What's up with the Christmas music?

Since I can remember, I've been hearing my mom complain about having to listen to so much Christmas music in December.  As far as I know, there are at least two radio stations that have switched to 'round-the-clock Christmas tunes, and those that I know of made the switch the Thanksgiving weekend.  It doesn't need to be pointed out how outrageously early this is, but since I just did, let me expand that thought.

These two stations began playing Christmas music twenty four hours per day on Thanksgiving day.  From Thanksgiving to Christmas, these stations will have played Christmas music for twenty seven days straight, amounting to a grand total of 648 hours, or 38880 minutes, of continuous Christmas music on each channel (this also means that some 7% of all songs on these stations are Christmas songs).  I may be wrong, but I don't think that there is a single person who listens to enough Christmas music that these stations need to play this music so gratuitously.  I can't even think of someone who wants to start listing to Christmas music before Christmas week.  Even if there were some fanatic of these jingles who made this viable, it's still unnecessary.

It's worth pointing out to these stations that not everyone celebrates Christmas.  While some people incorporate Christmas tradition into their holiday season without the Christian overtones (I won't mention why these aren't necessary at all), many non-Christians don't have anything to do with the holiday.  The fact that radio stations begin playing one holiday's songs 24/7 a month in advance only alienates large portions of listeners - including listeners like my mom, who celebrates Christmas and has sworn these stations off entirely in protest.

While this might not be viewed as a serious issue, it represents a much larger issue across the entirety of American culture.  Many public services are so wiling to cater to a single group of individuals that they ignore all others, and this cannot be allowed to continue.

EDIT:  Since this post, I have been informed that certain stations have actually begun playing Christmas music following Halloween.  This consideration almost doubles the amount of time that the music is played.  The original numbers are bad enough, so I don't need to dwell on this development.