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December and then playing an all-Christmas playlist on December 24 and 25. In 2000 some stations began playing an exclusively Christmas format for the entire month of December, a practice that became more widespread in 2001. In subsequent years, such stations have
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Seasonal creep is not limited to the northern hemisphere winter holiday season and other popular holidays and observances, but is also becoming more common for merchandise associated with a general season of the year. Advertising for winter-, spring-, summer-, and fall-related goods generally now
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Christmas sales has begun in early Autumn since the late 1800s in the United States. An emporium in Kansas City, Missouri named Bullene, Moore, Emery & Company sparked a preholiday rush that "packed every square foot of the store" on November 16, 1888. Promotion for an "Early
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usually begins its "Countdown to
Christmas" programming event (a continuous marathon of original Christmas movies) on November 1. In 2010, ABC Family began to air some holiday-related programming in mid-November under the banner "Countdown to 25 Days of Christmas"; as a prelude to its main
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November 10 as the standard launch date for most of its approximately 90 Christmas format flips in 2023). Earlier flips to Christmas music were noted in 2020 (the first station that year flipped in late September), as broadcasters sought to alleviate some of the stress brought by the
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562:"We see these decorations a month and a half before the holiday arrives and when it does come, we're so sick and tired of the lights and trimmings, we pay no attention to them, and the whole atmosphere is dull at the time it should be cheerful," stated H. Earle Garzee in a letter to the
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October 28—and that station, the lone station to flip before November 1, had largely gone unnoticed until October 30; the trade Web site
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begin playing
Christmas music continually from the end of Halloween up until the first week of January (in light of the consequences of the Internet age, the network maintains an exclusive Christmas music channel through some providers and their
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Christmas season should be refrained until after the solemn commemorations of
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Thanksgiving forward a week in order to help boost retail sales by prolonging the Christmas shopping season. This was followed by the sending of millions of American fighting men overseas in 1942 to engage in
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holidays do not provide enough merchandise or sales to fill retail space between the end of the summer season and the
Christmas season. In 2002–2003, Christmas creep accelerated markedly with retailers such as
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Wharton marketing scholars and other analysts say an extended
Christmas season is something of a mixed bag. It may hold advantages, disadvantages — or even no advantages — for store owners.
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Christmas Event" in 1893 by a retailer in Salt Lake City, Utah retailer read: "This is no joke. We mean it. We will do it … MONDAY, MONDAY, MONDAY." In 1918 the
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1065:Abbott, Jim (November 24, 2000).
997:"When Christmas Started Creeping"
899:Quinn, Mark (November 10, 2016).
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