanksgiving before you shove Christmas at us...
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Thanksgiving never occurs on the same date each year. It's always on the fourth Thursday in November.

This year (2012), it's on November 22nd, the earliest date it could possibly be.

Next year (2013), it will be on November 28th, the latest possible date it could fall on.

Retailers this year love the fact that the traditional "Christmas shopping season" (from the day after Thanksgiving through Christmas Eve) will be 32 days, the longest it can possibly be. Next year, that period will be just 26 days, the shortest it can possibly be.
 
ssetta said:
WSRS just flipped.
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Yup, heard Christmas tunes while scanning on the drive home tonight. Stayed long enough to figure out that they weren't just playing 2 or 3 Christmas tunes and then going back to regular format..although the first one I happened to hear was the infantile Thanksgiving song from Adam Sandler. WSRS has Delilah at night, I'm guessing her progrramming is now all Christmas so they wanted to match her.
 
As may have been mentioned WHOM 94.9 which I can get on the North Shore went Christmas today and at 12:30 I heard Allan Sherman's 12 Gifts of Christmas--and a Japanese transistor radio.
 
WMC2006 said:
... the infantile Thanksgiving song from Adam Sandler...
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You know, for such "infantile" songs devoted to Hanukkah and Thanksgiving, Sandler sure knows how to fill a void, doesn't he?
 
Im sick and tired of hearing no christmas music Im starting to think that there will be no christmas music this year or it would have happend by now i hope WROR flips by friday cause every other station has.
 
Mattcatlover456 said:
Im sick and tired of hearing no christmas music Im starting to think that there will be no christmas music this year or it would have happend by now i hope WROR flips by friday cause every other station has.
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I'm thinking not. There's no reason to rush this year because there's no station to compete with this year. Also, I would think that when and if they do flip, it would be with Loren and Wally at 5:30 or 6am. I can't recall if L&O normally take the day after Thanksgiving off but I think they do which means no flipping Friday morning.

I'd say they start sprinkling in some Christmas music on weekends in early December, then the overall flip will be with L&O the day after Barry Scott's annual Lost 45s Christmas show which is usually mid-December, I think. Previously, when WODS flipped, all regular programming, including Lost 45s, got dumped for several weeks (although Barry streams online anyway). This year, Barry just might lead off the whole thing with his show. Maybe Barry will give us some insight since he posts here semi-regularly. ;D

Meanwhile, for your Christmas fix, check out Worcester's WSRS (96.1), they flipped earlier in the week.
 
@bostonradio notes WMJX is doing 4 Christmas songs per hour now, maybe typical for them but he wonders if they may be the ones to flip this year.

>>There's no reason to rush this year because there's no station to compete with this year.

Winner winner turkey dinner. Good point!

As for sick of hearing NO Christmas music maybe you will get your wish soon and if not go into
stores (incl. convenience stores at Hess stations). You'll get plenty. (or go to XM Sirius if you have it. or try 96.1, 105.1, 94.9...)
 
Nowcalifornia gurls by katy perry
12:05i don't want to miss a thing by aerosmith
12:01do you hear what i hear by whitney houston
11:58tonight tonight by hot chelle rae
11:54come on get higher by matt

That's the most recent 5 songs played on Magic 106.7. Only 1 Christmas song there so they are apparently sprinkling them in throughout the hour as opposed to playing all 4 in a row or 2 in a row twice per hour.
 
yes... @bostonradio's tweets
>>Around 6:30 this AM, 106.7 started spinning 3 or 4 X-mas tracks an hour.That's their standard MO b/n T-giving & X-mas.

>>Heard Magic 106.7 playing Boss' Santa Claus is Coming to Town 20 minutes ago.105.7 could be passing the baton over to 106.7?

>>everyone in Boston metro should be able bring in 96.1 on a car tuner.

>>Yea, GM got a new Boston market manager 10 months ago and no 103.3 so perhaps change in Xmas music strategy/signal. Will know soon.
 
Ok kiddies it's baaaaaaaaaaaack...sort of. WROR is now playing 4 Christmas songs an hour. Don't know when it started but I went to bed about midnight and all was fine. I just happened to wake up about 2:45am and heard Jose Feliciano and Feliz Navidad. 4 songs an hour is ok until you realize that 15 minutes goes by really quickly.
 
ssetta said:
Mike said:
boston and atlanta are 2 cities without all christmas music
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That's not true. There's a station in Atlanta called The Fish, which just flipped, according to a thread on here.
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Wrong board for this but it appears Joy FM 93.3 in ATL is also Christmas so ATL has "2" stations.
 
Actually, I just noticed both Atlanta stations doing it are Christian stations, which is totally different from any other format.
 
ssetta said:
Actually, I just noticed both Atlanta stations doing it are Christian stations, which is totally different from any other format.
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I'd imagine they're not playing any songs about frozen precipitation, reindeer, trees, comic strip dogs and World War I flying aces, meeting one's old lover at a grocery store and draining a six-pack in a car, or any of the other "seasonal" perennials you'll be hearing over the next few weeks at WROR. I'm still amazed that CBS has turned its back on what was an annual advertising windfall just because it doesn't have a property with what industry experts say is a format that can be flipped for Christmas. Just boggles the mind.
 
Who knows maybe this weekend. Some traditional times are early in the morning or about 4 or 5 pm
on a Fri or the day before Thanksgiving. I check the WROR website every now and then. It looks
pretty Christmas-influenced already. Win Santa's Money, promos for Grinch musical and Trans
Siberian Orch holiday show,
but:

now playing
"Cherry Bomb" By John Mellencamp
 
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