mace wrote:

Thank you for this. Now I know which stations to avoid for the next six to eight weeks.

Seconded. 😁
Especially McCartney's 'Wonderful Christmastime'.

Radiowiz wrote:

The Christmas format used to also be a handy way to change format. 
Drop the current format. Go ALL Christmas, then on Boxing day...surprise! New radio station! 
I wonder if we will see this happen anywhere this year...?

There's at least one

RadioActive wrote:

Just as a matter of interest, on Friday, at least 85 iHeart stations in the U.S. all flipped to Christmas music at the same time. 

iHeartMedia Celebrates the Holiday Season with Annual Holiday Music Flip Across Broadcast Stations Nationwide and the Return of the “iHeartRadio Holiday Special”

 

Nearest iHeartMedia one is 100.3 WNIC Detroit which can be heard in Windsor since it's close to Detroit.

104.7 Heart FM's HD2 Channel is now playing Christmas music.

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Maybe this will bring you back...

(Love the name The Marsden-ettes. Any relation to David?) 

haydenmatthews14 wrote:

Someone told me on the Digital Home forum that all of the "Move" radio stations including CHRE 105.7 Niagara will flip to All Christmas music Friday morning. But still no word if Easy 101.3 will do the same thing.

I think Rogers may have forgotten that they bought it.

Easily Amused wrote:

mace wrote:

Thank you for this. Now I know which stations to avoid for the next six to eight weeks.

Seconded. 😁
Especially McCartney's 'Wonderful Christmastime'.

Or Marshmello World which was originally recorded by Bing Crosby in 1950 but there are numerous versions by other artists. I cringe and my teeth start to ache when I hear any version of this saccharin sweet tune. Technically, it isn't even a Christmas song because the holiday is never mentioned in the lyrics.

mace wrote:

Easily Amused wrote:

mace wrote:

Thank you for this. Now I know which stations to avoid for the next six to eight weeks.

Seconded. 😁
Especially McCartney's 'Wonderful Christmastime'.

Or Marshmello World which was originally recorded by Bing Crosby in 1950 but there are numerous versions by other artists. I cringe and my teeth start to ache when I hear any version of this saccharin sweet tune. Technically, it isn't even a Christmas song because the holiday is never mentioned in the lyrics.

'Marshmallow World' by Dean Martin, along with his version of 'Let It Snow' always were tolerable to me.  They also struck me as having been recorded when he had a few. 😁

I mentioned in a different thread that it was only in the last few years that I had heard the Waitresses 'Christmas Wrapping'.  Another contributor observed that I obviously hadn't worked retail.

RadioAaron wrote:

haydenmatthews14 wrote:

Someone told me on the Digital Home forum that all of the "Move" radio stations including CHRE 105.7 Niagara will flip to All Christmas music Friday morning. But still no word if Easy 101.3 will do the same thing.

I think Rogers may have forgotten that they bought it.

Ha.

They remembered they bought it long enough to sell it.

https://gta.boardhost.com/viewtopic.php?id=13392

 

No.  It will not be a myFM repeater.  Both stations will operate under their own brands.

LOSat wrote:

As these discussions usually take a bit of time, Rogers may have opted not to do the Xmas switch this year. 

Pure speculation on my part but maybe Rogers is looking at another cluster in the South Western Ontario area: Blackburn or vice versa Blackburn is looking at 102.3  Seems odd that Rogers would create a London/Tillsonburg radio cluster (at last studio-wise) only to dismantle it.  The single London radio property sticks out like a sore thumb.
 

So if Blackburn accquired CHST-FM would it branded as COOL 102.3 just like the COOL stations in Sarnia, Wingham and Chatham? 98.1 would keep the Classic Rock format and 102.3 would still maintain the Classic Hits format.

RadioActive wrote:

Maybe this will bring you back...

(Love the name The Marsden-ettes. Any relation to David?) 

It's a little blurry, but at the bottom it says Broderick Crawford appears courtesy of Jim Beam Distillery Ltd.    This album must be really weird.    I did a search and nothing relevant shows up.

SpinningWheel wrote:

This album must be really weird.    I did a search and nothing relevant shows up.

It's just a parody cover and not real.   "Fuxleyland" is a fictional label, if you search that you'll see some other comedic artist rendering covers like this one.

It looks like Easy 101.3 did play a Christmas song by U2.

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