Christmas Music 24/7

The station is being a little bit flaky. I had a listener report to me that the station kept dropping on and off. I tried it myself, and it started out weird, and then was ok. The first 30 seconds was kind of jumbled. I opened a trouble ticket with Live365.

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Due to some hardware problems on the server that is running the Christmas Music 24/7 broadcast, themachine will be worked on briefly tonight (technically Friday morning). So at 2AM Eastern, 11PM Pacific, the station will go off the air for a few minutes. It should restart automagically when the repairs have been addressed. So if [...]

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I talked with Keith earlier this week about his Christmas album, Christmas Celebration!, as well as his touring schedule, and asked him the Twelve Questions of Christmas. You can visit his web site at: KeithAndrewGrim.com. You can purchase his songs from iTunes.
Listen to the podcast:

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Well, it finally happened, after flirting with 500 listeners all day on Tuesday, we just hit the 500 free listener limit just before noon Eastern. Become a VIP listener. VIP listeners don’t hear commercials! And VIP listeners are not subject to the limits that free listeners are. This also earns the station a few dollars, [...]

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Last night I conducted my first interview with a musician whose music I’m playing on the station. Keith Andrew Grim and I talked for about 10 minutes, it was quite interesting. I’ll post the podcast here and you will be able to subscribe at iTunes or other podcast directories.
Be thinking about who you’d like [...]

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Here’s an update on the station stats. Sometime on November 4th, we hit a total of 200,000 listener hours since the station launched in November 2004. We are now the #57 station at Live365. We are also getting more listeners earlier in the day. As a benchmark, we hit 200 listeners about ten minutes earlier [...]

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I’ve added the CD by Keith Andrew Grim Christmas Celebration!. It’s a collection of very nice guitar carols. You don’t often hear Christmas music played on the guitar. It’s a little different, but very relaxing. Visit Keith Andrew Grim’s web site.

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I’ve added Point of Grace’s new Christmas album Winter Wonderland to the station. It’s such a new album it’s not even on their web site yet.

Point of Grace official web site
Buy the Winter Wonderland CD at Amazon
Point Of Grace - Winter Wonderland in iTunes

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I’d like to welcome the many new listeners who are finding Christmas Music 24/7 in iTunes. And thank you to the people who have emailed me their thanks for the Christmas music playing on Christmas Music 24/7.
The number of listeners is increasing steadily. Halloween seemed to be the official start of the Christmas season. On [...]

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