The official Christmas FM thread

Happy FM launch day!!

Christmas FM launch day is also the offical launch day of playing Christmas songs in my house, thats it now until the 27th! Hoping for fairytale for first song

Yay

It's CHRIIIIIIIIIISTMAAAAAAAAAAS!!!!

4th time its been used. 2011, 2015, last year & now this year.

Bing Crosby's 'Its beginning to look like Christmas' still in the lead with 6 times used as first song.

Spreadsheet already updated!! 🤫

First time in years that I've heard the launch live. Got the first song in and the flooring guys arrived to fix some stuff so only back to it now. Time to switch the car over too.

Manic morning caught Fairytale of New York I actually thought that was the first song 😂 I’ll tune in shortly

I imagine happy boys and girls listening in this afternoon after school

I have not seen or heard anything about Keith. It does say that the schedule is subject to say. I heard Mike Maloney presenting last week online on Christmas FM and he is not on the schedule, so maybe Keith is taking a back seat and presenting the odd show. Every year Paul Shepherd, aka Ray Jackson, turns up randomly over weekends, so Keith might do the same. If he does not turn up this year, this will be the first time in its history! That said, if you click on Our Team, Keith Shanley still comes up.

As regards Emily Brew and Radio Nova, the schedule also includes:

Lar Flynn: Christmas FM regular and recently added presenter to Nova ,

Mark Noble: recent addition to Nova and new to Christmas FM and

Paul McGuinness: up to recently a presenter on Nova and new to Christmas FM.

Work and life distracted me today, but I will give Christmas FM a listen during tomorrow.

Massive fan of Keith here, hopefully he will be on the airwaves this season

In terms of presenters, I just hope that the presenter for the last FM show on Dec 27th is up to scratch, the last couple of years the close out show has been handled kinda poorly with the DJ still talking when the signal cuts & suchlike. Every other year it was handled really well with the closing song & silence, but the last couple have see half of extra random songs & more chat etc.

I'm pretty sure I say this (or something similar) every year.

I just don't get the vitriol towards christmas by so many on AH. Like seriously, how is it harming anyone, just ignore it until its reaches your own predetermined time that anything christmas related is acceptable, and if that date is never then simply leave the rest of us who do like it to it?

I don't get the constant requirement for people to be angered, offended or outraged by stuff nowadays, there's more than enough toxicity in the world as it is, tfar more deserving than Christmas & the many positives it brings to so many.

I think Ray Jackson (Paul Shepherd) has turned up a couple of times since Covid arrived. I could be wrong of course as Covid messed up our memories! I am sure I heard Daragh O'Sullivan a couple of times, but Covid...you know! Water Hegarty usually turns up at some stage, if only to thank everyone.

It was on at 8:20 this morning. Seems to be played once a day. https://ukradiolive.com/christmas-fm/playlist

Conversely, Burl Ives' version gets an outing every four hours