LITE FM Flip to Christmas 2025

Listen as 93.9 LITE FM flips to Christmas on 11/4/25!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Wow, we are finally here ninety three point nine Light FM.
We're about to become Chicago's Christmas music station. It's Mick
Lee joined by our entire light FM family. Hey wa,
oh my goodness, Melissa Foreman, Producer, Jim Robin Rock.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Hi everybody, this is amazing. We're all in one room together.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
So cool. Oh Jim the reindeer took it. Yes, you
got your.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
And we are also happy to be joined by Major Calebson,
Chicago Area Commander of the Salvation Army.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Are holidays, Happy holidays, who, by the way, has the
perfect hat.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
Wait to watch the video that again.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Beautiful perfect and our friend from comed Kerschwer Energy Energy doctor.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Thank you so much for having me.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Happy holidays. Thank you both for being here to celebrate
with us. And just quickly the red kettles. Will we
back out when Friday.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
Morning all over Chicago land hearing those bells, you'll as
soon be hearing them in your sleep, So and tell
it feels good.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Thank you again to the Salvation Army for everything that
you do to help out those in need, not just
during the holiday season but year round.

Speaker 4 (01:07):
So thank you again. We applauds.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
So, Melissa Foreman Robin Rock producer Jim. This is our
twenty fifth year as Chicago's Christmas music station.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
I how did that happen? So Chris, It's so possible.

Speaker 5 (01:19):
And I remember the first year when we thought this
is either going to really really well really really poorly,
and I think we were all blown away by how
people love it and they look forward to.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
It every year.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
That's the thing we were talking about, is the nostalgia
of doing this. There are so many of you right
now we want to say hello to. We recognize that
for all of these years you have listened. You are
sitting in your car right now. We were talking about
how there's this woman Marcy, She's sitting in her car
picking up her kids and they're listening right now. Free
is sitting with her family. They're in matching pajamas right now,

(01:50):
eating pizza, waiting for this to happen. You can listen
to Christmas music on your own somewhere else, but when
you listen together, and this is a community where Chicago land,
and we've been through so much together, it makes a
huge difference. And twenty five years of ups and downs
and babies and marriages and divorces and the things that
have happened in our city. To do this together is

(02:11):
a really special, awesome thing, right, It's a gift.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
We're so happy to be here celebrating this annual tradition
with you, with everybody, and so thank you for bringing
us into your homes and your family for this celebration
every year.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
And we have a surprise for you this year. If
you didn't hear about Mariah Carey, what's going on? Man?

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Mariah carest thing ever, Mariah Carey's Christmas Time Show is
in Las Vegas coming up in a few weeks, and
we're giving away a trip for two when the first
Mariah Carey song plays, the first Christmas song plays any
minute now.

Speaker 4 (02:41):
It could be now, it could be in five hours
from now. I don't know.

Speaker 5 (02:45):
Well something bananas by the way, just so you know,
for the past several hours, people want to know, Hey, when.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
Is Mariah Carey coming up? I don't know. So is it?

Speaker 3 (02:52):
Caller twenty?

Speaker 4 (02:53):
So caller twenty.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
When you hear the first Mariah song play this afternoon,
that's when you're going to call in to win this trip.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
We sent him out. Is vag Jim just went to Vegas?
I did, and you you loved it.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
Oh my god, it's better than ever.

Speaker 4 (03:05):
Okay, now, that's great.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
So keep keep that on because we're going to be
playing that song any moment now. We're also because it's
our twenty fifth year at Chicago's Christmas Music Station, We've
got a few surprises along the way and some songs
that are coming up that may surprise you, might might
bring back some memories. And also we're bringing back a

(03:27):
special introduction into the holiday season.

Speaker 4 (03:32):
Everybody.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Okay, I'm really excited about this. This was an open
that we've used for many years. It made me happy
and joyful, and so many of you have asked for
it back, and Mick Lee and James Howard have said yes.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
So is that how we're going to open the show.
We're going to open Christmas.

Speaker 4 (03:46):
Yes, year.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
This is a little piece of nostalgia, all right, to
each and every one of you, We love you. A happy,
beautiful holiday season. May you and your families just find
joy and peace. And I hope this brings us all together.
We ready, you, guys, let's we're.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
Going to push this button.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
We've got the red button here. Edison the Reindeer, our mascot,
is in the studio. When he and the rest of
us all push this button, we're going to go into
our launch, our Christmas lunch. So here we got twenty
five years at Chicago's Christmas Station.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
Are you ready make? Are you ready to hit it?

Speaker 4 (04:13):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (04:14):
Right, let's push Take your pleasures.

Speaker 4 (04:22):
Everyone but the rush Santa. It's not even Thanksgiving it
We've been practicing this all year. Dear, it's time to
make the big switch. Oh yes, how could I forget?

Speaker 1 (04:34):
All? Right?

Speaker 4 (04:35):
Here it goes five four three two one ron switch
Santa found it.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
Here we go.

Speaker 4 (04:52):
Just match you.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
I love this time of you actually feel warm, fuzzy
and so gets the Christmas spirit.

Speaker 5 (05:00):
Just like the Mason.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yeah, I'd love todays like blood. Here here we're going.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
For Chicago's Christmas Music station, thirty three point nine Light FM.

Speaker 4 (05:23):
Did anybody think that that's the song?

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Now?

Speaker 3 (05:25):
No?

Speaker 4 (05:26):
I like it.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
That was not on anyone's Bingo card.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
Yeah, you know, this is our twenty fifth year Chicago's
Christmas Music Station. When you think of Christmas movies in Chicago,
Christmas Vacation is one of the top movies as far
as I'm.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
Yesterday, use that it was so much fun, fun.

Speaker 4 (05:43):
We were all dancing and singing here in the studio, yep.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
And then don't forget you.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
You will be called and contacted if you guessed the
right time, because a lot of people are wondering about
that the right time for the one thousand dollars that
will still be up for grabs.

Speaker 4 (05:55):
Ye, so well, we'll be contexted. Seven was when the
song started.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
So if you guess three oh seven, and if anybody
else gets three oh seven, you'll all be in a
tiebreaker and we're gonna randomly pick one person. But three
oh seven was when the first Christmas song played here
on ninety three.

Speaker 5 (06:06):
Point nine And that's one thousand dollars thanks to the
Salvation Army North and Central Illinois Division.

Speaker 4 (06:11):
How cool is that?

Speaker 1 (06:12):
Yeah, thank you again to the Salvation Army, and thank
you to comment for being here with us as well
as we get back into the music.

Speaker 4 (06:19):
Oh, by the way, Mariah Carey has not played yet.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
All right, So when the Mariah Carey song plays, Jim,
when is it gonna come to you know, I'm gonna
say four more songs, four more songs. When the Mariah
Carey sound plays, that's when you're gonna call in, caller,
twenty will win a trip to Vegas for two to
see Mariah Carey's Christmas show there so so awesome, but
not until the Mariah Carey song plays.

Speaker 4 (06:39):
So let's get back into the music.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
My favorite song, Andy Williams, It is the most wonderful
time of the year.

Speaker 3 (06:44):
A ninety three point nine light up