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James

11-11-2005, 11:59 PM

Cincinnati radio station WVMX "Mix" 94.1 recently started playing Christmas music, which I expect to last for the next month and a half. 'Tis the season! Have any others?

:tree:

gilligan fanatic

11-12-2005, 10:24 AM

99.5 in Colonial Beach VA starts the day after Thanksgiving. I can't wait

musicradio77

11-12-2005, 12:37 PM

Here are a lists of stations that are playing Christmas music:

1. WCZX 97.7 - Poughkeepsie
2. WRNQ 92.1 - WFKP 99.3 (Lite FM) - Poughkeepsie/Ellenville 98.5, one of the Lite stations didn't have an all-Christmas station until Thanksgiving. Will see.
3. WKLI 100.9 - Albany

Here are a lists of stations that it will go all-Christmas by Thanksgiving:

1. WLTW 106.7 (Lite-FM) - New York
2. WALK 97.5 - Long Island

phoebe7165

11-14-2005, 02:18 AM

Karen*

11-15-2005, 12:40 AM

96.5 KOIT in San Francisco has already started playing Christmas music, and it will continue to play until around the first two weeks of 2006! :woohoo:

Steve M.

11-21-2005, 11:54 AM

Christmas music before Thanksgiving? IT'S TOO EARLY!!! :mad:

tv star collector

11-21-2005, 06:01 PM

I was in Charlotte, NC a couple years ago on Nov.1st and one of the stations had already started playing Christmas music. None of our stations in the Orlando area have started yet, but I can't wait until they do because I love Christmas music!! They'll probably start the day after Thanksgiving like alot of others. When I travel all over the country, I love being able to pick up different stations playing Christmas music.
I noticed today that 102.9 in Charlotte, N.C., was already playing Christmas
music. I'm not sure when they started, though. It doesn't bother me; it helps
to get me in the mood. I think, though, they should at least wait until the day
after Thanksgiving Day. But that's just my opinion.

Stormtracker TF

11-21-2005, 10:37 PM

100.3 WNIC is already playing Christmas music here. Started the day after Halloween. I'm one of the people who doesnt wanna listen to Christmas tunes until after Thanksgiving, so its not really a good thing in my opinion.

phoebe7165

11-21-2005, 10:54 PM

I noticed today that 102.9 in Charlotte, N.C., was already playing Christmas
music. I'm not sure when they started, though. It doesn't bother me; it helps
to get me in the mood. I think, though, they should at least wait until the day
after Thanksgiving Day. But that's just my opinion.

Stations in Orlando stil haven't started their Christmas music but one of our stations did do a "Jingle Block" today.

I just went through Charlotte last Wed. and picked up 102.9. Then I was in Columbus, OH, got another Christmas station, then I was near Buffalo, NY, got another station. Then heading south got a station in Richmond, VA, Charleston, SC, and Savannah, GA. The whole idea of the Christmas season starting so early bothers me but not the Christmas music. It puts me in a better mood.

James

11-10-2007, 05:37 PM

I guess I'll resurrect this thread. Today at 11:30 on WLQT "Lite" 99.9 I heard "Christmas in Dixie" by Alabama as a teaser since Christmas songs are right now played sporadically, like once every three hours. On Thursday they go "all Christmas all the time."

Ireneparalegal

11-11-2007, 01:09 AM

I love Christmas music...BUT NOT SO DAMN EARLY.

EmoJoe

11-11-2007, 01:32 AM

^agreed. i cant listen to Christmas music until the day after Thanksgiving.

Stormtracker TF

11-11-2007, 01:39 AM

Cactus Jack

11-11-2007, 01:42 AM

^agreed. i cant listen to Christmas music until the day after Thanksgiving.
Ill third that :lol:

coffield3

11-11-2007, 05:18 AM

I love Christmas music...BUT NOT SO DAMN EARLY.

:lol: It spoilts the spirit of it, i always like to dust my own christmas albums out and enjoy them when its closer by, instead of radio killing the mood playing them over and over again! :lol:

ABlairican Pie

11-11-2007, 12:44 PM

Christmas music before Thanksgiving? IT'S TOO EARLY!!! :mad:Exactly!! Just right after Halloween and before Thanksgiving is WRONG.
I guess it just means that people play it to death after that because it's a commercial seller, something to promote sales and stimulate revenue.
:rolleyes: Commercialization of Christ, anybody?

And what I really HATE about hearing Christmas songs during this time is that they play those SICKENINGLY corny "smooooooth jazz" :cow: versions of Christmas carols and hymns. That and something completely incongruous with it like bluegrass Christmas songs. Just doesn't fit. I guess this disco/r & b takes on Christmas is all for people who enjoy boogieing before the Manger. ohno:

Ireneparalegal

11-11-2007, 07:12 PM

Exactly!! Just right after Halloween and before Thanksgiving is WRONG.
I guess it just means that people play it to death after that because it's a commercial seller, something to promote sales and stimulate revenue.
:rolleyes: Commercialization of Christ, anybody?

And what I really HATE about hearing Christmas songs during this time is that they play those SICKENINGLY corny "smooooooth jazz" :cow: versions of Christmas carols and hymns. That and something completely incongruous with it like bluegrass Christmas songs. Just doesn't fit. I guess this disco/r & b takes on Christmas is all for people who enjoy boogieing before the Manger. ohno:
Oh God yes! You are so right. I can't stand those versions. PLAY THE ORIGINAL VERSIONS OR PLAY NOTHING AT ALL!!!!!:mad: :mad: :mad: I love the Peanuts/Charlie Brown Christmas music, The Carpenters, The Harry Simeon (original) version of "The Little Drummer Boy", John Lennon's "War is Over (Happy Christmas)"...all the classics.

James

11-16-2008, 03:49 PM

WLQT "Lite" 99.9 is the first to play wall-to-wall Christmas music for the Dayton area, having started Friday, November 14. That's fine even if it temporarily removes the newly installed retro 1970s AT40 with Casey Kasem and "The '70s" with Steve Goddard every Sunday morning.

Purffin

11-17-2008, 07:23 PM

I don't know about any radio stations, but the day after Halloween they started playing X-mas music at my work and it has been going non-stop......its so annoying.

MonarC

11-17-2008, 08:04 PM

Oh god! I hate early xmas music. The only time I wanna hear it is maybe a week before the big day.

BarneyFife

11-17-2008, 08:21 PM

Our local station (Mix 92.9) normally starts playing Christmas music a week before Thanksgiving, which i think is way to early.

MonarC

11-17-2008, 08:30 PM

The hardcore xmas music lovin folks should just fill their ipod full so the rest of us don't go insane with rage! :sarah:

Steve M.

11-17-2008, 10:03 PM

Well guys, what else are they gonna play? Turkey Music?

Alice's Restaurant! :turkey: :)

Chocoholic

11-20-2008, 10:52 AM

I know of at least two radio stations from Boston (Oldies 103.3 and WROR 105.7) that went all-Christmas right after Halloween. I love Christmas music, but I don't want to hear it until they day after Thanksgiving. Thankfully, the country station I listen to (Country 102.5 WKLB) respects its listeners enough to uhold off until after Thanksgiving to start playing it. Even then, they don't play it 24/7 until Christmas Eve.

EmoJoe

11-20-2008, 10:09 PM

^agreed. i cant listen to Christmas music until the day after Thanksgiving.
one year later and pre-Thanksgiving Christmas music = still too early

luckily none of the stations i listen to have gone all-Christmas yet

James

10-29-2009, 02:16 AM

Cincinnati's WAKW "Star" 93.3 has started playing Christmas music on its webstream at www.mystar933.com (http://www.mystar933.com/)!

phoebe7165

10-29-2009, 11:46 AM

Cincinnati's WAKW "Star" 93.3 has started playing Christmas music on its webstream at www.mystar933.com (http://www.mystar933.com/)!

I still don't mind the early airings of Christmas music. My big beef is that the radio stations only have a limited Christmas music reportaire(sp?), so eventually they start playing the same crap over and over and over again. I'm telling ya, the past few years, I've really started to hate "Winter Wonderland", "Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow", and "Silver Bells", because our local stations play every version in existence of those 3 songs!:mad:

As many Christmas songs as there are out there, and as many Christmas CDs there are, to play off of, mix it up a bit!!

One of our stations called 98.9 WMMO, they only do 36 hours of Christmas starting Christmas Eve, and they play better music in those 36 hrs, than the other stations do in 2 months!!

MickeyMac

10-29-2009, 12:15 PM

Christmas music before Thanksgiving? IT'S TOO EARLY!!! :mad:

Totally!!!

James

10-31-2010, 01:15 AM

Cincinnati FM station 93.3 is doing it again this year! They started Friday, October 29, BTW.

Merry Christmas nearly two months early!

:tree: :santa2: :cc: :stocking: :santa: :candle:

ABlairican Pie

10-31-2010, 03:32 AM

Cincinnati FM station 93.3 is doing it again this year! They started Friday, October 29, BTW.

Merry Christmas nearly two months early!

:tree: :santa2: :cc: :stocking: :santa: :candle:
:eek: That's insane!!! Yesterday wasn't even Halloween yet!!

They're playing metal bands covering other metal bands on Metal Shop on KISW 99.9 FM right now. :rock: :guitar: :guitar: :rock:.

Steve M.

10-31-2010, 10:56 PM

Cincinnati FM station 93.3 is doing it again this year! They started Friday, October 29, BTW.

Merry Christmas nearly two months early!

:tree: :santa2: :cc: :stocking: :santa: :candle:

This is enough to make me want to ditch Christmas for Kwanzaa, and I'm not even black!