Of course, when you turn on the tv today you might be hard pressed to know it's Christmas time. But I do remember as a kid that once Thanksgiving was over it was time for the old movies, tv specials and cartoons to appear.
We don't usually watch tv while eating dinner but for a treat the other night I popped in the Charlie Brown Christmas for the kids. Hadn't seen it in years. I explained to them that if you wanted to see an old favorite back in the day you had to watch because you only had that one chance every year.
I'm pretty sure we watched every Christmas special that was on. I, of course, remember the Bing/Bowie moment in 1977.
My mom never played records except at Christmas. I'm still partial to the Bing/Martin/Sinatra versions of the Christmas songs (though I never get tired of Josh Groban's album Noel).