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Z100 24 Hours of Christmas Question

J

Joeybombstyle

I have what maybe an impossible ask but I'm trying to track down a list (or ultimate pipedream an aircheck) of what was played on Z100's 24 Hours of Christmas during it's original run between 83-91. My understanding is they used a list of 125 songs that were repeated during the 24 hours and I'm sure that slightly changed over the 8 year period but would love to just have a starting point. Any ideas where I might be able to obtain something like this? An aircheck would be incredible but I would just be happy with a song list.
 
Hard to imagine that a Top 40 station would play 24 hours of all-Christmas music from Christmas Eve to Christmas Day. Did it go from noon to noon? Or did it start at 10 a.m. after the Z Morning Zoo until 10 a.m. on Dec. 25? I'd guess it was Scott Shannon who set it up.

I can also remember when WABC was Top 40. It went with all Christmas music at 6 p.m. Dec. 24 and wrapped up at either 10 a.m. or noon on Dec. 25. At that point, it began seven days of The Top 100 Songs of the Year.
 
Z100's 24 hours of Christmas was from Noon Christmas Eve to Noon Christmas Day. I think they also had a special 6-hour Z Morning Zoo on Christmas Eve before the 24 hour block.
 
Gregg. said:
Hard to imagine that a Top 40 station would play 24 hours of all-Christmas music from Christmas Eve to Christmas Day. Did it go from noon to noon? Or did it start at 10 a.m. after the Z Morning Zoo until 10 a.m. on Dec. 25? I'd guess it was Scott Shannon who set it up.

I can also remember when WABC was Top 40. It went with all Christmas music at 6 p.m. Dec. 24 and wrapped up at either 10 a.m. or noon on Dec. 25. At that point, it began seven days of The Top 100 Songs of the Year
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It was totally a Scott Shannon thing. After he went to WPLJ they implemented something similar and Z100 stopped theirs until 1997. Don't know much about the details of the WPLJ programming as I was heavily into my anti top 40 phase by that point oh adolescence in the 90s :). And I'm pretty sure it was noon to noon but it's been 40 years so I maybe wrong.
 
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Gregg. said:
Hard to imagine that a Top 40 station would play 24 hours of all-Christmas music from Christmas Eve to Christmas Day. Did it go from noon to noon? Or did it start at 10 a.m. after the Z Morning Zoo until 10 a.m. on Dec. 25? I'd guess it was Scott Shannon who set it up.
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If I remember correctly, the Z Morning Zoo was extended until noon, and then Z100 went all-Christmas for 24 hours.
 
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