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A couple of changes on iHeartRadio that I noticed - National Stations

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A few nights ago I was driving and listening to iHeartRadio's "Soft Rock" feed (AC format) and at the top of the hour heard an ID "KSNE-HD2 Las Vegas." Everything else was the standard "I Heart Radio" format. Just the one ID - I thought perhaps it was a rogue mistake that somehow slipped through - that perhaps the feed was being generated by KSNE for iHeart's purposes. But over the course of the weekend, I have heard different single stations with IDs at the top of the hour. Most recently, I heard "Today's Mix" using "WLKO-HD2 Hickory (NC)" and on the Sunny Channel, they actually ran the calls over the short jingle bed that Sunny uses - I believe it was the station in Detroit. I know they weren't running these ID's before and I haven't (as yet) listened to any one station for more than an hour to see if they are using the same ID's every hour or changing them up each hour. I am wondering something - either a) the formats are being produced and generated by these stations for the national feed, which seems a little odd for some of the smaller stations programming the entire national format, OR perhaps by ID'ing one or more stations, they are somehow skirting a royalty issue, where they can say that the format is not aimed at the entire country, just a local area and any extra listening is simply a bonus, just like their hundreds of local market stations.

I also noticed that after a fairly short run, they have retired the local market News, Weather and Traffic channels that they were doing for about 40 markets nationwide - these were similar to the XM Traffic Channels in that they were loops of about two minutes of local news, weather and traffic. They still have the 24/7 National News Feed for now, and on the Custom stations it looks like they may still have some of the local information.

Any thoughts?
 
Follow up - was listening to "Today's Mix" again and heard the same ID for WLKO - they run it completely dry with no elements before and about a one second pause after - obviously for the other HD2 stations carrying the feed to run an ID, although the jingle for "Sunny" incorporated the ID into its feed. Also, chuckled that the jock came on after the first song and said "it's a bit past ten o'clock . . . " It's 7 here in the West. Normally the jocks keep their patter very generic just as the old satellite jocks used to do and don't give time references, etc. Maybe he screwed up - I know a lot of their jocks are local jocks that do some extra tracks for the national stations, so maybe he sort of forgot that he was being heard across the country?
 
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