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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Altrok Adds Christmas Music, Takes The Holidays Off

We've added about six Christmas songs per hour to our Altrok 90.5 HD2 rotation, and we'll head into A Vaguely Dysfunctional 48 Hours Of Christmas starting at Midnight on Christmas Eve Eve (12:00am December 24 to 11:59pm December 25.)

Then we'll splatter the station with the best tracks from 2010, from midnight December 26 to the moment the New Year starts.

For our Friday night FM shows, however, we're taking a break - two very special program blocks, 90.5 The Night's 24 Hours of Christmas on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, and The Top 90 Albums Of 2010 over New Year's, will take precedence over the Altrok Radio FM Showcase (and, actually, Car Talk, Forward Into The Past, and eTown, so we're in good company.)

We'll go back to our regular format on New Year's Day, and our first show of the New Year will be on January 8...stay tuned to Altrok 90.5 HD2 'til then, 'cause we've always got something interesting to play (and you're looking for "interesting", right?)

Here, for no related reason (outside of the season) is an amusing video...

1 Comments:

TechChick said...: I'm loving the selections of Christmas tunes!! I've never heard a lot of these and they are great :) Happy Holidays!!; 9:35 AM, December 24, 2010

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