MY WIFE IS very clear about one thing this time of year: the radio should be on at all times and Christmas music should be wafting throughout the house. The problem we have this year is that we can't find any french radio stations that play non-stop Christmas music like her beloved WASH-FM back in DC.
[Sidenote: Look, I love Christmas as much as the next guy, but am I the only one noticing that these stations are starting to play holiday music earlier and earlier? It used to be that the Christmas music started about 2 weeks before the 25th of December. Then it got moved back to the day after Thanksgiving. But I swear that last year the radio station we listen to for holiday music starting playing Jingle Bells shortly after Labor Day. It's getting ridiculous. It wouldn't be so bad if the stations would stop playing what can only be considered fairly average renditions of classic Christmas songs. Note to the music world: if I don't like your normal albums, I'm not going to like your Christmas albums. I'm talking to you Gloria Estefan. But I digress...]
So Kerri and the kids were getting worried that they wouldn't get their Christmas music. But it suddenly dawned on them that we could probably get WASH-FM on the internet. Well, due to complicated FCC regulations, we can't since our server is located in Europe. But we can get...Canadian radio stations!! So we now have Toronto's EZ Rock 97.3 FM playing on the computer every day. And even I must admit that it's nice to have Christmas music playing this time of year.
And to our good friends from Oshawa, Ontario -- Jim and Dana -- that means if you tune in to 97.3 we'll be listening to the same station. Gotta love the internet age!
CJS
4 comments :
What a coincidence!! We were out in the van last night and Dana had the radio set to 97.3 because of the X-mas music. Of course, my move to change the station for a quick sports update was met with howls of protest from my girlies!!! Happy listening!!
Don't let them push you around, Jim. If you need to find out the Maple Leafs score (or Habs) then you need to be a man and get those scores. You can do it!
To add to your warm and fuzzy feelings of Christmas We were thinking of packing up and shipping you Mr. Frosty (do you remember him...the one who shakes his groove thing or his bootylicious behind.) As we speak the student workers are packing him up...but the honest truth is that we are shipping him because we can no longer stand him. I have hid the batteries 3 times already. By the way...we are just kiddin about sending him...I would never wish such horrors on anyone. Merry Christmas To you and your family, from You family at enrollment Services
i'm very late on this, but do you know "riviera-radio"?
it's on FM 1065.5, totally english-speaking, and they used to play chritsmas songs(old and modern) at least a week or two before xmas;
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