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10/31: The Fish goes xmas for a day
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
If you’re hearing Christmas music today on 104.7/The Fish, it doesn’t mean they are staying Christmas for the next eight weeks. No, it’s a day-long stunt of Dean Martin and Mel Torme action for Halloween. Here’s the note I got from the Fish GM Mike Moran:
It’s a trick and a treat! We thought it would be a fun idea to take advantage of the ‘oddity’ of playing Christmas music on Halloween to remind everyone that starting on Thanksgiving 104.7 The Fish is the station to listen to for all-Christmas Music.
Another cool thing is that Kevin and Taylor in the Morning challenged listeners to get in the Christmas spirit and donate to help repair Travelers Rest Baptist Church which was damaged by vandals yesterday. By the end of the morning show Fish listeners had given raised almost $7,000 to erase racist graffiti and help repair the church van.
With Lite gone as the Christmas station, that still leaves two. B98.5 is certain to start Christmas, too, though I’m told they won’t be doing any previews before Thanksgiving, the typical time when xmas stations go full time.
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By Flo Jean
October 31, 2007 1:28 PM | Link to this
Playing music celebrating the birth of their savior on Halloween. That’s nice.
By Karen C
October 31, 2007 3:21 PM | Link to this
I love Christmas music! C’mon Richard, let’s practice, “the greeting cards have all been sent, the Chritmas rush is through”…
By Tom
November 1, 2007 8:55 AM | Link to this
When Lite pulled the rug out from the Christmas music last season was the last time I listened to 94.9.
“Bull” is right.
By Jeff
November 1, 2007 9:22 AM | Link to this
1) We no longer have a true “Christian” station to listen to in Atlanta. I noted this when Fish started adding Los Lonely Boy’s How Far is Heaven to their main rotation, but in the years since it has only gone further downhill.
2) With the above noted, why do they even bother playing all-Christmas music between Thanksgiving and Christmas? They are just another secular station. Seems to me like they knew changes were coming at 94.9 and were only trying to position themselves to take over that small market.
3) Even as a Christian, I get about sick and tired of hearing Christmas music after hearing about 3 songs. I get enough in church without having to be bored to tears on the radio.
4) And I think I may be in a slight majority here, but back when I lived in Atlanta and listened to The Fish regularly, there was always roughly one month of the year when I NEVER turned my radio to that position on the dial: between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
By Brian
November 1, 2007 12:02 PM | Link to this
People who can find offense with a nice, clean song like “Heaven” by Los Lonely Boys should have their radios taken away from them. Rather than celebrate a mainstream act that doesn’t use curses or suggestive lyrics in their music they choose to crap on the station that dares play such a song.
Go bury your head and don’t listen and while you’re at it claim that Halloween isn’t right either, while I YAWN away to your tiresome, so-called “Christian” platitudes.
By dallaschris
November 1, 2007 12:46 PM | Link to this
Before you comment, get your facts straight. The version of “Heaven” on the Fish is by a Christian band called Salvador.
By Brian
November 1, 2007 12:59 PM | Link to this
104.7 has indeed played the Los Lonely Boys version as well.
By opieandy
November 9, 2007 8:49 AM | Link to this
Brian, you sound like a sweet person. Thanks for sharing.
104.7 has played several other secular songs, and I don’t even listen to the radio much, so there may be many more. I have heard Fray’s “How to Save a Life” and Daughtry’s “Home.”
It has indeed turned into a semi-secular station.
Brian’s attitude notwithstanding, there is nothing wrong with Christians wanting a true Christian station instead of a watered-down “nonoffensive music” station.