Well, it’s official. Radio stations all over the dial are already playing non-stop Christmas music. I discovered this last night while driving home from work. I swear it gets earlier every year, because I didn’t rant about this until November 22 of last year. Mark the date as November 15, 2006, and it’s getting earlier every year. I flipped around the dial on Tuesday, but might have not hit the offending stations, so that might have been the day. But for now, we’ll stick with Black Wednesday. It was over a week ago that I noticed one station in particular was playing a Christmas song here or there, but not non-stop. Now it’s mid-November and a full week before Thanksgiving and half the dial is off-limits.
Who listens to Christmas music before Thanksgiving? No one loves Christmas music more than I do. It was playing in the house constantly when I was a kid, but not until AFTER Thanksgiving. Can anyone out there offer some guidance here? Am I on my soap box for nothing. I would love to find the ratings books for these offending stations to determine what kind of fluctuations they experience when they flip the switch to 24/7 carols. As always, if you have any of this info handy, please pass it along to The Diatribe.
