{"id":64876,"date":"2025-12-10T07:30:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T11:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=64876"},"modified":"2025-12-10T07:30:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T11:30:42","slug":"upcoming-marions-attic-2025-christmas-broadcasts-on-wbcq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/upcoming-marions-attic-2025-christmas-broadcasts-on-wbcq\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Marion\u2019s Attic 2025 Christmas Broadcasts on WBCQ"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor Fred Waterer for sharing the following update from Marion’s Attic. Fred received notice of two upcoming holiday-themed episodes airing on WBCQ. Here’s the message he received:<\/b><\/p>\n

Hello Fred,<\/p>\n

Marion’s Attic will be spinning upbeat, “Christmas Light”, 78 rpm Christmas records.\u00a0 T<\/p>\n

hat will be show number 1,022, airs Sunday, December 14th<\/strong>, at 2200 UTC, on WBCQ 7.490 MHz. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The following Sunday, December 21st,<\/strong> we will be airing show number 980, featuring “Traditional” Christmas music, from the collection of phonograph expert,\u00a0Baron von Knight.<\/p>\n

Show 980\u00a0did not air last year,\u00a0due to transmitter difficulties, and a web server glitch.\u00a0 We are pleased to air this fine program this Christmas season.
\nLovingly,<\/p>\n

Marion Webster
\nMarion’s Attic
\nWBCQ, the Planet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Fred Waterer for sharing the following update from Marion’s Attic. Fred received notice of two upcoming holiday-themed episodes airing on WBCQ. Here’s the message he received: Hello Fred, Marion’s Attic will be spinning upbeat, “Christmas Light”, 78 rpm Christmas records.\u00a0 T hat will be show number 1,022, airs Sunday, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[442,3,305,43],"tags":[2729,1551,2323,4100,611],"class_list":["post-64876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-shortwave-radio","tag-fred-waterer","tag-holiday-shortwave","tag-marions-attic","tag-music","tag-shortwave-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-gSo","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7868,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/shortwave-radio-recordings-marions-attic\/","url_meta":{"origin":64876,"position":0},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Marion’s Attic","author":"Thomas","date":"November 11, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"If you've never heard Marion's Attic on WBCQ, you don't know what you've been missing--especially if you love early music recordings. 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