{"id":260699,"date":"2025-11-03T23:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T23:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/260699\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T23:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T23:19:11","slug":"nonstop-christmas-music-returns-to-93-9-lite-fm-tuesday-later-than-in-recent-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/260699\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonstop Christmas Music Returns To 93.9 LITE FM Tuesday, Later Than In Recent Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO \u2014 For the past few years, Chicago radio station WLIT (93.9 LITE FM) has made its annual switch to its <a href=\"https:\/\/blockclubchicago.org\/2024\/10\/30\/nonstop-christmas-music-is-back-on-93-9-lite-fm-starting-friday\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">all-holiday-music format on Nov. 1<\/a>, while most listeners were still enjoying their Halloween candy.<\/p>\n<p>But Christmas fans who turned on the station Saturday, which was Nov. 1, expecting to hear \u201cJingle Bell Rock\u201d and other holiday classics were disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>This year, in honor of the station\u2019s 24th anniversary of its two months of Christmas music, WLIT held a contest so that listeners could predict when the music would take hold.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1016\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-03-at-1.22.53-PM-1024x1016.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-944753\" style=\"width:541px;height:auto\"  \/>Credit: Instagram<\/p>\n<p>Monday morning, WLIT host Melissa Forman made the announcement: The station will switch over to its all-holiday format 3 p.m. Tuesday, tied to a chance for listeners to win a trip to Las Vegas to see Mariah Carey. As soon as you hear her prevalent \u201cAll I Want For Christmas Is You\u201d song after the format change, you can call in for your chance to win the Vegas trip.<\/p>\n<p>Now the question remains: What will be the first song to kick off WLIT\u2019s holiday season this year? That incessant Mariah Carey song? Michael Bubl\u00e9\u2019s \u201cHolly Jolly Christmas\u201d? The classic \u201cIt\u2019s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year\u201d by Andy Williams? Those are a few of the  <a href=\"https:\/\/blockclubchicago.org\/2022\/12\/28\/these-are-93-9-lite-fms-most-played-christmas-songs-this-year-computer-program-says\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">favorites WLIT plays (much) more than others<\/a> during the holiday season. <\/p>\n<p>Holiday music fans will just have to tune in to WLIT at 3 p.m. Tuesday to find out. Fans can listen on the radio,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/live\/939-lite-fm-853\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener external nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">online<\/a>\u00a0or on the iHeartRadio app.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the Block Club Chicago podcast:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO \u2014 For the past few years, Chicago radio station WLIT (93.9 LITE FM) has made its annual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[449,64,63,134,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-260699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}