People who find the station often stick around after the holidays and discover a new favorite station."

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHA. Um, no.

This is why we can't have nice things.

veedeevadeevoodee: Ramadan radio

Found on *BOOM* boxes everywhere ?

LMAO. :D

You have just been upgraded to first class on the non-stop flight to hell.

Anyone who has worked hotels, retail, food service or customer service has a deep and abiding loathing for 24/7 holiday music.

I used to think, "who the hell listens to all-christmas-all-the-time"?! Then, yesterday, I get into the car with my (14 year old) son, and he immediately band-surfs over to one of these stations.

2wolves: Anyone who has worked hotels, retail, food service or customer service has a deep and abiding loathing for 24/7 holiday music.

I wonder how much of the ratings bump is due to those places.

Aarontology: 2wolves: Anyone who has worked hotels, retail, food service or customer service has a deep and abiding loathing for 24/7 holiday music.

I wonder how much of the ratings bump is due to those places.

Are those even counted in ratings? And if so, they would have to count them as more than just one `person' wouldn't they? That's actually a good question.

What's a "radio"?

In other news, many businesses with piped-in music tune in to "all-Christmas-all-the-time" stations this time of year.

nekom: Are those even counted in ratings? And if so, they would have to count them as more than just one `person' wouldn't they? That's actually a good question.

Not sure. Because places like Walgreens have special stations. They don't just tune into the local Christmas radio. But a lot of other places do. Especially if it's a small business.

LandStander: What's a "radio"?

This.

What are they doubling? How are radio stations not going the way of newspapers? Do they still have advertisers because it is so cheap? Is it just people who are trapped in their car for 45 min a day?

I. DECLARE. THUMB. WAAAAAAAAAR!

veedeevadeevoodee: Ramadan radio

Found on *BOOM* boxes everywhere ?

I award you this award for POST OF THE DAY.

thismomentinblackhistory: LandStander: What's a "radio"?

This.

What are they doubling? How are radio stations not going the way of newspapers? Do they still have advertisers because it is so cheap? Is it just people who are trapped in their car for 45 min a day?

Even in a car, there are iThings and other MP3 players. Nobody is limited to radio in the car, though a lot of people probably just throw it on by default. A lot of people seem to use them at work, quite a few guys out in the shop have them, and every time the construction workers are adding something on here they have a little radio on.

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

chaddsfarkprefect: My Arbor Day format lasted exactly two songs. Can you guess them?

two playings of the George of the Jungle theme?

Gulper Eel: People who find the station often stick around after the holidays and discover a new favorite station."

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHA. Um, no.

Well, one of my favorites eases into Christmas music in mid November by allowing requests for it (and they get them, believe it or not), then goes full bore Christmas music the day after Thanksgiving.

I may be a non-believer, but I still find a haunting beauty in a lot of older religious music (this crosses all religions, not just Christianity). The newer stuff really sucks though. Give me Mozart's Unfinished Requiem over "The Supertones"

Favorite religious Christmas music songs are still the version of "Angels we have Heard on High" sang at Christmas and "Carol of the Bells". Secular Christmas songs are Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire and Let It Snow.

//And "These are a few of my favorite things" should not be a Christmas song!

Uzzah: That's interesting. I guess those stations are SIMPLY. HA-AVING. A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS TIME.

/ha ha!

Fark you right in the earworm. That is my #1 all time most hated holiday related song. You are a bad person and you should feel bad.

(The OCD hell of "Carol of the Bells" is #2, pushed higher by the unimaginative advertising demons who keep changing the words to insert into their farking car commercials)

Thelyphthoric: Uzzah: That's interesting. I guess those stations are SIMPLY. HA-AVING. A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS TIME.

/ha ha!

Fark you right in the earworm. That is my #1 all time most hated holiday related song. You are a bad person and you should feel bad.

(The OCD hell of "Carol of the Bells" is #2, pushed higher by the unimaginative advertising demons who keep changing the words to insert into their farking car commercials)

I can't even place that first song for some reason. Now Carol of the Bells should be either the Claymation Christmas version or the Vienna Boy's Choir.