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OT: Christmas music already? 100.7 WHUD has gone all Christmas as of 11/1

DJ Spanky

DJ Spanky

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So I'm an admitted channel flipper on the radio: I like to to flick between all styles of music, a relic of my DJing days. Anyway, switched to the station I mentioned and they're playing Christmas music. It's friggin' November First! Already? Time to drop them from my rotation. I know a couple of other stations go all Christmas, but usually they wait until the week of Thanksgiving. This is just getting silly now.
 
DJ Spanky said:
So I'm an admitted channel flipper on the radio: I like to to flick between all styles of music, a relic of my DJing days. Anyway, switched to the station I mentioned and they're playing Christmas music. It's friggin' November First! Already? Time to drop them from my rotation. I know a couple of other stations go all Christmas, but usually they wait until the week of Thanksgiving. This is just getting silly now.
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Really should wait until at least the Friday after Thanksgiving, but things are different now.
 
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That the day the Disney parks switch from Halloween to Christmas. Could that be seeping into the general public? Then again, there are Black Friday sales already too.
 
GoodOl'Rutgers said:
That the day the Disney parks switch from Halloween to Christmas. Could that be seeping into the general public? Then again, there are Black Friday sales already too.
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I saw a bunch of ads for BF sales already. I have no idea what BF is or when it is anymore - not that I ever participated.
 
DJ Spanky said:
So I'm an admitted channel flipper on the radio: I like to to flick between all styles of music, a relic of my DJing days. Anyway, switched to the station I mentioned and they're playing Christmas music. It's friggin' November First! Already? Time to drop them from my rotation. I know a couple of other stations go all Christmas, but usually they wait until the week of Thanksgiving. This is just getting silly now.
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Christmas Jazz music is acceptable all of November. After thanksgiving is when you can play Christmas music with lyrics/Christmas carols.
 
In the Philippines Christmas season starts in September. They call it the BER months.
 
RUPete said:
I saw a bunch of ads for BF sales already. I have no idea what BF is or when it is anymore - not that I ever participated.
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Well.. the traditional meaning was that retail businesses ran in the red (debt) until Christmas season.. so Black Friday was when the retail business would get into the yearly profit zone and that generally was AFTER Thanksgiving when people turned their minds towards Christmas and Christmas shopping. So the Friday after Thanksgiving, most people on Thanksgiving holiday.. would go shopping. So that was black Friday.

I'm guessing you knew that.. but I'd bet a lot of younger folk never realized that and, going forward, the number of people who had no idea what it meant would increase as the Black Friday sales seep into October.
 
gef21 said:
Christmas Jazz music is acceptable all of November. After thanksgiving is when you can play Christmas music with lyrics/Christmas carols.
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You know.. as media becomes more and more just parts of huge conglomerates.. could scheduling when to start Christmas music be an attempt to jumpstart consumer Christmas shopping?
 
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Maybe like 20 years ago i remember a ny station got sold or changed management in the fall. They just decided to play Christmas music for the rest of the year while they figured things out. I think it was 106.7
 
It's that time of year where I play a game with my daughters as we drive around town.

Halloween, Diwali, Thanksgiving or Christmas decorations?
 
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GoodOl'Rutgers said:
Well.. the traditional meaning was that retail businesses ran in the red (debt) until Christmas season.. so Black Friday was when the retail business would get into the yearly profit zone and that generally was AFTER Thanksgiving when people turned their minds towards Christmas and Christmas shopping. So the Friday after Thanksgiving, most people on Thanksgiving holiday.. would go shopping. So that was black Friday.

I'm guessing you knew that.. but I'd bet a lot of younger folk never realized that and, going forward, the number of people who had no idea what it meant would increase as the Black Friday sales seep into October.
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Thanksgiving has been swallowed up by the Christmas Holiday Creep machine. Black Friday is now Black November. Taking it even further, there are states in the Midwest where Christmas in July is a thing.
 
I need to get ready to tune away from the most wretched, vile and loathe-worthy Christmas song ever…

Feliz Navidad…🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
 
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LotusAggressor said:
Thanksgiving has been swallowed up by the Christmas Holiday Creep machine. Black Friday is now Black November. Taking it even further, there are states in the Midwest where Christmas in July is a thing.
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Well, Christmas in July is kinda fun. It is a half-Christmas, those states have the "real" Christmas too. I'm sure we all know that Christmas is just the Christian takeover of a Germanic winter solstice holiday and, of course, All Saints Day is a failed attempt to Christianize the Druid's Halloween.. what's its name.. something like Samhain (still celebrated in Ireland)... and its really just a harvest festival that gave the Druids power based on superstition.

The public holidays of Thanksgiving and Independence Day and Memorial Day and Labor Day are probably the most honest holidays we have.. Easter too, for believers, as I'm sure every religious holiday has some honesty to it.
 
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