Holidays on FUV: 2025

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by WFUV Staff | 12/17/2025 | 12:00am
 

Photo by Artin Bakhan via Unsplash.

The holidays are here with tinsel and lights and WFUV has special seasonal programming ahead. 

Below, the schedule of festive mixes and shows on 90.7 FM, also streaming online (all times EST), from December 19-January 1.

Friday, December 19

Listen back to weekend shows via the Archives for up to two weeks.

  • 6pm-9pm - The Whole Wide World with Delphine Blue
  • 9pm-midnightThe Alternate Side with Russ Borris has holiday songs and best of 2025 tracks.

Saturday, December 20

  • 6am-10am - FUV Music Mix with Janet Bardini 
  • 10am-1pm - FUV Music Mix with Delphine Blue
  • 1pm-4pmFUV Music Mix with Emma Philippas
  • 4pm-8pm - Mixed Bag with Don McGee - It's a "Mixed Bag" Christmas as Don breaks out holiday favorites of all kinds. He'll also play some songs that weren’t written as holiday songs, but could have been. Bring on the egg nog!
  • 8pm-11pm - FUV Music Mix with Benham Jones

Sunday, December 21

  • 12pm-4pm - Ceol na nGael celebrates a Celtic Christmas with an afternoon of Irish Christmas favorites, including Mick Moloney, Cherish the Ladies, The High Kings, and many more.
  • 4pm-6pm - John Platt's Sunday Supper with Emma Philippas. Cozy up with a mug of somethin’ warm this afternoon as Emma features Christmas tunes from "Sunday Supper" staples like Kathleen Edwards, Lucinda Williams, Bob Dylan, and more. 
  • 6pm-9pm -  Cavalcade with Paul Cavalconte embraces winter on this solstice evening, with cold-weather songs to warm the heart. No grousing about slipping on ice, fighting snowdrifts, cracked hands and chapped lips
  • 9pm-11pm FUV Mix with Benham Jones.
  • 11pm-midnight - UKNY with Kara Manning is adrift with songs of snow, carols of Christmas, and other end-of-year winter reveries via Rosie Lowe, Home Counties,  Laura Mvula, The Divine Comedy and more.

Wednesday, December 24

  • 6pm-midnight - Home for the Holidays Christmas Eve mix. Nothing but songs in the spirit of the season and Christmas (the DJs have the night off).

Thursday, December 25

  • Midnight-1:30am -  Midnight Mass from Fordham University Church
  • 2am-4am - World Café
  • 4am-midnight - An all-day Home for the Holidays mix of Christmas songs and more; a soundtrack for your day of festivities. (The DJs have the day off).

Saturday, December 27

  • 4pm-8pm - Mixed Bag with Don McGee. Join Don for the final "Mixed Bag" of 2025. Who knows what the year end will bring? And, what’s in store for the New Year?

Sunday, December 28

  • 12pm-4pm - Ceol na nGael  wraps up a month of Celtic Christmas music with an afternoon of Irish Christmas favorites, including Dervish, The Chieftains, and Seamus Egan.
  • 4pm-6pm - John Platt's Sunday Supper with Emma Philippas
  • 6pm-9pm - Cavalcade with Paul Cavalconte welcomes Rachael and Vilray for a Studio A session, performing songs from their whimsical new West Of Broadway album.
  • 9pm-11pm - FUV Mix with Benham Jones
  • 11pm-midnight - UKNY with Kara Manning rounds up more fave 2025 British and global singles and albums, including Self Esteem, Emma-Jean Thackray, Black Country, New Road, and John Glacier.

Wednesday, December 31

  • 8pm-2am - WFUV's New Year's Eve Party Mix - Getting ready for a fancy cocktail shindig? Planning on a low-key night of lasagna with friends? Partying in your flannel pajamas at home? FUV is your soundtrack for that segue of 2025 to 2026.

Missed any of the weekend holiday specials? You can find them in the Archives for two weeks after broadcast.  

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