Poll: Your favorite radio station turns all Christmas..

Chaotic42

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One of our stations (a country station) turned all Christmas on Thanksgiving day. Besides being a PITA for a bunch of technical reasons, I think it's a horrible idea. What about the regular listeners? I think we've lost them. 30-something days of Christmas music, 24/7 is the worst idea ever.

So, let me give you a hypothetical situarion. Your favorite station jumps to all slow Christmas music on Thanksgiving. You don't know when it will go back. What would your reaction be?
 

Vortex22

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Heh the stations that I listen to will never turn all christmas.
The radio sucks anyway.
 

Electrode

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Two stations here have gone to an all-christmas format. One switched at the beginning of November, the other on Thanksgiving.
 

MartyMcFly3

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If they switch over to Xmas music on Thanksgiving id be pissed off..... however Xmas music on the radio in December doesnt bother me at all... if i get tired of it i can always pop in a cd.
 

Kelvrick

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Not many of them do that anyway. I always leave it as one of my presets and flip through all the channels as I always do.
 

illusion88

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happens every year. I take it off my "favorites" and add something else. I usually head over to the AM band and listen to some talk radio.
 

Chaotic42

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Originally posted by: Kelvrick
Not many of them do that anyway. I always leave it as one of my presets and flip through all the channels as I always do.

Yes, but our station, one of the ones where I work, has switched over. Personally I say we just turn it off and save ourselves the power bill.
 

jjessico

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One of the stations where I live went all Christmas on Thanksgiving. It really pisses me off because there aren't a whole lot of stations around here. Why in the hell they have done this, I do not know. I'm severely pissed and won't be listening to them again.

So Chaotic, why do the stations do this? You seem to be in the biz.

Jason
 

Chaotic42

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Originally posted by: jjessico
One of the stations where I live went all Christmas on Thanksgiving. It really pisses me off because there aren't a whole lot of stations around here. Why in the hell they have done this, I do not know. I'm severely pissed and won't be listening to them again.

So Chaotic, why do the stations do this? You seem to be in the biz.

Jason

Well, it could be a few things.

They could be a member of a "local station group" that has members all over the country. One station changed over, had success, told them about it, and now they're trying it.

It could be that the locals demanded it.

Or, in our case, our boss' wife is insane and won't let him get a moments rest at home until he does what she wants, which is go all Christmas. She wanted to make it all commercials, with a DJ there on air to talk about the commercials. I kid you not.

She's also our news director.

You want to know what to do? Get everyone that you know that is unhappy about it, and get *all* of them to write physical letters (sign them) to the station manager, owner, DJ, and anyone else who you can get the name of. Saturate that station with letters to everyone. Send them over and over again. Call every day, maybe get a group of 5 people per day to call.

Once you've done that, it's time for the coup de grace....

Go to the people who advertise on the station, and mention that you won't be listening to the station or buying from them while it's still on the Christmas format.

The employees just work there, the listening public and advertisers are the only people who can do anything about it.
 

Siddhartha

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Life is too short to get upset about this kind of small stuff
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No big deal I have other sources for listening to music and get to news and weather.
 

GoodRevrnd

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53 year old women who buy seasonal sweaters will appreciate it.


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Or, in our case, our boss' wife is insane and won't let him get a moments rest at home until he does what she wants, which is go all Christmas. She wanted to make it all commercials, with a DJ there on air to talk about the commercials. I kid you not.
^^My point exactly.
 

TheToOTaLL

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One of our local stations is going on their second year (I believe, maybe longer) of switching to all Christmas day around Thanksgiving. I think this would fall under Chaotic's statement about member groups, where one has success, and others "try" it. I believe I've actually heard more radio's across the city tuned to that station than if they had been on their regular format.

I personally not big for Christmas music, but it really doesn't bother me. On the other hand, my wife has that station tuned to in her car, and all day yesterday she had Sounds of the Season playing on Music Choice.
 

bandana163

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I don't really listen to radio anymore, but I'd be unhappy and come here to nef all day long.
 

nativesunshine

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This happened to my favorite radio station. Granted, it's a Christian station to begin with..but I'm really not liking the Christmas songs they're playing. So I've started listening to Top 40 again..which totally sucks but I'll just have to endure the pain until after Christmas. And they don't even play very popular christmas songs..they play more religious stuff, which is cool and all..but I'm so not familiar with any of them. If i wanted to tune into some christmas songs I'd just switch to 106.7 or 102.7...at least they have more recent, popular christmas songs.
 

Eli

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Screw that..

I listen to a rock station, they probably do change the programming a little, but I don't think there are enough hard rock/metal christmas songs to keep them going for more than a few hours :p

I know the Oldies station just throws christmas songs in here and there, amongst their normal lineup. I like it like that.
 

Kelemvor

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I know people that specifically will turn on those kidns of stations between Thanksgiving and Christmas just to hear all the Christmas music to keep them in the happy Christmasy mood.

I, on the other hand, won't ever turn on those stations unless I'm doing something that is Christmasy like looking at decorations or something like that.