and time for Santa to press the button and launch the music. Wallengren puts on a necklace made of ornaments that blink with colored lights. An adult-sized nutcracker stands along one wall, a Christmas tree fills one corner. “Santa Claus is magic.”Ĭhristmas ornaments hang from ceiling tiles in the studio and the crane-like mic stands are wrapped in festive ribbons. “Me being Santa, it’s just fun,” he says. KOST listeners can write in with requests for Wallengren to call their kids in the role of Santa, and he says little makes him happier than the awe he hears in the young believers’ voices. Wallengren grew up in the resort-like setting of Park City, Utah, where white Christmases were always accompanied by the heavy footsteps of his great-uncles on the roof sounding the arrival of the Santa his grandfather brought in. Inside Wallengren’s studio, the afternoon host talked about his deep and abiding love for the Christmas holidays while December Brown, the remarkably well-named KOST-FM digital content producer got prepped for a bit with Santa.
“A little bit of jolly, a little bit of nice go a long way.” “We need a little bit of a break, it’s been a rough year,” Santa said. There are, however, a few Grinches who always gripe that it comes too early, that Christmas music isn’t proper ‘til after Thanksgiving.īut it’s clear inside the iHeartRadio building in Burbank on Friday afternoon, as well as at the IHeartRadio Theater where lucky listeners who win call-in contests got treated to a Gwen Stefani holiday show a few hours later, that the holidays, and holiday music can’t get here soon enough.Īfter FaceTiming Sarkissian’s 9-year-old niece Lola - who, like Olivia, was told she had made Santa’s nice list - the jolly old elf talked a bit about the good cheer the season and its music deliver.
This is the 18th year for KOST-FM’s annual all-Christmas playlist, a tradition that those who listen to the station largely adore. Santa gives the sleigh bells attached to his broad black belt a little jingle, and you probably don’t need to be told that his eyes are all a-twinkle. “We are five minutes from wall-to-wall Christmas music right up to the first of the year!” he says in that rich voice that KOST listeners have heard weekdays on the Los Angeles radio station’s airwaves for the past 34 years.
Mark Wallengren presses a button inside his studio at KOST-FM/103.5 while Santa Claus, who’s sitting on a stool in the corner, updates listeners on the countdown.
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