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WRVR Christmas Already

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Before Thanksgiving, I guess if Walmart does it before Halloween why no them
 
But NOT wall to wall yet, right?
SURELY they haven't started THAT already!?
When I just did Solid Gold Sunday there...it STILL killed me when they went all Christmas at Thanksgiving.
It was bad enough being in the building later when they did it for so long.
 
When I was an on-air jock (all those years ago) playing Christmas muisc was like ... radiation.

Taken in small doses, it's benificial. But too much could kill you.

I think this falls into latter catagory.



Yeah I'm a Grinch ... so what?
 
Omigod! Wall to wall Christmas music, what?, like 45 days before Christmas????????????
I bet those are some on-air folks who will HAAAAAAAAAAAAATE some Christmas music by Christmas eve.
RVR used to start it around Thanksgiving when I was in the building...and we wanted to KICK Vince in his Valients well before it stopped! This is only worse.
Can you say "Overkill?"
I still throw up a little when I hear A Celine Dion Christmas tune.
And while I'm at it...what's the deal with Neil Diamond and Barbara Striesand and all their "Christmas" music?
They're JEWISH for cryin' out loud!

7 weeks of "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer?" "The restroom door said Gentlemen?"
and of course the damn Brickman "Christmas in Memphis!" Geez.... The full-timers at RVR might pay us to shoot them in a couple of weeks!
 
I couldn't resist this...sorry.

If a full-time jock does a 4 hour shift Monday-Friday, that's going to be about 21 shifts between now and Christmas.
That is about 84 Hours of constant Christmas Music.
That's 5,040 Minutes of Christmas Music.
At 3 minutes per song...that'd be about 1,680 Christmas songs played per jock.
(Do you suppose there will be any repeats?)

Ouch....that'll bring out the "Grinch" in anybody. ;D
 
By contrast, I recall my first year at WHBQ. We played ZERO Christmas songs. Sometime during the John Long years we also had a contest to count how many times we played "Money" by Pink Floyd one weekend. ZERO would have been the correct answer that time, too.
 
Whether we like it or not...We've all seen 'RVR's number shoot through the roof when they start that holiday music marathon..It's a niche in the market for this time of year..Listeners have been known to eat it up.
 
jb321 said:
Whether we like it or not...We've all seen 'RVR's number shoot through the roof when they start that holiday music marathon..It's a niche in the market for this time of year..Listeners have been known to eat it up.
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People followed Hitler too. ;D
 
www.stuffwhitepeoplelike.com
#5 "Comparing People to Hitler"

It was inevitable. Someone was going to relate Christmas (or the listeners general enjoyment to listening to Holiday music) to Hitler.

This board has officially Jumped The Shark.
 
Oddly enough, as I was putting Christmas decorations back in the attic, I knocked over a box and an old WMPS memo fell out (from the 68WMPS days, kids) dated 12/9/1977. Among other things, it detailed a Salvation Army promotion which entailed an on-the-air marathon broadcasting live 24-7 from a store front at 93 North Main. I did about 23 hours straight (seems like there wasn't any heat, and it was really cold). The jock who stayed on longest won a week at the luxurious Plough Broadcasting condo in Tampa. Jennifer Fox won with 24.

Another item was the annual "integration of Christmas music into the regular rotation". The week of December 12th we were to add one song hourly, two per hour the next week, four the following, and all Christmas the 24th.
 
robgrayson said:
Another item was the annual "integration of Christmas music into the regular rotation". The week of December 12th we were to add one song hourly, two per hour the next week, four the following, and all Christmas the 24th.
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That's the way I remember doing it, too. If only it were still that way! :'(
 
10-4! me too!
 
While driving north a little ways to spend Christmas family, I was scanning across the dial trying to find Christmas music. I hit a local station along the way that was running a syndicated show "A Country Christmas" with Big & Rich (or some other country artist). It was Christmas music allright, but mostly all original stuff from country artists. That's not exactly what I was wanting to hear. Christmas music that shouldn't be pigeonholed and restricted to just one genre. I was looking for something more traditional.....some of the old standbys and couldn't find it. I found myself wishing that I had carried with me a Christmas CD that a freind had recorded himself at home and given me as a gift.
 
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