the christmas-industrial complex

[BigDrawMan]

2 radio stations have begun all xmas music all the time.

the first song i heard was yoko ono caterwauling
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[MarleysGh0st]

Doesn't that make you want to run out and go shopping...for earplugs?

[Beebs52]

2 radio stations have begun all xmas music all the time.

the first song i heard was yoko ono caterwauling
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Imagine that.

[Kazoo65]

I've got you beat by a week. They started playing non-stop Christmas music last Friday on a radio station from Grand Rapids.

They also are playing it at Meijer to get people in the mood to buy stuff, and at my Mecca they have a HUGE tree up right as you enter the store. It's at least 9 feet tall and all decorated.

I haven't even had Thanksgiving dinner or my birthday cake yet.

[Beebs52]

Gee whiz. Beedums gets a response from Kazoo. He, who never posts.

Sitting in a tree.

[MarkBarrett]

96.5 KOIT has already started their Christmas song playing: http://player.streamtheworld.com/_playe ... r/?id=KOIT

I like being able to check on titles/artists I cannot peg on the way to work later when I have computer access.

[littlebeast13]

The only good thing about the death of Mecca Radio last year was not having to hear the #&@* Christmas music on the PA from November 1 til December 24......

The silence lasted just one season. It kicked on sometime while I was off the last couple days.... and it doesn't even stop when someone is making a page.....

Shoot me....

lb13

[jaybee]

Thank God for XM radio!

What used to be my favorite local FM station always plays Christmas music 24/7 starting with Thanksgiving day. My search for other stations during the holidays is what lead me to find enough alternatives so I no longer use that station at all.

[etaoin22]

I don't understand or claim to understand. I have never heard anyone evince enthusiasm for two months of the same overplayed 40 ditties, only a few of which qualify as carols, and I also doubt that there would be a subliminal jolt to the buying areas of the brain to justify.

Mind you, up here, the modern Québécois will listen to Highway to Hell on the way to Midnight Mass.

[ten96lt]

They started playing 24/7 on a radio station in Chicago last Monday IIRC. I used to like that station, but now I'm avoiding it like the plague until mid December. A few years ago I remember they used to start the day after Thanksgiving, but then they started playing it earlier and earlier. Then they stop at midnight on December 26th.

[etaoin22]

well, I did find a page which claimed 10% ratings improvement for stations going all XMAS early, at least in 2006. And now I've lost it. But it refers to

http://www.100000watts.com

which is a subscriber site anyhow.

It is also of interest that the #1 XMAS song in 2006 and 2004, and #2 in 2005:

Spoiler

Holly Jolly Christmas by Burl Ives.