The Christmas season begins this weekend, and the Christmas-music season along with it. Actually, as we have observed over the past few weeks, holiday music started in early November, on both the broadcast and pureplay sides of the fence. But in our view, three and a half weeks of Christmas music saturation is sufficient.
Saturation is the watchword of today’s POTD. BRS Media, George Bundy’s enterprise, posts an annual roundup of Internet-delivered Christmas music streams, emanating from radio stations as well as Internet-only stations. (The pureplays are separated into their own list.) With nearly 300 streaming options it is lean-back heaven for anyone who doesn’t want to curate a personal playlist — although this many choices actually requires some degree of leaning in, just to find the perfect mix. Especially since, well, a few of them didn’t work in our testing. But in the spirit of holiday joviality, we’re ignoring glitches.
The pureplay list has an international scope, which adds fun variety. We are settling into KerstRadio from Rotterdam, which seems, at this minute, to be playing a Dutch version of “Winter Wonderland.” Moge de vreugde van het seizoen met u zijn.