WLIT 93.9 My FM

This station would be so much better if it played a bigger variety of Christmas songs. There are billions of Christmas songs out there and they loop the same 20 over and over and over. It’s painful to listen to this station.

Love Christmas time songs… I always look forward even year and so do my kids and family… It’s great no other station does it. Keep it up

Ok I love Christmas and the lights and the music and everything… But I HATE 93.9’s annual switch to Christmas for a number of reasons. 1 They used to tell you when they were switching over and had a whole radio skit they put on and «Edison» flipped the switch. 2 THERE WAS MORE VARIETY IN WHAT THEY PLAYED. There are a TON of other Christmas songs out there that could be played but are shyed away from for «god only knows» reasons. I would like to hear *NSYNC’s Merry Christmas Happy Holidays a little more than once every 5 years it is In my opinion one of the best Christmas songs ever. They used to play funny songs Dominick The Donkey, Pretty Little Dolly, Walking In Women’s Lingerie, but alas no more. They have the same 5 songs (Rockin Around the Christmas Tree by Brenda Lee, Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer Various artists, The christmas song various artists, Frosty the snowman various artists and No place Like Home Perry Como) on power rotation you will hear these songs every hour sometimes every half hour. THERE ARE OTHER SONGS OUT THERE: Britney My Only Wish, TLC Sleighride, Jonas Brothers Girl Of My Dreams, The song where Santa was looking down on a soldier who had nothing, and a bevy of others. I mean come on there is no Reasonable reason that these other songs cannot be played. In fact I challenge someone from 93.9 My Fm to read this and get back to me formally letting me know why they cannot play these other songs. BRING BACK MELISSA FOREMAN SHE WAS THE BEST BESIDES ROBIN ROCK WHO ACTUALLY PLAYED GOOD SONGS. The other thing I love is whenever you try and call the director of programming (As of December 2013 Tommy Austin or Austen) he can’t (WON’T) get back to you. They can keep the Christmas music just go back to what it once was. Forget all this Politically Correct «PC» Garbage and get back to your roots. Until I hear there are changes made to this station (for the better) I will not be listening. I will be listening to my own personal Cd’s and YOUR ADVERTISERS WILL BE MISSING MY BUSINESS BECAUSE THEIR MESSAGE ISN’T GETTING THROUGH TO ME AND MY FAMILY! 93.9 please listen your listeners are getting tired of it and fed up with all of the same stuff. Hopefully next year you will have all the songs being played again next year.

Through out most of the year, The station is rather tepid. But during the Christmas holiday season. THAT would ABSOLUTELY save the station. If they EVER thought of getting rid of the Christmas format for good. The station would be nothing more than a Communist bloc.

Everyone (rightfully) criticizes this radio station for their insipid and horrible Christmas music selection and their decision to blare it endlessly from Thanksgiving until Christmas, so I won’t beat a dead horse.
But I feel that a lot of these reviews are clearly missing another critical point: WLIT is also a terrible radio station during the rest of the year.
They make the mistake of repeating the same 10 – 15 songs over and over all day long and rarely change the song lineup. Having been forced for many years to listen to this music at work I’ve had plenty of unpleasant hours to study this phenomenon.
First, the vast majority of the songs being played are terrible songs from washed-​up bands from the ’80’s and ’90’s. Most of these songs are forgotten because the music was bad and the bands weren’t worth listening to in the first place. But rather than forget these songs and move on to better things, this station plays these songs endlessly as though they’re the greatest thing since the Beatles or Rolling Stones. WLIT is likely their only source of royalty income these days. «Total Eclipse of the Heart»? No… please no.
Second, WLIT does play a few songs here and there that are worthwhile (from bands like The Police, Peter Gabriel, U2, the Beatles) but they always selectively chose songs from these artist’s catalogs and never play anything else by the artist. You’ll frequently hear «I’ll Be Watching You» from The Police and «I Still Don’t Know What I’m Looking For» from U2, but that’s about it. Why not «Synchronicity I and II», or «King of Pain» or «Tea in the Sahara» from The Police’s landmark album? Why not «Where the Streets Have No Name» or «Bullet The Blue Sky» from U2’s «The Joshua Tree»? Why can’t WLIT learn to dig for the deep tracks that are just as deserving as the singles?
This is why I, when I can, play WDRV (The Drive, at 97.1 on the dial) instead of WLIT. With WDRV they frequently change the lineup and constantly dig deep for tracks that most of us may have forgotten. They sometimes play entire album sides so you can hear albums as they were meant to be heard.
Needless to say, don’t listen to this station. Or better yet… if you’re an employer or business owner, don’t subject your employees or customers to this music. They’ll thank you!

WLIT (The Lite-93.9 FM) is one of the worst radio stations in Chicago. Most of the songs they play are so dull and annoying. I don’t like this station at all and it’s even worse during the Christmas season. The Lite plays the same Christmas songs over and over again from early November-​December 25 each year. Listening to this station around that time of year is absolute torture.

Nice music and I love the evening show. When it is Xmas time they are the only one station that they play the holiday songs.

Another fantastic year of Christmas music for over a month. I know, I know, you think I’m crazy. That’s fine. I just really, really love Christmas music.
So, thanks, WLIT FM, for consistently providing me the Christmas music that I need to hear for 45 days straight each year. I’ll always tune in.

I know they are now playing the Christmas music again, ALREADY. Thankfully, I have yet to be subject to any person, place or thing playing this radio station.
That is what I am thankful for this year.

Eight more days… eight more effing days… until I won’t have to hear the same 30 songs played continuously. Look — I LIKE Christmas music but branch out, would ya? Do you need a nudge? I am going to your website RIGHT NOW and giving you this Unilocal link.

I love Christmas music and I’m in love with the Holiday Lite, I wait for it all Christmas. This year they started their Xmas music in the middle of November so its only a month and a half of music. I love that they play Bing Crosby and Tony Bennett. I’m not really that into the newer versions of the old songs.

Thank you so much for being the default ‘blah’ radio station of choice that too many Chicago businesses force people to listen to during the rest of the year beyond the holiday season, and also turning me into a timid dude that shakes in fear whenever I hear Christmas music. You don’t even have the darn decency either to WAIT until after Thanksgiving to start playing Christmas music, then I would halfway respect your fregging station.
Love 100.3 FTW, when it comes to ‘lite’ stations! (nevermind I all but never listen to either that or WLIT at all) And not to mention, thankfully does NONE of that nonstop Christmas music crap.

Reading the reviews of «the Lite», mostly based solely on their Christmas Seasonal programming, is a social study of Unilocalers themselves. Some succumb to the mind-​numbing «comfort and joy» that old Christmas faves bring, some just accept that «everyone and their mother» listens to the Lite during the Season, and some torture themselves, unable to even stand the thought that this station exists!
I love to get in the Christmas mood with some old faves, just not too early. My son and I decorated my tree the weekend prior to Thanksgiving and neither of us was feelin’ the Lite yet. Seriously, wouldn’t waiting until Thanksgiving make the 24-​hour Christmas programming that much more special? Still, when I tire of the station, I turn the dial or put on my XM «Holly» channel or fire up Charlie Brown Christmas. I’m not expecting to hear «Christmas in Hollis» by Run DMC on the Lite or anywhere! That’s why I own it.
When I was in college the college radio station ran a unique mix of Punk, Reggae («Hallelu-​Jah»), Avant Jazz, and rocking Hannukah music. I spent hours recording it and wish I still had it. I don’t expect to hear any of that music anywhere but Left of the Dial, much less the Lite. I do expect to hear «The Christmas Song» 100 times a day, «White Christmas» (my fave) and that annoying Mannheim Steamroller stuff that my son actually likes.
And getting back to Social Psych101, let’s have some fun with the Ratings of the Unilocalers themselves, hmm?
5– Star givers: Santas!
4– Stars: Rudolph!
3– Stars: The cranky dad from A Christmas Story!
2– Stars: Old Man Potter!
1– Star: Scrooge!
Merry Christmas! Happy Hannukah! Feliz Navidad! Happy Holidays!

It’s fitting that this station’s call letters contain the word «lit». When it’s not Christmas season and 93.9 is on, I have to be plastered to not tell someone to turn «that f-​in» elevator music off. That, or trapped in a dentist’s chair. So during Christmastime, it actually gains a second star.
Sure they start playing holiday music a bit soon, but now with snow falling in December, it’s fitting. No, my problem isn’t when they play Christmas music, it’s what holiday music they play. A couple of co-​workers of mine listen to it non-​stop right from the time the format starts each year and I tried to do this the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. WLIT is almost insufferable. They play the same six Christmas songs over and over it seems. By different artists, sure, but after hearing the fifth version of «White Christmas» in two hours (only barely hyperbole), I turned it off.
Maybe I’ve been spoiled by the wider open format of the Christmas stations on Sirius but hearing the same artists «the lite» plays during the regular year doing Christmas favorites is painful. Maybe it’s comforting to some to hear these old standbys over and over but it does no one a service. Christmas music haters are made by stations like this!
I worked at a Borders after college and I know first hand that most years there are dozens of new Christmas CDs (including some by artists you wouldn’t in a million years think would do a holiday record). And I think WLIT just threw every one of them in the last 10 years not by Michael Buble or Celine Dion in the garbage upon receipt.
Why does it always have to be the lite rock station in every gosh darn city that does the Christmas format? The second a Christmas station plays «Fairytale of New York» by The Pogues or «(It Sure Don’t Feel Like) Christmastime» by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones or even Ben Folds Five’s «Brick» (aka «the Christmas abortion song»), I’ll listen to that station the rest of the year. That’s a promise!
Without even the assistance of novocaine!

My name is Carolynne R. And I am a Christmas music friggin fanatic. And no, I am not ashamed. I won’t apologize for it either. If I could listen to Christmas music 365 days a year, I would. It makes me very happy. I have even caught myself humming «Jingle Bells» — in July.
I almost broke down and wept last year when I was scrolling through radio stations and found that WLIT had started playing Christmas music on November 1. This year, they apparently are starting later, which bums me out but thats OK. I have something like 20 CD’s if i need a fix.

WLIT losses one star for their «Holiday Lite» music come early November (even when I did celebrate Christmas with the ex’s family the flooding of holiday music really got to me — a little is nice, ²⁴⁄₇ is a different story), but the remaining stars were earned by bringing back Melissa Foreman.
Honestly, the morning is the only time I listen to WLIT and booting Foreman for Whoopi Goldberg’s syndicated radio show was not a good choice at all! I actually stopped listening to the station when it happened and it has been only recently that I started listening again because I became aware that Foreman was back — a very good choice if I do say so myself.
All in all, I highly recommend listening to WLIT in the morning, but would like to suggest that the station rethink the whole «Holiday Lite» programming later in the year.

Jesus Christ man, at least wait until Thanksgiving to start playing Christmas music.
The rest of the year this station is pretty weak in any case. My parents don’t even listen to it anymore. Wake up WLIT, it’s 2000 and effing 7.

SO NOT HAPPY WITH THIS STATION! I woke up to CHRISTMAS MUSIC this morning! I literally THREW the clock across the room (anger management anyone?)
Now, I have to find some talk radio to put on my alarm clock because I am so NOT having Christmas shoved down my throat before Thanks Giving!
I’m also writing a letter to this STUPID radio station and telling them just what I think of their ‘programming’.
ugh!
Ok, Back to my «happy place»…“OMMMM, OMMMMMM, OMMMMM”

I am in total agreement with Mike O. Can we at least have a one holiday pass before having the next shoved down our throats?? WLIT will play nothing but Christmas music until after Dec 25^th. If you listen to the Christmas music now, you will be sick of it next week and that, for me ruins the spirit of Christmas.
Same thing goes for all the stores that have been slooooowwwwly inching the Christmas décor into the stores since August. Now, they completely bypass Thanksgiving (which for me, is my all time favorite holiday!!) and do a full on Christmas assault. Boo!!! Hisssss!!!

I walked into a Polish deli on the afternoon of November 2^nd and what do I hear playing in the background? «Rudolph the Red-​Nosed Reindeer» on «The Holiday Lite.» What’s wrong with you people?
I just put away my Halloween decorations yesterday. At least let me enjoy my turkey and sweet potatoes before I hear Perry Como, that Charlie Brown piano song, or Natalie Cole singing about roasting chestnuts on an open fire. Burl Ives would be rolling in his grave if he knew they’d be desecrating his classic Rudolph song by playing it at such a premature time.
I felt sorry for the cashiers who have to put up with 8 hours of Christmas songs played ad nauseam.
If there is a Grinch, I hope he declares Jihad on this radio station and rams his explosive-​laden sled into the transmitter tower.