Christmas Music on WNIC

[Deleted User 15688]

When I program radio music I never play any Christmas music until after Thanksgiving. WNIC apparently couldn't even
wait for Halloween to flip to all Christmas. That's really pushing Christmas too far and WNIC should be ashamed of that.

Agreed. WNIC has been doing this for a number of years.

[stopnswop2]

In regards to their normal playlist though, I just looked at their playlist history.
It used to be a bunch of new songs, with the occasional gold.
Now it's reversed.
Looks much more listenable

[Deleted User 15688]

WOMC-HD2 is now Christmas.

[Bobbert]

If the iHeart corporate playlist included more than 75 songs, I wouldn't mind it as much.
One thing I give iHeart credit for: that 75-song playlist does not include "The Christmas Shoes" or "Grandma Got Run Over" (or at least didn't in years past). Thank heaven for small mercies.

Sounds more like 25 song playlist

At times it feels like a one song playlist. A bar in Texas has evidently had enough of that song:

https://www.iheart.com/content/2021-11- ... christmas/

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[Mega Hertz]

*click*
"Boots that need knockin'...knockin' boots"
*click*
"Mamaaaaaa just killed a ma--"
*click*
"Every body wants to rule the w--"
*click*
"Last Christmas, I gave you my he--"
*click*
"Yeah yeah youuuuu shook me all n--"
*click*
"Cuz I gotta have faith a-faith a-fai--"
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"Down by the river in my picku--"
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"He's the one they call Dr. Feelg--"
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"Alllllll I want for Christmas is youuu--"
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"Tick tick tick tick tititititit tick--"
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"Ninety seven one, the Wolverines cause 93% of all cancers, 248-539--"
*click*

Ah, the silence is much better.

~Me, tuning the radio every day for the next 2 months.

[Bobbert]

It's here...

A little depressing that they didn't start with the original and best version of Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree, by Brenda Lee.

[Mega Hertz]

At least the last song of the normal format was a good one!

So, how do they do this? Play like everything is cool, go into commercial, and come back with the Christmas format?

[stopnswop2]

It's here...

A little depressing that they didn't start with the original and best version of Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree, by Brenda Lee.

This station is trash, that's why. They have looked and sounded like trash since Jay Towers joined a decade ago.

But nobody seems to care or notice, since there is no alternative competitor station

[ChrisWL1980]

Mediabase is showing the first Christmas song played as "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" by the Jackson 5, at 8:15am.
http://www.mediabase.com/whatsong/whats ... 7045070077

Shockingly, "that song" has only played twice since then.
No Christmas music on 101.5 Toledo yet, they're doing Friday Night '80s as usual. WRVF has shown a little more restraint in the past few years, waiting until close to mid-November to pull the switch. Their sister station in Grand Rapids apparently just switched at 5pm today.

Me, I miss the days when stations waited until Christmas Eve to go wall-to-wall holiday music, and playing only 30 hours of Christmas music during Christmas Eve and Christmas Day was a big deal. Remember the old WJOI Joy 97 "Christmas Festivals of Music" sponsored by NBD?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQB9_sq4ITs

[Deleted User 15688]

It's here...

A little depressing that they didn't start with the original and best version of Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree, by Brenda Lee.

This station is trash, that's why. They have looked and sounded like trash since Jay Towers joined a decade ago.

But nobody seems to care or notice, since there is no alternative competitor station

IHeart, Audacy and most of the big radio companies are putting more effort in their streaming platforms. The traditional radio platform is hurting because of that. Go to Google Play and just see how many installed apps for IHeart It's currently at 50 million, Audacy 1 million, Simple Radio 50 million, TuneIn 100 million and the list goes on. Don't forget about Sirius XM and YouTube. Traditional radio is in serious trouble.

[ChrisWL1980]

Spoke too soon about 101.5... they made the move during the 5:00 hour today. Their online playlist shows the first song played as "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" by Darlene Love at 5:39pm.

[Bobbert]

I've been listening to it a little. It's been 10 months since it was last played, which gives it some freshness. It also gives a nice positive lift. I've been buying Christmas presents since September, so I'm in the mood. Along with all the Christmas TV ads, it helps me look forward to Christmas, which is pleasurable.

Hopefully that feeling will only last another day or two, so that I don't spoil my appetite for Christmas music during the Christmas season.

[Bobbert]

Mediabase is showing the first Christmas song played as "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" by the Jackson 5, at 8:15am.
http://www.mediabase.com/whatsong/whats ... 7045070077

Shockingly, "that song" has only played twice since then.
No Christmas music on 101.5 Toledo yet, they're doing Friday Night '80s as usual. WRVF has shown a little more restraint in the past few years, waiting until close to mid-November to pull the switch. Their sister station in Grand Rapids apparently just switched at 5pm today.

Me, I miss the days when stations waited until Christmas Eve to go wall-to-wall holiday music, and playing only 30 hours of Christmas music during Christmas Eve and Christmas Day was a big deal. Remember the old WJOI Joy 97 "Christmas Festivals of Music" sponsored by NBD?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQB9_sq4ITs

Thanks for that link. That list is easy to paste into Excel so I checked to see what was being played the most from midnight Friday night to about 6 p.m. today (42 hours). Here's a sample:

JOSE FELICIANO Feliz Navidad (11 times played)
FRANK SINATRA Jingle Bells (10)
BOBBY HELMS Jingle Bell Rock (10)
ANDY WILLIAMS Winter Wonderland (10)
MICHAEL BUBLE Holly Jolly Christmas (10)
MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER Carol Of The Bells (9)
BRENDA LEE Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree (9)
DEAN MARTIN Let It Snow! Let It Snow! (9)
JOHNNY MATHIS It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas (9)
PAUL MCCARTNEY Wonderful Christmastime (9)
RONETTES Sleigh Ride (9)
JOHN LENNON Happy Xmas/War Is Over (8)
DAVID FOSTER Carol Of The Bells (8)
LINDSEY STIRLING Carol Of The Bells (8)
ANDY WILLIAMS Most Wonderful Time Of The. Year (8)
BURL IVES Have A Holly Jolly Christmas (8)
BURL IVES Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (8)
ELVIS PRESLEY Blue Christmas (7)
MARIAH CAREY All I Want For Christmas Is You (7)
MARIAH CAREY Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town (7)
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town (6)
THURL RAVENSCROFT You're A Mean One Mr. Grinch (6)
NAT KING COLE The Christmas Song (6)
BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA Sleigh Ride (4)

In the Last Christmas contest, the Glee cast led with 8 plays, followed by Taylor Swift and Wham with 7 each.
In the Santa Baby contest, Madonna and Taylor Swift were tied with 5 plays apiece, followed by Earth Kitt with 1.

Biggest surprise:
DRIFTERS White Christmas (4)
TAYLOR SWIFT White Christmas (2)
BING CROSBY White Christmas (1)
DARLENE LOVE White Christmas (1)

I'm guessing they're saving Bing for after Thanksgiving.

Songs that got only one play apiece include:

SPIKE JONES All I Want For Christmas is My Two Front Teeth
NORAH JONES Christmas Don't Be Late
STAN FREBERG Christmas Dragnet
CARRIE UNDERWOOD Favorite Time Of Year
BEACH BOYS Frosty The Snowman
JIMMY DURANTE Frosty The Snowman
JUDY GARLAND Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
DARREN CRISS I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas
YOGI YORGESSON I Yust Go Nuts At Christmas
HARRY SIMEONE CHORALE Little Drummer Boy
BUCHANAN & GOODMAN Santa & The Satellite
RAY STEVENS Santa Claus Is Watching You
ARIANA GRANDE Santa Tell Me
DAVID WHITFIELD Santo Natale (Merry Christmas)
TRAIN Shake Up Christmas (2015)
ROYAL GUARDSMEN Snoopy's Christmas
CHIPMUNKS The Chipmunk Song
ELTON JOHN Step Into Christmas

One song that got no plays:

Santa Got Run Over By a Reindeer

[stopnswop2]

Looks like I was right about a 25 song playlist.

I'll be listening out of market this year, since this is the first time since 2012 that WOMC or 987 has not saved us with their bigger variety playlist