{"id":135191,"date":"2025-11-14T20:07:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T20:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/135191\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T20:07:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T20:07:15","slug":"wham-christmas-music-returns-to-rochester-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/135191\/","title":{"rendered":"Wham! Christmas music returns to Rochester radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rochester, N.Y. (WHAM) \u2014 This week&#8217;s early snowfall was short-lived, but the holiday season is here!<\/p>\n<p>A local holiday tradition returned Friday, as Warm 101.3 made its annual switch to Christmas music.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Holiday Gift of Music&#8221; kicked off at noon, with &#8220;Last Christmas&#8221; by Wham! chosen as the first song of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The marathon will continue 24\/7 through Christmas Day and likely beyond, as WARM 101.3 traditionally continues playing holiday favorites for a few days afterward.<\/p>\n<p>BACKGROUND: <a href=\"https:\/\/13wham.com\/news\/entertainment\/warm-1013-team-talks-holiday-music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WARM 101.3 talks top Christmas songs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/13wham.com\/news\/good-day-arc-rochester\/warm-1013-wraps-up-2024-christmas-music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WARM 101.3 wraps up 2024 Christmas music<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Canandaigua&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/radiosunny.iheart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sunny 102.3<\/a> is also playing Christmas music, making the switch last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rochester, N.Y. (WHAM) \u2014 This week&#8217;s early snowfall was short-lived, but the holiday season is here! A local&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-135191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}