Yes. This started around here about 5 years ago. There are hundreds of other stations to listen to, so just change the station if it bothers you.
Back in my radio days we started playing one Christmas song per hour, the day after thanksgiving.
As Christmas approached, we would increase the hourly play gradually but the only days we would play almost all Christmas songs was on Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day.
The week between Christmas and New Years, we’d still play one or two an hour just to keep the holiday spirit alive. On January 2nd, we’d put all those songs away for another year.
It worked well.
Since I like Christmas music and have a Christmas jazz album I listen to year round, it doesn’t bother me.
However, the early decorations annoy me. Home Depot already has their stuff out.
Some stations do it between Election Day and Veterans’ Day. In Boston WMJX 106.7 is the one all Christmas station. For those with HD radios, the HD3 of WODS 103.3 was supposed to go all Christmas today...while WMJX’s HD 2 station has been all Christmas 24-7-365.
They didn’t switch it off after Christmas last year. Maybe they don’t give a crap about it and “forgot”.
I don’t know if there are any brick & mortar & transmitter stations playing Christmas music yet, but I bet there are several internet stations.
Can't wait to put up all the Thanksgiving decorations I have and play Christmas music...
Then the first Sunday in December I put up my (artificial) 7 foot tree and we have apple cider and cookies and listen to Christmas music and decorate thru out the whole place...and then on Christmas Eve we read the bible and remember what Christmas is really all about....then go to bed and then it's Christmas morning with presents, coffee, cookies, cakes and people dropping by...
Oh I love the Holidays and the sound of “Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!”
Then New Years Eve we play games to bring in the New Year!!!
We have a radio station that feeds the Christmas music into our big light show. So that station starts when the light show opens. I think its the day before Thanksgiving.
My wife worked in radio for thirty years.
She tells me that it used to be policy to not do Christmas music until the day after Thanksgiving. Then one song a daypart for the first week. As you got closer to Christmas, the number per day part would increase. By Christmas eve it was to be wall-to-wall.
By the time she left the business, it started about Veterans Day and a couple of stations went wall-to-wall after thanksgiving.
We heard “12 Days of Christmas” playing at Walmart last Tuesday.
I haven’t heard any, but that means nothing.
My comment is that, if so, it cannot be a bad thing.
They should play it all year round as opposed to pop or rock or rap or whatever horrid stuff they do play.
If they play Christmas hymn, I love it. I hate secular Christmas songs.
Yes. I like Christmas music but too much of a good thing...
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The two Hallmark channels that I receive on Direct TV are already loaded up with sappy Christmas movies.
There were commercials (Target) for Christmas back in August. Most of the movies on tv last night, Halloween night, were Christmas movies.
I love it, my boss hated it so I would turn the shop
radio to a Christmas channel and he would rarely come
back there during the holidays.
I could work in peace.
Reason I start so early is that I have a vast Christmas music collection that even if I played nonstop between now and Christmas, I likely wouldn't be able to hear it all. iTunes tells me I have 4,318 tracks of Christmas songs. And hundreds of those are 45 minute long blocks of Christmas music I taped off the radio all during the 1970s and 1980s.
Every year, I add perhaps another 200 tracks to the mix. So I'm a serious collector.
Now Sirius radio starts playing Christmas music 24/7 tomorrow at 5PM on channel 18. The problem I have with radio in general however is they basically stick to a playlist of about maybe 250 songs so that you get sick and tired of them in no time at all. Variety is the spice of life and my Christmas music collections spans all genres of music. So I never get sick of Christmas music and it's always bittersweet when I put it away after the New Year.
There is a woman across the street from me who puts up her Christmas Tree on October 1st.
This morning she put up the Christmas lights in her windows.
Yes, the Sirius station now has Christmas music. More importantly, this morning I played Christmas music on my guitar for my wife who requested it.