Radio Nation Christmas

Nation Christmas is Nation Broadcasting's festive music service. The broadcaster also uses the Nation Xmas name for this station. Its programme centres on Christmas songs, bringing together familiar seasonal recordings within a dedicated listening choice.

The station's playlist brings together performers from several generations of Christmas pop. Brenda Lee's Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree and Andy Williams's It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year represent established seasonal standards. Paul McCartney's Wonderful Christmastime, Jona Lewie's Stop the Cavalry and Chris de Burgh's A Spaceman Came Travelling add different British pop approaches to the festive selection.

The range also includes Boney M's Mary's Boy Child, Coldplay's Christmas Lights and Dina Carroll's The Perfect Year. These examples show that Nation Xmas combines traditional seasonal associations with later pop recordings, rather than concentrating on a single decade, choir style or instrumental format. Its recent selection has also included Idina Menzel's Let It Go, bringing a familiar screen-song connection into the winter-themed mix.

Nation publishes the service as an all-day music channel under its specialist-station collection. The festive repertoire supplies the organising theme throughout that programme, while the artists and arrangements change from one record to the next. It sits within Nation Broadcasting's wider family but keeps a separate Xmas identity, allowing Christmas standards, seasonal pop and newer recordings to share a dedicated station rather than appearing only as occasional additions to a general playlist.