{"id":35165,"date":"2018-12-11T21:30:27","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T01:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=35165"},"modified":"2018-12-11T21:30:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T01:30:27","slug":"ubmp-special-holiday-broadcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/ubmp-special-holiday-broadcasts\/","title":{"rendered":"UBMP Special Holiday Broadcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ubmplogosticker2018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34996\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ubmplogosticker2018-300x261.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ubmplogosticker2018-300x261.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ubmplogosticker2018.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn addition to its regularly- scheduled programming, UBMP (Uncle Bill&#8217;s Melting Pot), a program that presents music from around the world along with a little comedy now and then, will be presenting the following hour-long holiday specials for the Americas in December:<\/p>\n<p>1. Uncle Bill&#8217;s X-Mess Special, featuring Christmas music from around the planet, unusual holiday customs, a laugh or three and other stuff to help you escape the 86th version of that song you just heard 85 times&#8230;<br \/>\nTuesday, Dec 25 8-9pm Eastern US time (meaning Wednesday, 0100-0200 UTC) on WBCQ 5130 kHz for the Americas<br \/>\n2. Uncle Bill&#8217;s Rockless New Year&#8217;s Eve Special: We&#8217;ll take a look at some of the more unusual NYE \/ New Year&#8217;s Day rituals around the world with appropriate music to go with the countries in question. If you like to wear weird underwear, set fire to things or gorge on grapes, we may have just the thing for you&#8230;<br \/>\nMonday Dec 31 7-8pm Eastern US Time (meaning Tuesday, 0000-0100 UTC) on WBCQ 5130 kHz for the Americas<br \/>\nMonday, Dec 31, 1800-1900 UTC on Space Line, 9400 kHz, directed to Western Europe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to its regularly- scheduled programming, UBMP (Uncle Bill&#8217;s Melting Pot), a program that presents music from around the world along with a little comedy now and then, will be presenting the following hour-long holiday specials for the Americas in December: 1. Uncle Bill&#8217;s X-Mess Special, featuring Christmas music from around the planet, unusual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-99b","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":34983,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/ubmp-uncle-bills-melting-pot-holiday-specials\/","url_meta":{"origin":35165,"position":0},"title":"UBMP (Uncle Bill&#8217;s Melting Pot) Holiday Specials","author":"Bill Tilford","date":"November 27, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"In addition to its regularly- scheduled programming, UBMP (Uncle Bill's Melting Pot), a program that presents music from around the world along with a little comedy now and then,\u00a0 will be presenting the following hour-long holiday specials for the Americas\u00a0 in December: 1.\u00a0Uncle Bill's X-Mess Special, featuring Christmas music from\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ubmplogosticker2018-300x261.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":35338,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/ftiom-ubmp-uncle-bills-rockless-nye-special\/","url_meta":{"origin":35165,"position":1},"title":"FTIOM, UBMP &amp; Uncle Bill&#8217;s Rockless NYE Special","author":"Bill Tilford","date":"December 26, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"From the Isle of Music, December 30-January 5: This week, we celebrate the new year with a Cuban dance party including some new music that most of you have not heard before plus great music from past decades. 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