Non-stop Christmas Music Started on One Radio Station Friday Night

Ugh. Will NOT listen until the day AFTER Thanksgiving! This drives me bonkers. I prefer to enjoy O. holiday at a time.

I'm with you. It's too early for Christmas music. 100.3 WNIC used to start the Christmas songs on Nov. 1 right after Halloween ended at 12:00 a.m. Now, 105.1 is playing Christmas music before Halloween. I won't listen to it until after Halloween.

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I love it! I listen to Christmas music all year round...it makes me happy. I work at our church and it's funny b/c everyone knows if they come into the office and Christmas music is on, I'm having a tough day or stressed and it puts me in a much better mood. :o) To each their own though. I can't wait for it to start in Kansas City! Bring it on. Just listen to other stations until you're ready for it.

That drives me absolutely nuts, and I love Christmas music! Sometimes I wonder if it's a ploy to turn people off to it.

I won't start listening until the day after Thanksgiving, at the earliest.

Having been into crafts and craft fairs as a vendor, sewing and such, I have been used to Christmas themed stuff several months out of the year. We need Christmas fabric in June to have enough time to make stuff to sell in Oct and Nov. I know not everyone wants to be bombarded with it so early but it puts me in a great mood and I dont mind hearing it this early. Im not real big on Halloween so I like Christmas now. The other night I was putting my grand daughter to bed and singing songs. I ran out of ideas for nursery rhymes, and started on Christmas carols,,lol She loved it when I sang Santa Clause is Coming to Town.

I have mixed feelings.

I like Christmas music a lot! But I don't want to be bored with it by the time the day arrives. And many stations play the same old stuff; "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer," and "Merry Christmas/War is Over" get old really fast. So I like a variety I can make myself.

I also don't like the fact that the Christmas season is pushed so early by the stores. On the other hand, I sometimes have people overseas to shop for and then I'm glad the stores are stocked for Christmas so early!

I play lots of my own Christmas music CDs at home, without waiting for radio stations to select it for me. My tastes tend to run to the classical, although not exclusively. But I try to wait to start until after Thanksgiving, because I want *that* holiday to be important in itself.

Where I live, there is a publicly-supported classical radio station that starts their Christmas music about a week or so into December. They start with a Christmas number in their menu every 60 minutes or so, and work up to Christmas music all day on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

My husband is a huge Sirius radio fan, and he gives me the Christmas music station numbers. They can be interesting. And last year there was a Chanukah station, too, and I had never heard any Chanukah music before.

It might be interesting for some mama to post a question: What five Christmas songs are you most enjoying this year? But please, please, do it in December! :^D

Oh boy....as a dance teacher; I have to start listening to Christmas music in September to prepare to start teaching dances in October! It is one long road for me! I hear Christmas music September-December. I hear it about 8 hours a week if not more with dance. Lucky you all can change the radio stations! I cannot with dance classes! Hehe.

Oh and I saw a Christmas tree in the mall today. I was shocked! If I didn't teach dance, I'd probably start listening to Christmas music in December.

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Gah! Is it 103.7 or whatever it is? I won't listen until after Thanksgiving! And even then, I will get tired of the same songs over and over. I have Pandora Internet Radio on my computer and they have a number of different Christmas music stations. I really like the folk music one and I never get sick of it! We Sirius in the car too and it has a number of different Christmas music channels but I don't think they come on until Thanksgiving.

Wonder if the folks out east might enjoy some early Christmas music with all the early snow they are getting!

There is a station in the city I grew up in that starts it the day after Thanksgiving. That seems like a good time to me, since you're done with all the other "major" holidays. So, that's when I typically start.

Already are you kidding? I thought the stations usually start like the day after Thanksgiving. I see Christmas stuff out on the shelves already, but they had Halloween stuff out in August.

December 1st for me and all evidence of Christmas better be gone (in my home) on the 26th!!

I love Christmas music and never understood why we can only listen to songs about Christ's birth during a certain time period.

that is GREAT! I cant believe that its already begun, I am having a hard time excepting all the christmas stuff that was up in September. I think its a ploy also. I Agree with Angela about that.

I have a one holiday at a time rule. When I was younger and didn't have so many people to buy for I would stop shopping when the Christmas stuff came out before Thanksgiving (now it is out before Halloween!!!) I will buy gifts early and am usually done with my shopping by black friday but I don't usually buy Christmas-specific things till after Thanksgiving (cards, decorations, etc.). I will allow some of the outside stuff to be put up before thanksgiving as it needs to get into the ground before it freezes, but it isn't turned on till the day after Thanksgiving and is only allowed on until New Years Eve. So I won't be listening to that station until AFTER Thanksgiving, if enough poeple turn it off they won't stat so early next year.

I'm hearing Christmas music now - but only because my son is in band at school and they are practicing music for their Christmas concert on Dec 17th.
I'm not ready to hear Christmas music from anywhere else.
If I did, by the time Christmas really does get here, I'm so tired of it I'm ready for the season to be over already.
The super market already has Christmas stuff on a few shelves as Halloween stuff if getting ready to go to half price.
Stores/stations are pumping it up to get Christmas shopping going early as possible.
Some stores live all year on what they make during this season and they are hurting badly right now.
Despite the marketing, I still shop on a budget and do not go into debt for any holiday.

I don't listen before Thanksgiving. Before Halloween is just NUTS!

LuvMyFamily and I are kindred spirits....Christmas songs lift my spirits year-round. I sang "Silent Night" and "Noel" to my son to rock him to sleep as a baby.

Dec 26th is the most depressing day to drive after hearing WNIC for months and then have regular music. Need to put some CDs in my car to keep the season going.

Decorations go up the week of Thanksgiving in my house....I like to turn off all the regular lights and leave the trees lit in the evening....just something calming and wonderful about Christmas lights for me.

The good news: there are lots of radio stations to choose from. Better yet, CDs or ipods.
Thanksgiving evening, we pull stuff down from the attic and discuss things, but do not "start" with the decorating or music or anything else until the day after Thanksgiving. (Shopping is a different story, I do a little here and there for months).

I dont usually get very Christmasy until Dec 1. And by the second week I once again know all the Christmas songs by heart. October is awfully early for Christmas music. Stores start playing it close to Thanksgiving since it's a way to get people to BUY more stuff.

urgh! i was upset when I saw Christmas stuff up in July and August...our radio stations here at least wait until the DAY AFTER THANKSGIVING to do this to us.

While I love Christmas music - there's only so many times I can hear "rockin' around the Christmas tree"....

Call them and complain. They might listen!!