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The official Christmas FM thread

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  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 25,009 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    ChristmasFM socials have me so excited for tomorrow. They are so excited for go live!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,537 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Happy FM launch day!!

    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Registered Users Posts: 220 ✭✭Andrew93


    What time is launch today 12? trying to clear my calendar to catch it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,160 ✭✭✭Lord Spence


    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



  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 25,009 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Launch is indeed 12pm, block your diary with a meeting request.



  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 25,009 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Emily Brew is one of the people hosting the opening show 12pm, delighted for her as her weekend show on Radio Nova is great and she has been a huge part of ChristmasFM for years now!



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,659 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    Less than one hour to go! 😀



  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 25,009 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    15 Minute warning!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,537 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    oooh the anticipation!!! 😀

    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭tscul32


    Yay



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,537 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    & official first song for 2023 is.....


    Andy Williams!!

    Its the most wonderful time of the year!!

    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Registered Users Posts: 4,693 ✭✭✭SleetAndSnow


    It's the most wonderful time of the year! - it really is 🎅🎅



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,659 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    Wooooooohoooooo 😁



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,140 ✭✭✭pigtail33


    It's CHRIIIIIIIIIISTMAAAAAAAAAAS!!!!



  • Registered Users Posts: 148 ✭✭ClaudeVercetti


    We are live!🎅



  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 25,009 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    A ChristmasFM classic, where does that rank now DVB for most used for 1st song?



  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 25,009 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    It really feels like Christmas has started now!! 😃



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,537 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    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.

    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 25,009 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Straight into The Pogues now, starting strong!



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  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 25,009 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,537 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Ah lads.... mood just lifted massively!!

    ITS CHRISTMAS!!!!

    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,537 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 25,009 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Same here grinning like an eejit here in the office.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭tscul32


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,537 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Had to go straight onto a teams meeting re: billings after FONY but didn't mind a jot!

    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




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  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 25,009 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Hard to believe this is the 16th year ChristmasFM has operated. Here's to 16 more, it wouldn't be Christmas without it!



  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 25,009 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    One for our Radio expert @Declan A Walsh has Keith Shanley retired? He used to do the launch show and he's not on the schedule this year either.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,971 ✭✭✭SarahLil


    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



  • Registered Users Posts: 515 ✭✭✭noplacehere


    God I LOVE Christmas fm. Caught the launch for the first time in a while and the kids were so excited hopping in the car on the way home to hear it



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,211 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    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.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭tscul32


    I had forgotten how much of a good mood Christmas FM can put you in first thing in the morning 😁



  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 25,009 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Completely agree was listening to it on my walk this morning lovely experience! Say what you want but there is nothing like the live broadcasts, no playlist or warm up shows can touch it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,971 ✭✭✭SarahLil


    It certainly does put you in good form first thing in the morning, you can’t beat the live broadcasts

    I hope Keith Shanley makes an appearance, will Garvan be on this year love him on the breakfast show ?



  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 25,009 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Garvan is scheduled for tomorrow's breakfast show. I imagine he'll be back on next week as well.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,971 ✭✭✭SarahLil




  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 25,009 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    If Keith Shanley is gone I wished they gave him a chance to do a final show, I'm trying to recall last year did he sign off one of his shows as his last ever ChristmasFM broadcast and bowed out? He was synonymous with kicking off ChristmasFM, then the breakfast show then he moved to lunch times.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,211 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    I heard Mark Fennell this morning. I think he did a good job. I have to say that I liked the particular mix of songs when I was listening.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,971 ✭✭✭SarahLil


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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,537 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    100%

    Was great having it in the car on my drive in to the office this morning. Love having it in the car for the commute.

    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,537 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    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 will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,476 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 25,009 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    God the journal that's like asking the lads in After Hours if they listen.... what's a poll like that trying to achieve other than take money away from charities?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,476 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Well I suppose it indirectly also alerts people that Christmas FM is back. But yeah, the poll results are indicative of a certain demographic only...

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,537 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    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 will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Registered Users Posts: 123 ✭✭Lord Nelson


    I think he originally moved from breakfast due to a hectic gigging schedule in December meaning only three hours sleep before hitting the road again not that you’d know it listening to him. I suspect it’s just a matter of prioritising but I’m sure someone here will have the answer.



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,659 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    If some people can start planning their summer holidays in January, what's wrong with starting to plan for Christmas in mid October? Plus, the longer you plan for the festive season, the easier it is financially!



  • Registered Users Posts: 123 ✭✭Lord Nelson


    Looking at this week’s schedule, there seems to be quite a bit of “new blood”. I gather Ray Jackson decided to retire from on air duties at the beginning of covid. The other founders aren’t mentioned in the schedule except Garvan and even then he’s only doing one show. Might be a case of stepping back after 16 years of being front and centre?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,211 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92 ✭✭Coupon King


    Just Suffered Through Taylor Swifts Last Christmas, It really does sound like She's Gargling Mouth Wash and Singing at the same time. its HORRENDOUS!!

    Anyone heard Holy Jolly Dolly yet??? Hopefully they skip it this year..



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 181 ✭✭Conqueror


    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



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