I'm looking for a live broadcast via RealPlayer that plays Christmas
music year round.  Whatever I find is all single songs.  It would be
nice to have a live broadcast or 1.5 to  2 hour sequence of Christmas
songs.

Any ideas?

Hi Tailgunner,

Best solution I could find for you, which I think will fit your needs,
is at Live365.com. This link...

http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?genre=search&searchdesc=Christmas

will display a listing of 50 "stations" playing Christmas music. For
instance, try "ChristmasRadio.com" (should be the third selection on
the list), where the broadcaster notes that he tries "to mix things
up" so you so that you won't hear the same tune by the same artist for
several hours - even days!"

Live365.com promotes their own player, but by using their "Listening
Wizard" you can set your listening preferences for RealPlayer.  The
downside of Live365.com is the slew of annoying pop-up ads that come
with its free access. If you find that you like it enough to use it
regularly, you can purchse their "Preferred Membership @ $4.95 a
month.

So go grab yourself a glass of eggnog and enjoy!

regards,

rico

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Clarification of Answer by rico-ga on 22 Aug 2002 08:59 PDT

Whoops, I have a dreadful habit (that I'm trying to break :-)) of
forgetting to give my search strategy, which we like to do to help
customers improve their own searches.  For yours, I used the
keywords...

Christmas Music year round

... which, as you'll see if you try within the Google search engine
will bring up a link to Live365.com (as well as a variety of other
things)

regards,

rico

Good enough!  Exactly what I was looking for.

Here's a directory of Christmas music stations that might help you or
another researcher:
http://www.billsparks.org/Christmas_Music_Channels/