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Post by CAwasinNJ on Nov 10, 2021 7:38:30 GMT -6
The two important questions in my mind are, what station(s) will take 99.5's place and will she be back in January?
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Post by amanuensis on Nov 10, 2021 11:12:38 GMT -6
I didn't put FM100 back on my presets when Jan 2020 rolled around. There were other stations that I was liking better. It is still not back.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Nov 15, 2021 11:20:02 GMT -6
FM100.3 has gone Christmas. I'm not sure when the flip happened, but I was guessing last Thursday or Friday.
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Post by oldiesfunhouse on Nov 15, 2021 12:02:14 GMT -6
I heard them say on FM 100.3 that they flipped on Friday at 6:59 and change AM. I just tuned into My 995. They're still calling it My 995. It's just your holiday music station now. Could it be a stunting/format change? How were they doing in the ratings? Easy 99.5 maybe? I kind of doubt that. It's an interesting move, though.
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Post by David on Nov 15, 2021 14:05:12 GMT -6
KJMY has had a drop in ratings in the last couple of ratings periods, but I don't know how significant the drop is since I'm not skilled in interpreting Nielsen. However, early flips to Christmas music are one of the most popular stunting "tools" broadcasters use. iHeart might do OK by flipping 99.5 to the old Easy 99.1 format, since that format was doing pretty good before it flipped to Bloomberg Business News. One thing's for sure: Business 99.1 certainly isn't setting the world on fire as a ratings success. 😄
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Nov 16, 2021 5:09:07 GMT -6
My 99.5 isn't going anywhere.
The last two ratings periods notwithstanding, it's doing fine. More importantly, if Christmas was a stunt they wouldn't still be using the My branding. MOST importantly, going Christmas was part of the flip of virtually all of iHeart's Hot AC/AC stations (plus a bunch of others) nationwide on Nov 5.
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Post by amanuensis on Nov 19, 2021 11:52:39 GMT -6
I remember a time when KSFI was self-restrained, and did not go all-Christmas until it started a 100-hour marathon of Christmas music timed to conclude at the end of Christmas Day. One year, I recall that they took out a newspaper ad to list every song that they were going to play and the exact time to tune in to hear it. I strongly prefer having a mix with the regular format until just before Christmas. And I applaud having the Christmas music fit in with the other songs played format-wise. I would like all stations to do that. Artists have done Christmas music in all formats and styles. So, there's no reason why KRSP cannot mix in some Trans-Siberian Orchestra, for example. Or 105.5 do John Lennon's So This is Christmas.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Nov 19, 2021 13:37:31 GMT -6
Bonneville's WRFM in New York did the "Christmas Festival of Music" commercial-free starting 6PM Christmas Eve and running through Christmas Day, complete with the listing in an ad in the New York Times of all the songs they would play and when. The problem was that they didn't have a good grasp of the running times and by the end of it the times were off by at least 20 or 30 minutes. Oops. It was an interesting exercise dropping in at a random time and trying to figure out where they were.
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Post by oldiesfunhouse on Nov 22, 2021 10:39:03 GMT -6
If memory serves, in the last few years, KSFI has still done their 100 hours of Christmas music, but to distinguish it from the all Christmas music they've been playing since November, they made the 100 hours commercial free. Well, almost. They would still have little drop-ins between the songs saying things like "The 100 hours of commercial free music is brought to you by …" and then they would insert maybe a ten second message naming a sponsor and some deal they had. KOSI 101 in Denver did the 101 hours of Christmas music when I lived there in the late 90s when but I tuned into their stream a year or two ago trying to hear the transition from just all Christmas music, which they were doing, to the 101 hours and they didn't do it. I think they're owned by Bonneville now so I was a little surprised they didn't specifically identify any 101 hours of Christmasbb
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Post by amanuensis on Nov 22, 2021 10:49:47 GMT -6
I wish KBYU would again play orchestral Christmas music with an emphasis on traditional melodies composed long ago. They did one year and it was great.
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Post by David on Nov 22, 2021 13:12:19 GMT -6
I'm probably older than most of the people who post here, and so I'm old enough to remember when the local beautiful music/easy listening station in Minneapolis didn't flip to all Christmas music until 3 PM on Christmas Eve. WAYL 93.7, which today is KXXR "93X", would air 33 hours of Christmas music "with limited commercial interruptions" from 3 PM December 24TH until Midnight December 25TH. Prior to the 33 hours of Christmas music, WAYL would play 2-3 Christmas songs each hour beginning on Black Friday. Of course, this was at least 45 years ago, long before Christmas became the commercial merchandising holiday it is today. 🙂
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Nov 23, 2021 9:14:11 GMT -6
In 1974 (47 years ago) the It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown special made fun of the way too early Christmas countdowns by having a 246 Days until Christmas display. I wonder if Charles Schulz would be able to stand it if he were around today.
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Post by oldiesfunhouse on Nov 23, 2021 12:28:14 GMT -6
Something KSL did in the mid 90s when I was in high school was they actually had high school choirs from around the state, including the one I was in, record a couple of Christmas songs each and then they played them, I think as one hour specials, that ran throughout Christmas week, certainly Christmas Eve and Christmas Day at different times. I remember Bob Lee (whatever happened to him?), Doug Wright, and Grant and Amanda hosting different ones of the specials. Some of the choirs were amazing and some, like the one from Tabyona High School, were … I don't think we're supposed to say anything negative on this board so I'll say, having a lot of fun perhaps at the expense of our ears. LOL! The announcer or announcers in Grant and Amanda's case would say who the school's choir director was and their principal. I think it was Emery High School that did a beautiful rendition of "I Wonder as I Wander" with an outstanding female soloist. One of the songs our Kearns High choir did was "Still, Still, Still." I think some other choirs did that one too. Maybe that was the only song we did. I can't remember if we did others. That was a neat idea. I don't know if they did it just the one year or if it went on for multiple years. Christmas Eve night has always been a fon one for DXing. I remember one year as a kid, a station, I don't know which one, was playing the entire Nut Cracker Suite. Another was playing Christmas themed radio dramas from the Golden Age of Radio. I know the Arrow, KRSP, has done their all Beatles Christmas for several years. It's still fun for me to flip through the radio dial on Christmas Day.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Nov 24, 2021 5:04:43 GMT -6
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Post by David on Nov 27, 2021 11:46:33 GMT -6
FWIW, KANN 1120 flipped to all Christmas music sometime on Black Friday. They're airing a mix of traditional secular Christmas tunes and Contemporary Christian Christmas songs. KSOP-AM is also playing a couple of country Christmas songs each hour as well.
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