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Christmas Wasteland
What's with the wall-to-wall AM band Christmas music? I don't know if
it's particularly bad this year and I never noticed, or if it's that Big Radio owns everything and is saving on staffing this year (are they thinking nobody is listening so they might as well force the issue?). Maybe the weather was better in previous years and I was just outside more. Anyway I get some station on every AM channel in the daytime, and there were about three sports talk shows (they have a right to be there and I don't mind but please) and 97 Christmas Music channels all day. How is this possible? Is it like car dealers being closed on Sunday, sort of a gentlemen's agreement? But listeners just flip it off. I like the background sound of Imus and Boortz and Rush while I work, not Leroy Anderson for Christsake. Actually a lot of stations carried Rush and Rush went to Christmas Music for the Deaf, and the local Rush station preempted Rush for their own Christmas Music. It's gotten two deep, it's so bad: Christmas Music preempting Christmas Music preempting the regular show. The Messaih _once_ on some station would be nice on Christmas Eve, but that's my own nostalgia. Nobody listens to Leroy Anderson unless there's a rap version. -- Ron Hardin On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk. |
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On 26 Dec 2003 14:53:39 GMT, Ron Hardin
wrote: The Messaih _once_ on some station would be nice on Christmas Eve, but that's my own nostalgia. Nobody listens to Leroy Anderson unless there's a rap version. How many "Little Drummer Boys" did you hear? My record listening was 27 in a 60 minute period while scanning around the band....(c; God, I hate THAT song! No wonder they get molested! Larry W4CSC NNNN |
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On 26 Dec 2003 14:53:39 GMT, Ron Hardin
wrote: What's with the wall-to-wall AM band Christmas music? I don't know if it's particularly bad this year and I never noticed, or if it's that Big Radio owns everything and is saving on staffing this year (are they thinking nobody is listening so they might as well force the issue?). It's a combination of those factors. * Christmas Day is a very, very, very low listening day for AM news/talk stations. When you're out with the family, exchanging presents, doing all those Christmas things...listening to issue-oriented talk is perhaps the last thing you want to do. I'm a news/talk junkie, and even *I* am not really "in the mood" for it on Christmas Day. There's not usually a lot going on in the world aside from Christmas-related "news", so it's almost not worth bothering. * Most stations give their full-time/regular staff Christmas Day off. That leaves either automation or board ops as the only people working. And as you noted, even Rush strayed from format on that day, with a probably pre-recorded Christmas Music show for whatever stations were not preempting him with something else. * There are many syndicated packages and shows aimed at news/talk stations who are providing the non-traditional programing. I know of at least two "Christmas music syndicators" which air a satellite feed of Christmas music for news/talk stations, from early evening Christmas Eve through late night Christmas Day. The traditional radio networks offer things, too...like ABC's Disney Christmas 3 hour special (almost an in-house production for the Mouse House . I did hear some "regular" talk Christmas Eve night...syndicated Rollye James was live on Wednesday night (heard locally on CC's WHLO/640 Akron). And I'm pretty sure "Coast to Coast AM" ran a regular George Noory show, though it was likely a best of. Mike |
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Mike Ward wrote in message ...
snip * Christmas Day is a very, very, very low listening day for AM news/talk stations. When you're out with the family, exchanging presents, doing all those Christmas things...listening to issue-oriented talk is perhaps the last thing you want to do. I'm a news/talk junkie, and even *I* am not really "in the mood" for it on Christmas Day. There's not usually a lot going on in the world aside from Christmas-related "news", so it's almost not worth bothering. snip I was driving from my home in Temecula, CA to visit family in the Central Valley and listened to KNX (You can only get KFMB(FM) for so far, and my KIIS(FM) tolerances aren't what they were a few years back...) on Christmas day, and I was a bit suprised... I was expecting some tape/automation, but it seemed entirely live (news/traffic/weather) with fairly framiliar voices, but then at 13:00 +/- an hour or so they went to a two hour "highlights of the moon landing" thing that was quite enjoyable -- even though the landing was 15 years before I was born. Unfourtinately, I lost KNX at the top of the grapevine, so I missed the last :45 or so ... if there's a copy somewhere on the web, I would appreciate a pointer (Preferred email: abuse _at_ lincoln _dot_ homeip _dot_ net) Happy Holidays! Lincoln |
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