Christmas Music 24/7

Live365 upgraded some of their systems last weekend, and it appears that a byproduct of this is the listing of Christmas 24/7 under the “Religious” category of the Radio section of iTunes will only play for around 15 minutes or so. Live365 is working on this problem. I know this issue is annoying, but simply [...]

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Sometime on November 7th, 2007, the Christmas Music 24/7 Traditional station had its 1,000,000th listener. Wow! The station was launched on November 18th, 2004. And even more interesting, sometime before New Year’s Eve 2007, I think the station will hit one million listener hours. Guess the date that happens, and win a prize. Simply send [...]

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Yesterday was the first time of the 2007 Christmas season that the Traditional Christmas music station filled all of its 500 listener slots. One of the huge differences between regular radio and Internet radio is that on Internet radio, a webcaster only gets a certain number of listener slots. Those listeners can listen to the [...]

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Christmas Music 24/7 has broken into the Top 100 stations at Live365. The station is listed as the 96th most popular station, of the over 7,000 stations at Live365.
In other news, I have a box of new music that I’ve been preparing for adding to the stations. I’ll finish ripping the CDs later today, and [...]

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I get a daily report of how many listeners and how they long they listen to each station. Thursday, October 11th, 2007, was the first date for the 2007 Christmas season that the Traditional Christmas radio station had over 1,000 hours of listeners. That was from 1,267 different listeners throughout the day.

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I have been sick the last ten days or so. I have received a giant stack of CDs, I’ve started going through them and adding the music to the appropriate station(s). So, be looking (and listening) for new music fairly shortly. Thanks for your patience.

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Here’s an update on the status of performance royalties and licensing of the music that I play on stations in the Christmas Music 24/7 network. Sound Exchange offered me (and a handful of other small commercial webcasters) a contract that would allow me to pay the old rates for the music that I play. The [...]

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I have started receiving new music for the 2007 Christmas season. I’ll be adding it to the stations shortly, and hopefully do some interviews for the Christmas Musician podcast. I’ll let you know as I add the songs to the stations.

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I am very happy to announce that the fourth station in the Christmas Music 24/7 network has been launched. This station is Christmas Music 24/7: CCM (which is Contemporary Christian Music). This station will be webcasting Christmas music in the CCM genre. Artists include Point of Grace, Acappella, Bryan Duncan, and many others. My collection [...]

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Guess what? We’ve got another new station on the Christmas Music 24/7 network airing now. Christmas Music 24/7: Kids started broadcasting this morning. This station will be webcasting Christmas music aimed at kids 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, year round. The music includes Veggie-tales, the Wiggles, Snoopy, and a collection of instrumental [...]

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