{"id":5654,"date":"2014-11-13T05:00:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=5654"},"modified":"2014-11-13T10:28:39","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T16:28:39","slug":"chicagos-100-3-serving-perfect-christmas-blend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/11\/13\/chicagos-100-3-serving-perfect-christmas-blend\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago\u2019s 100.3 serving \u2018Perfect Christmas Blend\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Christmas<\/a><\/a>Let the Christmas radio battle begin.<\/p>\n

In what\u2019s billed as a first for local radio, WILV FM 100.3 <\/a>is offering listeners a 50\/50 split of Christmas music and mainstream hits for the next six weeks.<\/p>\n

Starting at 6 a.m. Thursday and airing continuously through Christmas Day, the Hubbard Radio station will alternate holiday classics with songs from its regular adult-contemporary playlist. They\u2019re calling it \u201cThe Perfect Christmas Blend.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201dFor more than a year now Hubbard Radio Chicago has been committed to re-inventing the standard AC [adult contemporary] format,\u201d Marty Bender, program director of Chicago's 100.3, said in a statement. \u201cIn that spirit, we are presenting a new way to hear the holiday. This is yet another unique \u2018touch\u2019 for our growing and lucratively targeted adult audience. This isn\u2019t a radio strategy as much as it\u2019s simply giving our listeners a balance of the two types of music they want to hear.\u201d<\/p>\n

The preemptive move steals the spotlight from iHeartMedia\u2019s WLIT FM 93.9,<\/a> which typically launches its nonstop Christmas music in mid-November. Officials of 93.9 My FM, which calls itself \u201cChicago\u2019s Christmas Station,\u201d would not disclose when they planned to switch,<\/a> but it\u2019s likely that Hubbard Radio\u2019s maneuver will force their hand by Thursday.<\/p>\n

Here is the playlist for the first hour of \u201cPerfect Christmas Blend,\u201d starting at 6 a.m.:<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cLet's Get It Started\u201d<\/strong> Black Eyed Peas<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Christmas Song\u201d<\/strong> Nat King Cole<\/p>\n

\u201cHappy\u201d<\/strong> Pharrell Williams<\/p>\n

\u201cAll I Want for Christmas\u201d<\/strong> Mariah Carey<\/p>\n

\u201cTry\u201d<\/strong> Pink<\/p>\n

\u201cDo You Know What I Hear\u201d<\/strong> Johnny Mathis<\/p>\n

\u201cViva La Vida\u201d<\/strong> Coldplay<\/p>\n

\u201cWonderful Christmas\u201d<\/strong> Paul McCartney<\/p>\n

\u201cAll About That Bass\u201d<\/strong> Meghan Trainor<\/p>\n

\u201cRockin\u2019 Around the Christmas Tree\u201d<\/strong> Brenda Lee<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of Me\u201d<\/strong> John Legend<\/p>\n

\u201cWhite Christmas\u201d<\/strong> Bing Crosby<\/p>\n

\u201cTake It On The Run\u201d<\/strong> REO Speedwagon<\/p>\n

\u201cChristmas Eve Sarajevo\u201d<\/strong> Trans-Siberian Orchestra<\/p>\n

\u201cHot N Cold\u201d<\/strong> Katy Perry<\/p>\n

\u201cBaby It\u2019s Cold Outside\u201d<\/strong> Dean Martin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let the Christmas radio battle begin. In what\u2019s billed as a first for local radio, WILV FM 100.3 is offering listeners a 50\/50 split of Christmas music and mainstream hits for the next six weeks. Starting at 6 a.m. Thursday and airing continuously through Christmas Day, the Hubbard Radio station will alternate holiday classics with... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5654"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5662,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5654\/revisions\/5662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}