Thanksgiving is two weeks away. Hanukkah is four weeks away. Christmas is six weeks away.
The holiday season is upon us, which may be why today local radio station 97.1 WASH-FM is making its annual switch to all Christmas music, starting at 5 p.m.
That’s three days sooner than the station’s switch two years ago, which perhaps could be cited as an example of Christmas creep. Yesterday the anchors of the Fox 5 morning show debated the merits of Christmas music in mid-November.
Debate topic: Christmas music 🎄 🎶 @washfm switching to all #Christmas music tomorrow at 5pm. Too early or (sing along) we need a little Christmas, right this very minute?! #weighin @fox5dc #gooddaydc @OhMyGOFF @stevechenevey pic.twitter.com/srn8Ju9T18
— Holly Morris (@HollyMorrisTV) November 12, 2020
We posed a similar poll question in 2018, but perhaps the intervening two years — and the pandemic — has resulted in a shift in attitudes, so today we’re asking: is today too early to start listening to Christmas music?
Flickr pool photo by Erinn Shirley
