Noel Radio

Noel Radio is a radio station exclusively featured in the West Coast Wintertime DLC of Sonic Adventure 4: SoCal Nation. The station plays Christmas music in time with the season and is one of the most chronologically diverse radio stations in the Sonic the Hedgehog series, as its playlist contains songs from as far back as the 1940s and as recent as 2011.
== Description ==
Shortly before the events of the West Coast Wintertime DLC, Planet Pop Radio releases previous host Jesse Lozano and hires real life Los Angeles personality Ellen K, who is the morning host for the real life 103.5 FM in the city, in his place.
In addition to a new host, the station's format and name completely changes to a Christmas theme, playing various hits from throughout the past seven decades. In response to the format change, a new radio station in nearby Hueherk is created in Standard FM for southern California's pop hits.
== Playlist ==
* Andy Williams - It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year (1963)
* Bing Crosby - It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas (1951)
* Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock (1957)
* Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree (1958)
* The Brian Setzer Orchestra - Jingle Bells (2002)
* Burl Ives - A Holly Jolly Christmas (1964)
* Dean Martin - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! (1959)
* The Drifters - White Christmas (1954)
* Eartha Kitt - Santa Baby (1953)
* Ella Fitzgerald - Winter Wonderland (1960)
* Elvis Presley - Blue Christmas (1957)
* Gene Autry - Here Comes Santa Claus (1947)
* José Feliciano - Feliz Navidad (1970)
* Judy Garland - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (1944)
* Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas Is You (1994)
* Michael Bublé - Santa Claus Is Coming to Town (2011)
* Ray Conniff - Ring Christmas Bells (1988)
* The Ronettes - Sleigh Ride (1963)
* Tony Bennett - Winter Wonderland (1968)
* Wham! - Last Christmas (1984)
== Trivia ==
* This station broadcasts throughout the West Coast Plaza Mall and all of the stores in the hubworld during the DLC.
* The station changing format from a pop hits station to a Christmas station is a reference to the real life KOST 103.5 FM, which changes its format from adult contemporary to Christmas music every year from November until late December.
* Sometimes when Gene Autry's "Here Comes Santa Claus" plays, Ellen K may make a comment about the song being created right on Sallywood Boulevard nearly seventy years ago. In real life, Gene Autry wrote the song in late 1946 after participating in that year's Hollywood Christmas Parade (then called the Santa Claus Lane Parade) and witnessed spectators chanting "Here comes Santa Claus", and he released the song a year later in time for that year's holiday season.
== See also ==
* Blue-Pop Tunes, a pop hits radio station in Sonic Adventure 3: Sleepless Minute which plays another song by Mariah Carey.
* The Sense, an R&B radio station in Sonic Adventure 5: Windy City Showdown which plays another song by Mariah Carey.
* Oldie Chicago Radio, an oldies radio station in Sonic Adventure 5: Windy City Showdown which plays another song by Elvis Presley.
* Jazz Midwest Central, a jazz radio station in Sonic Adventure 5: Windy City Showdown which plays another song by Dean Martin.
* Y-Radio, a post-2000 pop hits radio station in Shadow the Hedgehog 3: U.K. Calling which plays another song by Michael Bublé.