The official Christmas FM thread

Am I in the minority that I love I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas 🤔 I sing it so much around the house that the wife bought me a little toy hippo as a joke a few years ago 😂

Nope, my 3 year old loves it.

I had Christmas FM briefly this morning. I heard Sheryl Crow's cover of Run Rudolph Run. I would not mind hearing that again during its license run.

Dipped into Christmas FM regular this afternoon and this came up as second song.... no thanks! Instantly went back to classical & carols.

I loved it for a bit after my kids sang it in a school Christmas choir, but there was one year it was played to death on Christmas FM and it wore thin for me. A couple of quiet years and I'm sure I'd go back to enjoying it.

Doubt I could ever say that of a few others though.

I was listening online for the last 15 minutes until Last Christmas by Wham came in - had to turn it off then as I have heard that song too much over the years and will no doubt hear it again! Anyway, I particularly enjoyed 2000 Miles by The Pretenders and Merry Christmas Baby by Otis Redding. Obviously the former gets plenty of airplay every year, but the latter is one of those gems that I hear from time to time on Christmas FM and nowhere else. I hope I hear a bit more of that over the next month and a half. Bruce Springsteen's version gets some airplay every year and I quite like that one too.

I heard Karl Dawson, who has presented on Christmas FM for the last few years, being interviewed on Newstalk yesterday by Kieran Cuddihy. He was interviewed because he got a lot of reaction for putting up his Christmas tree early. Karl was introduced as the breakfast presenter of 98FM and gave a number of reasons why he had the tree up so early this year. I thought he might have mentioned Christmas FM as another reason, but he never mentioned it at all! Maybe he is no longer involved with Christmas FM - I will look/listen out for him!

I like that song and indeed that film!

WFH today s have Christmas FM for company before the teams meetings start, already had my first rendition of Elmo & Patsy being run over by a reindeer (grand for the first time, hopefully not the first of dozens as per 2021) but had 'Once upon a Christmas song' too which I think is great and rarely hear after the FM launch.

Been tuning in this week while cooking dinner it’s great hearing presenters

I can’t wait to see Xmas on the dashboard in the car

Teething toddler here yesterday I couldn’t get much done no nap, so set the alarm for some tidying for 20 minutes and blasted Christmas FM, the 2 of us had a great time bopping around 😂 sometimes you just got to do what you got to do

Just back from a site meeting, so have put Christmas FM again, greeted by my personal favourite, Andy Williams 'The most wonderful time of the year'...

All I'm missing now is the Guinness advert to tell me its so.....

Kylie's 'At Christmas' just came on, had forgotten what an underrated little song that is.

Had it on this morning around 9 am I heard stop the Calvary, stomped around the kitchen dancing with the LO she seemed to enjoy it

Listened to this on the app on Saturday when putting up the decorations, really helped with getting into the spirit.

My 9 year old goddaughter keeps pressing the Xmas Fm button on the car radio in the hope they com win early even though I’ve told her they won’t be on until next week 🤣🤣

I came across it in its very first year - 2008. I was coming to it from a radio anorak perspective. For example, a number of people involved had previously been connected to other temporary licensed stations.

Edit: if you go back to Page 1 of this thread, you will see this thread was set up by Darragh in 2009 (Darragh O'Sullivan I believe- one of the principals of Christmas FM). It is interesting to see that it was on 100.3 FM in Dublin and 106.7 in Cork at the time - it was initially a Dublin-only station on FM in 2008. They did have an online presence. 100.3 FM has been occupied by Radio Nova since 2010.

What time is the launch?