Top 10 All-Christmas Stations Outdeliver Last Year’s Total Audience.

Santa’s big gift for Inside Radio’s TOP 10 PPM stations switching to all Christmas music wasn’t under the tree, but rather in these stations’ persons 6+ cume delivery during Nielsen’s Holiday 2025 survey, compared to a year ago.

Taken together, cume for these 10 stations rose 8.5% from Holiday 2024, with nine of the 10 showing higher delivery vs. last year, six stations overdelivering that average, and five doing so with double-digit lifts.

While iHeartMedia adult contemporary “106.7 Lite FM” WLTW once again leads the top 10 with a 4.6 million cume, up 10.7% year-over-year, the biggest gainer is 10th-ranked Audacy AC “Magic 106.7” WMJX Boston, its 1.2 million cume a 15.7% increase from Holiday 2024.

Other all-Christmas stations with double-digit growth year-over-year are: iHeartMedia ACs “Sunny 99.1” KODA Houston with a 2.4 million cume, and “99.9 K-EZ” KESZ Phoenix at 1.5 million, both up 12.3% from Christmas past; and iHeartMedia AC “Star 102.1” KDGE Dallas posting at 1.8 million, up 10.4%.

iHeartMedia claims all the top five, with — in addition to WLTW, KODA and KDGE — second-ranked Los Angeles AC KOST with 3.5 million, up 9.3 year-over-year, and Chicago soft AC “93.9 Lite FM” WLIT, with 2.1 million for a 7% gain.

Overall, iHeartMedia places seven Christmas flippers in the top 10, as AC WNIC Detroit comes in ninth with 1.3 million, off just 1.2% from a year ago. Audacy lands two, with WMJX and AC “B101.1” WBEB Philadelphia, the latter with a 1.7 million cume, up 2.8%. That leaves eight-ranked Bonneville AC KOIT San Francisco at 1.4 million, up 1% year-over-year.

Just outside the top 10 is the only other station to hit the 1-million cume mark during the Holiday 2025 survey: iHeartMedia AC WASH Washington, DC, posting at 1.1 million, up a whopping 20.1% from last year’s Holiday book.