The GHZ Forum

As you know, I work as a part-time DJ at an oldies station in Toledo. No big whoop, it's pretty fun; beats flipping burgers, anyway.

Well, usually when I work, it's the simplest thing in the world. Talk for a little bit, press a button, a song from the computer plays, rinse and repeat. Of course, goof off on the internet in-between, wasting precious hours of my life scouring the GHZ for an appropriate place to put a dick joke.

Now, though, I'm going to have to actually... work! The computer is down, and I'm old schooling it, baby. Frantically throwing in CDs and carts at the last second, making the song list up as I go along. It's not as fun as it sounds.

Unfortunately, all we're playing right now is fucking shitty Christmas music. As if our playlist wasn't limited enough, we had to switch to an all-Christmas music format until the 26th (a corporate decision - as if anything Christmas wouldn't be). As if that selection weren't limited enough, now we only have what's on CD, losing the two dozen or so songs that were only on the computer. And we only have one CD player! ARGH!

On top of it, most of the old cranky listeners are pissed off that they aren't getting their daily fix of Tommy James or the Turtles, so I'm also having to constantly take calls asking me "Why the hell are you playing Christmas music?! How long is this going to keep going? I'm going to listen to another station now because I hate you."

Pray for me.

Can do. Y'know, a little drink here and there never made taking complaints any harder...

That's crazy. Most radio stations only play about an hour to two hours of Christmas a day for most of December. They usually don't switch over to all Christmas music till the 20th.

What a nutty decision.

People are going to get sick of your station pretty fast. Not to mention that you've basically lost all of your Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Wiccan, and atheist listeners.

But they don't have money to buy presents anyways. *rollseyes*

You're not alone. Gold 104.5 (Indianapolis) was doing the same thing when I was in Indiana recently, and <i>before</i> Thanksgiving! Only they're a professional station. ¬_¬
Here, we have a station that doesn't start playing Christmas music until 5pm...no, wait I just found out they're playing it 24/7 also. Jeez...

Good luck.

Zeta wrote:Not to mention that you've basically lost all of atheist listeners.

Atheists celebrate Christmas too, y'know. And most Christmas music isn't even about Jesus in any way.

Zeta wrote:People are going to get sick of your station pretty fast. Not to mention that you've basically lost all of your Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Wiccan, and atheist listeners.

Yes, a national, traditional holiday alienates all non-Xians. Just like President's Day alienates anarchists, Civil Rights Day alienates white supremists, Mother's Day alienates non-mothers, Father's Day alienates non-fathers, and Arbor Day alienates non-tree huggers.

Wow, I edited this post more than TSS.

Yeah, we started before Thanksgiving, too, Spazz. It sucks.

And you're right, Zeta, we've lost a lot of listeners. Tons of people have been calling in and saying that they're not going to listen until we're done with this shit.

Nobody's happy about it, none of the jocks and none of the listeners. The decision wasn't made from anyone in the area, it came from the corporate headquarters in Atlanta, yet they think they know how to boost Toledo's numbers.

And really, even if does boost the numbers a little bit, we've damaged our reputation in the process. We catered to the soccer mom audience and drove away our core listeners. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

Only they're a professional station.

Yeah, this one is, too. A college radio station would have too much integrity to sell out like this.


Oh yeah, I almost forgot - the reason the power went out here is because a squirrel chewed through a power line or something. I guess his frying carcass is still lying in the parking lot.

I'm just saying it's going to get on the nerves of those who don't celebrate.

I do, secularly - but it would still piss me ff if my favorite station switched over to 24-hour X-mas.

Delphine wrote:Wow, I edited this post more that TSS.

You mean "than." >_^

I KNOW NOT OF WHICH YOU SPEAK.

OOOH! Play "They Might Be Giants" and scare the old people!

If I hear Little Drummer Boy, Jingle Bell Rock or Sleigh Ride again, someone is going to have to die.

And it's going to be Ultimate_Tails466.

Sleigh Ride's the best Christmas song ever.

Play "Dreidel Dreidel Dreidel".

Just for kicks.

Zeta wrote:Sleigh Ride's the best Christmas song ever.

Amen
...
I mean-Right on! ^_^;

Play something about Kwanzaa, as a salute to the Kwanzaa Bot. You know, one of those old Kwanzaa hymns.

Yes, one channel playing christmas music non-stop is bad, but not nearly as bad as two radio stations playing christmas music non-stop. Here in the Metro-Detroit area (yes, the one in Michigan) two of the bigger stations have been playing the non-stop playlist since the 6th of November.

The only reason a station would switch over to an all-christmas playlist is not to entertain their regular listeners for almost two months with the same fifteen songs, but so that the stations will be played in department stores and other similar places of buisness. With the Christmas season starting earlier every year, these format changes will happen even quicker. I wouldn't be surprised if three stations do it here next year, even earlier...

I fucking hate Kwanza.

I had thought that it was some ancient African holiday filled with religious and cultural signifigance.


In truth, it was a holiday that someone pulled out of their ass in 1960's America. Seriously, it's less than 50 years old. I have relatives older than it.

They just pulled a holiday out of their ass because they wanted something for their minority. That's idiotic, man. I mean, what if I started running around and came up with "Canaloni Day" and started acting like it was an ancient Italian Tradition. Or if I started telling everybody that January 10th was "New Queers" - the homosexual New Year's that's been celebrated since the 10th century.

I get the whole Black Pride thing, but "A" - they already have the entire month of February, and "B" - if they're going to do something like this - at least make it an actual holiday that was celebrated in Africa at some point in the past.

Sorry for the rant, but it's just the way I feel . . .

No no, that was the joke.

Zeta wrote:"A" - they already have the entire month of February

Which is incedentally the shortest month of the year. No offence.

*snort* I never noticed that. Good point.

Someone in my Am Lit class told me that the Statue of Liberty was originally that of a black woman, but it was changed after France gave it to us. <a href="http://www.endex.com/gf/buildings/liber ... ">Articles on it</a>.

This is one of the many reasons that I don't listen to FM radio. At all.

plasticwingsband wrote:This is one of the many reasons that I don't listen to FM radio. At all.

I get most of my music from the internet. i r teh pirat

This is one of the many reasons that I don't listen to FM radio. At all.

Me either. I can't stand commercial radio.

Isn't it ironic?

'Tis. While I'd love to work at a radio station myself, I really can't stand listening to it.

Which is incedentally the shortest month of the year. No offence.

Some people don't even get a month. Why is there a month for black people anyway? All it is segregation. Until there is Red-Head Month and Blue-Eyed Month, I will never understand the point of Black Skin Month.

chriscaffee wrote:

Which is incedentally the shortest month of the year. No offence.

Some people don't even get a month. Why is there a month for black people anyway? All it is segregation. Until there is Red-Head Month and Blue-Eyed Month, I will never understand the point of Black Skin Month.

Red-headed people weren't enslaved. No one goes around calling blue-eyed people Blueggers. Er, which is supposed to be a play on nigger, but it just looks like booger.