Does anyone know if it is a Clear Channel thing?  Last year this station
started the Friday after Halloween, which was November 5, but when I
passed WNIC today they were already playing Christmas music.





On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, John Miller wrote:

> now, the day after Thanksgiving, that I can understand and some stations
> here do that, I think they still do anyway, I listen to xm radio only now so
> I don't know about AM/FM, but they used to have one too, but November first,
> that's definitely too soon. I like Christmas music a lot but this is just to
> early.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 5:00 PM
> Subject: Re: Digital AM
>
>
> While we are on the topic of AM/FM radio and their practices, one that has
> returned extra early this year is one station owned by Clear Channel here
> in the Metro Detroit area that is already starting to play Christmas Music
> on November 1!  If you ask me that is overcommercialization right there!
>
>
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>
> On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Louis Kim Kline wrote:
>
> > Boy, they sure are here.  The signals are about 30 kHz wide, and that's
> > using an Icom R71A for the receiver, so you know it isn't lousy IF
> > filters...
> >
> > 73, de Lou K2LKK
> >
> >
> >
> > At 09:35 PM 10/30/2005 -0700, you wrote:
> > >The digital signals I am copying here in Denver are no wider than the A M
> > >signals themselves.
> > >
> > >Phil.
> > >K0NX
> >
> > Louis Kim Kline
> > A.R.S. K2LKK
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