Radio Somebody added the following comment to the article which somebody else recently deleted Could someone comment on the situation where most radio stations stop playing Christmas music when Christmas day is past There was a 1 day extension of playing Christmas music in 2004 when Christmas day was a Saturday It is still Christmas time the day after Christmas day with Epiphany being 12 days after Christmas day I pasted it here for discussion if anybody is interested I added a couple of section heads above too My thoughts regarding the question are that the pre Christmas hoopla has been so extended starting before Halloween now that people who are not thinking about the liturgical calendar are glad that it s over