Cue The Christmas Music

Jon Ellis's excellent Upper Midwest Broadcasting website reports that KSRZ (104.5 FM) is the first Omaha radio station (and first in Nebraska) to go to an all-Christmas format. The switch by "Star 104.5" occurred Monday.

Since 2001, Ellis has been tracking Midwest radio stations that have gone entirely to a Christmas format in advance of the holiday. Four stations in Nebraska made the change last year, down from the six stations that did it in 2004, 2005 and 2006.

Ellis is currently an assistant news director at WDIO-TV (ABC) in Duluth, Minn.