iHeartMedia has conducted a coordinated flip of over 80 local market signals to Christmas music today.
The company also announced it will host the second annual iHeartRadio Holiday Special as a virtual concert hosed by Mario Lopez and featuring performances by Kelly Clarkson, Michael Bublé, Train and Pentatonix. The show will air across the company’s AC, Hot AC and Classic Hits stations as well as a video stream on the company’s YouTube and Facebook accounts.
In addition to the previously reported flip of 96.7 WBZY Union City/Atlanta to commercial-free Christmas and “Y93” KYYY Bismarck dropping its branding after 46 years today, the list of stations that went all-Holiday hits mostly includes many stations that conduct the move annually.
- AC “Magic 98.9” KYMG Anchorage AK
- AC “Magic 96.5” WMJJ Birmingham AL
- AC “Mix 99.9” WMXC Mobile AL
- AC “Mix 96.7” WMXA Opelika AL
- AC “96.9 My-FM” 1420 WACT Tuscaloosa AL
- AC “Magic 107.9” KEZA Fayetteville AR
- AC “99.9 KEZ” KESZ Phoenix AZ
- Hot AC “My 97.1” KMIY Tucson AZ
- AC “Sunny 105.3” KBFP-FM Bakersfield CA
- AC “Sunny 102.3” KJSN Modesto CA
- AC “Soft Rock 98.9” KSOF Fresno CA
- AC “Sunny 106.3” KKLI Colorado Springs CO
- Hot AC “92.9 Tom-FM” WRDX Dover DE
- AC “Lite Rock 99.3” WLRQ Melbourne FL
- AC “Magic 107.7” WMGF Orlando FL
- AC “Sunny 98.5” WFSY Panama City FL
- CHR “Kiss 103.9” 1450 WSDV Sarasota FL (nights only)
- AC “Mix 100.7” WMTX Tampa FL
- AC “Kool 105.5” WOLL West Palm Beach FL
- AC 104.3 WBBQ Augusta GA
- Hot AC “103Q” WQGA Brunswick GA
- AC “Sunny 100.1” WGSY Columbus GA
- Classic Hits “Magic 98.1” WMGP La Grange GA
- Classic Country “97.3 The Bull Icons” 1280 WIHB Macon GA
- AC “98.7 The River” WYKZ Savannah GA
- AC 92.3 KSSK-FM/550 KSSK Honolulu HI
- Oldies “Leo 1360” KMJM Cedar Rapids IA
- AC “Mix 96” KMXG Quad Cities IA-IL
- AC “KG95” KGLI Sioux City IA
- AC “B98” KRBB Wichita KS
- AC “96.1 The River” KRVE Baton Rouge LA
- AC “Mix 93.1” WHYN-FM Springfield MA
- AC 96.1 WSRS Worcester MA
- AC “Q105” WQHQ Salisbury MD
- AC 100.3 WNIC Detroit MI
- AC “Star 105.7” WSRW-FM Grand Rapids MI
- Classic Hits “Kool 108” KQQL Minneapolis MN
- AC 105.9 KGBX Springfield MO
- AC “Magic 93.7” WMJY Biloxi MS
- AC “Mix 99.9” KMXA Minot ND
- Classic Country 930 KOGA Ogallala NE
- AC “Mix 99.5” WMAG Greensboro NC
- AC 102.3 WSUS Sussex NJ
- Classic Hits “Kool 104.5” KKFG Farmington NM
- AC “Sunny 106.5” KSNE Las Vegas NV
- AC “Mix 103.3” WMXW Binghamton NY
- AC “Sunny 102.3” WVOR Canandaigua NY
- Classic Hits 98.3 WTRY Albany NY
- AC “Q92.1” WRNQ Poughkeepsie NY
- AC “Y94” WYYY Syracuse NY
- Soft AC “Sunny 101.7” WHOF Canton OH
- Oldies 1250 WCHO Chillicothe OH
- Classic Hits “Majic 105.7” WMJI Cleveland OH
- Variety Hits “93.3 The Bus” WODC Columbus OH
- AC “Mix 98.1” WDFM Defiance OH
- AC “Mix 103.3” WMLX Lima OH
- Soft AC “107.7 The Breeze” WXXF Mansfield OH
- AC “101.5 The River” WRVF Toledo OH
- AC “Mix 98.9” WMXY Youngstown OH
- Classic Hits “94.5 3WS” WWSW Pittsburgh PA
- AC “Kiss 102.7” WKSB Williamsport PA
- AC “Y102.5” WXLY Charleston SC
- Variety Hits “104.9 Bob-FM” WYNA Myrtle Beach SC
- Classic Hits “Cool 92.5” KCOL-FM Beaumont TX
- Classic Hits “Big 93.9” KMXR Corpus Christi TX
- AC “Sunny 99.9” KTSM-FM El Paso TX
- AC “Sunny 99.1” KODA Houston TX
- AC “Q101.9” KQXT San Antonio TX
- Classic Hits “Big 95” KBGO Waco TX
- Hot AC “My 99.5” KJMY Salt Lake City UT
- AC “Mix 93.1” WSVO Harrisonburg VA
- Rhythmic AC “Movin 107.7” WMOV-FM Norfolk VA
- AC “Mix 98.1” KISC Spokane WA
- Classic Hits “Rewind 92.1” WXXM Madison WI
- Classic Hits “Mix 100” WDMX Parkersburg WV
- AC “Mix 97.3” WKWK Wheeling WV
- AC “Star 97.1” KOLT-HD2 Cheyenne WY
To celebrate its annual switch to festive music of the Christmas season across its stations nationwide, iHeartMedia today announced the second annual iHeartRadio Holiday Special, a virtual concert hosted by Mario Lopez. This special event will feature Kelly Clarkson, Michael Bublé, Train and Pentatonix performing some of the most popular holiday classics, and will broadcast across iHeartMedia’s AC, Hot AC and Classic Hits stations nationwide and on the iHeartRadio app, and video stream on iHeartRadio’s YouTube and Facebook pages on November 24 at 7 p.m. Eastern time. Watch the exclusive VR performance in the Horizon Venues app on Meta Quest.
Every holiday season, iHeartMedia converts music radio stations in its key markets to all Christmas music through Christmas Day. Each year, these stations continue to have the largest audiences of all radio stations in each market – often doubling the audience size from non-holiday programming – making iHeartMedia the No. 1 holiday music listening destination.
This season, iHeartMedia’s annual station flip to Christmas music kicks off today, November 5 at 5 p.m. local time, with more than 80 stations across the country broadcasting and streaming the season’s festive music from today’s biggest artists as well as holiday classics from Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and more around-the-clock.
“Our listeners always anxiously await the day our stations flip to Christmas music,” said Tom Poleman, Chief Programming Officer for iHeartMedia. “Kelly Clarkson, Michael Bublé, Train and Pentatonix have some of the best songs of the holiday season, and we’re excited to have them perform on our show.”
Additionally, listeners can hear even more holiday cheer anywhere they are across more than 250 platforms and 2,000 devices with the iHeartRadio app with iHeartRadio Original stations like “iHeartChristmas,” playing all the holiday favorites; “North Pole Radio,” hosted by Santa Claus and featuring a message line where kids can leave Christmas wishes for the big man himself; “iHeartChristmas Classics,” the place to hear all the timeless holiday classics; or for listeners who like to jam out, they can check out iHeartChristmas R&B, iHeartChristmas Country, iHeartChristmas Rock and more. iHeartRadio has a holiday station for every musical taste and listeners can check them out on the dedicated iHeartRadio Holiday page.
This story first appeared on radioinsight.com