iHeartMedia Celebrates Annual Holiday Music Flips

RADIO ONLINE | Friday, November 11, 2022

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Every holiday season, iHeartMedia converts music radio stations in its key markets to all Christmas music through Christmas Day. These stations continue to have large audiences in each market -- often doubling the audience size from non-holiday programming. This season, iHeartMedia's annual station flip to Christmas music kicks off today, November 11 at 5pm local time, with more than 80 stations across the country broadcasting the season's festive music from today's biggest artists as well as holiday classics from Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and more around-the-clock.

iHeartMedia has also announced today the return of their iHeartRadio Holiday Special, a broadcast event hosted by Mario Lopez. This two-hour special event will feature interviews with Alicia Keys, Backstreet Boys, Dan + Shay, John Legend and Meghan Trainor discussing their favorite holiday songs and traditions. The special will broadcast across iHeartMedia's AC and Classic Hits stations nationwide on November 23 at 7pm.

"You always know it's the holiday season when iHeartRadio stations across America start playing Christmas music," said iHeartMedia Chief Programming Officer Tom Poleman. "To get everyone in the mood we're bringing back the iHeartRadio Holiday Special with Alicia Keys, Backstreet Boys, Dan + Shay, John Legend and Meghan Trainor, who will be sharing holiday memories with our host Mario Lopez to help us all get in the spirit."