Each Christmas season, New York radio station 106.7, "Lite FM" probably sets the annual record for most daily plays of "Jingle Bell Rock." The station goes wall-to-wall Chirstmas music during the season, sacrificing its usual mellow oldies and soft-rock format. That's their right. They've obviously decided it's profitable.
Now that we're in post-Christmas mode, the station is running a TV promo in which a Christmas tree crashes through a closed window and lands on the sidewalk below. "We're back" to the usual format, they boast.
In other words, stoke the holiday sentiment in its time, then play to the bah-humbug and fed-up crowd when it won't make you any more cash. It only goes to show how the true religious signifigance of the holiday has been siphoned off by pure, secular capitalist greed.
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