"Are there no prisons? Are the workhouses still in operation?" --
(E. Scrooge.)
Some stations flipped to Xmas on November 1. It's always been overkill. I've never understood how anyone could listen to the SAME 20 songs played 12 times a day for 2 months. Most Xmas music is vapid stuff. Those songs about snow seem absurd when it's still 75 degrees outside...