Scooter2k7 Member Username: Scooter2k7
Post Number: 43 Registered: 10-2007
| Posted on Thursday, December 27, 2007 - 9:56 pm: | |
Can someone explain to me why WNIC has to play Christmas music the day after Halloween, but on the day after Christmas they play their regular stuff? The Christmas season starts on Christmas! I want to hear Christmas music now, not on November 8th. And they say that Christmas has lost all meaning! |
Smogboy Member Username: Smogboy
Post Number: 6768 Registered: 11-2004
| Posted on Thursday, December 27, 2007 - 9:58 pm: | |
Technically it's AFTER Christmas already... so why not back to their regular programming? |
Kid_dynamite Member Username: Kid_dynamite
Post Number: 424 Registered: 06-2007
| Posted on Thursday, December 27, 2007 - 10:00 pm: | |
Uh, technically, Christmas is 12 days long. |
Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 1220 Registered: 09-2007
| Posted on Thursday, December 27, 2007 - 10:02 pm: | |
"Can someone explain to me why WNIC has to play Christmas music the day after Halloween, but on the day after Christmas they play their regular stuff? The Christmas season starts on Christmas! I want to hear Christmas music now, not on November 8th. And they say that Christmas has lost all meaning!" Yeah, hopefully they will start with their Flashback weekends this Saturday. That's the only thing I loved on WNIC (mainly on Sunday because I listen to Old Skool Saturdays on WGPR Saturdays). They should have added variety to it like the Urban Contemp. stations did. (Message edited by DetroitRise on December 27, 2007) |
Scooter2k7 Member Username: Scooter2k7
Post Number: 44 Registered: 10-2007
| Posted on Thursday, December 27, 2007 - 10:03 pm: | |
According to all the stores it is because everyone is done buying a bunch of crap that will be in the trash by March. Technically it is not, the Christmas season is now. |
Bob Member Username: Bob
Post Number: 1620 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Thursday, December 27, 2007 - 10:05 pm: | |
ONe would have to assume it is a business decision. Start playing Christmas music after Halloween. The stores start selling Christmas stuff after Halloween. Stores play WNIC is their store for Christmas music and you have ratings. |
Border5150 Member Username: Border5150
Post Number: 184 Registered: 03-2004
| Posted on Thursday, December 27, 2007 - 11:41 pm: | |
Maybe WNIC should start play ing Christmas music the week before Thanksgiving (which is when most mall Santas show up) and then play it through December. I mean, at this point, whats one more week? |
Detroithabitater Member Username: Detroithabitater
Post Number: 100 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Friday, December 28, 2007 - 1:42 am: | |
....in the Roman Catholic tradition Christmas is 20 days long.... |
Rjlj Member Username: Rjlj
Post Number: 446 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Friday, December 28, 2007 - 2:32 am: | |
Don't listen to WNIC. They are the devil. |
Reddog289 Member Username: Reddog289
Post Number: 152 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Friday, December 28, 2007 - 2:47 am: | |
i heard enuff christmas music last friday, after 4hours they started playing the same songs again. i said to myself "and it was just halloween when this stuff came on" 4 more days later they were playing the same songs every 4 hours |
Hpgrmln Member Username: Hpgrmln
Post Number: 324 Registered: 06-2007
| Posted on Friday, December 28, 2007 - 7:55 am: | |
Adult Contemporary is pretty much dead. Everyone I know who listens to Wnic or Magic complained about hearing the same songs everyday. Back in the late-80's, I was only in elementary school but I actively listened to the radio. We had WLTI (93.1) and 92.3-92 Music in addition to Wnic. The playlists were vast and the stations were great to listen to. Its not like that anymore. Then again, times have changed. Few people want to hear Olivia Newton-john or Seals and Crofts nowadays. So now we get repetition. I'm glad I was able to hear the golden days of AC radio while I had the chance. |
Gingellgirl Member Username: Gingellgirl
Post Number: 110 Registered: 04-2007
| Posted on Friday, December 28, 2007 - 9:28 am: | |
If you want to hear Christmas music, log on to www.pandora.com and click on genre stations. It doesn't cost a thing. All you have to do is create an account. I listen all day long. |
Cambrian Member Username: Cambrian
Post Number: 1810 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Friday, December 28, 2007 - 9:41 am: | |
They really need to expand their play list of X -mas music. I too got tired of the four hour rotation of the same music. |
56packman Member Username: 56packman
Post Number: 1955 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Friday, December 28, 2007 - 10:54 am: | |
Christmas is over, WNIC is back to secretary rock format. |
Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 1225 Registered: 09-2007
| Posted on Friday, December 28, 2007 - 10:59 am: | |
Great. Can't wait until Sunday! |
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd
Post Number: 1708 Registered: 07-2004
| Posted on Friday, December 28, 2007 - 11:22 am: | |
Um, because they can't goad you into buying more stuff, so they stop buying X-mas ads, and Christmas is no longer profitable. |
Southwestmap Member Username: Southwestmap
Post Number: 940 Registered: 01-2005
| Posted on Friday, December 28, 2007 - 2:31 pm: | |
I can't stand it! The same tinny, cheap songs, hour after hour, everywhere I go. Even the pet food store. Every year my dread goes. That station is a plague. |
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd
Post Number: 1711 Registered: 07-2004
| Posted on Friday, December 28, 2007 - 2:33 pm: | |
Ding Dong Ding Dong Ding Dong *sigh* (not feeling the holly, or the jolly, anymore) |
Smogboy Member Username: Smogboy
Post Number: 6770 Registered: 11-2004
| Posted on Friday, December 28, 2007 - 3:45 pm: | |
What I truly miss is what WDET (yeah let's beat that dead horse issue again) played during Christmas. They play some of the more obscure holiday tracks by some famous and not so famous artists, as opposed to the same old drudgery you hear on WNIC hour after hour. I miss the days when Detroit radio was a little daring, would play stuff you couldn't hear anywhere else, and was even educational to my musical palette. |
Wanderinglady Member Username: Wanderinglady
Post Number: 23 Registered: 10-2007
| Posted on Friday, December 28, 2007 - 5:31 pm: | |
Yeah, Smogboy, I remember when Detroit radio was a little daring, too. The Electrifyin' Mojo's idea of a Christmas song would have been Prince's "Another Lonely Christmas". I don't know about WNIC, but the local all-Christmas station here in L.A. (which started playing Christmas songs around NOVEMBER 8TH, if I recall correctly) did not play any Motown Christmas songs, except for Stevie Wonder's "Someday at Christmas". And the only reason why I can possibly think this was played is because it's an anti-war song. This meant I had to hope that an oldies or an R-n-B station would play one. I have a CD of Christmas songs (with a few Motown songs), but it just wasn't the same. I had to resort to listening to the Temptations' version of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" on YouTube. Bah, Humbug! |
Andylinn Member Username: Andylinn
Post Number: 667 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Friday, December 28, 2007 - 5:50 pm: | |
YES! back to FLASH BACK WEEKENDS... sweet. i love that stuff! |
Reddog289 Member Username: Reddog289
Post Number: 161 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Saturday, December 29, 2007 - 3:39 am: | |
Little Steven,s underground garage played some good christmas toons, sunday on csx. too bad i had to hear it in and outta the buick. |
Yaktown Member Username: Yaktown
Post Number: 285 Registered: 02-2006
| Posted on Saturday, December 29, 2007 - 9:33 am: | |
They have a link on their web page where you may listen to Christmas music ad nauseum. http://wnic.com/cc-common/hdra dio/ |