Welcome to the Thanksgiving Season (November 1, 2009)Um, radio stations? Hello? What day is it? November 1st. Correct? Yes.So, now that the Halloween season is over, it's time to air commercials with a Christmas theme, right? WRONG! This year, the Thanksgiving season is 25 days between Halloween and Thanksgiving Day, which is November 26th this year. Since it's the Thanksgiving season, we refrain from decorating anything with a Christmas or other holiday theme except for Thanksgiving decorations. Put up some pilgrims, turkeys, indians, harvested fruit baskets, and other Thanksgiving symbols on display. Leave the Christmas stuff out of it until the day after Thanksgiving season ends, which is November 27th in 2009. Radio and TV stations shall not engage in the participation of accepting advertisements with a holiday theme other than Thanksgiving. We're not doing Christmas yet! In this Thanksgiving season, we observe the Days of the Dead for the first two days in Mexico, but you can observe it in the U.S.A. November 11 is Veterans Day where we give thanks to the heroes in the military who help keep our country free. Then, of course, there's Thanksgiving Day, which is the cornerstone of the Thanksgiving season. Record stores.... oops. There's no such thing as a record store anymore. Tower and Wherehouse used to stock Christmas cassettes and CDs around this time when these stores once existed in the past. Nowadays, you can buy them anytime of the year on the Internet, putting the record stores at a severe disadvantage. For instance, for the Christmas in July holiday, people wanted to buy some Bob Rivers comedy CDs in late June in time for the holiday, while the record stores waited until November to display them in the racks. You can sell anything you want, but no Christmas displays until the day after Thanksgiving. You can plan your Christmas and Hanukkah shopping lists in November, then get ready for the real and official first day of the Christmas season on November 28th. It's not the Christmas Season until David Tanny says so, and right now, he says that it's the Thanksgiving Season! Also, November 1st marks the first day of the Winter Semester, and it ends on April 30th. The Summer Semester ended on Halloween, which felt weird because it's we now celebrate Halloween while in Daylight Saving Time. The sun was still up at 5pm, and there's no sun in the 6am and 6pm hours. We're in the middle of the Fall Semester, which is the first day of the fourth month of the semester. The Spring Semester returns on February 1, 2010. It's not the Christmas season yet, some radio and TV stations will be flagged airing Christmas themed commercials, which I will zap off. Now that I got twitter, I can twit about all those greedy commercial twits who have no clue which season they're in. I'm tuning out all of the ads if they're Christmas-themed until after Thanksgiving. Advertisers, please refrain from skipping over seasons. Stick within the season! It's Thanksgiving season. Stick with the pilgrims and Turkey in the Straw tune. No Christmas Season ads until November 27th. And...no Christmas themed movies either until November 27th. Leftover Halloween stuff is okay. No more Halloween stuff until October 1st (not on Labor Day!)
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