Entercom AMs to HD-3?

[wcozBoston]

With WBZ Radio now simulcasting on WODS HD-3, will Entercom follow suit and put WRKO and WEEI on their FM HD-3 stations also?

 

[DanStrassberg]

With WBZ Radio now simulcasting on WODS HD-3, will Entercom follow suit and put WRKO and WEEI on their FM HD-3 stations also?

That would be 93.7 and 97.7/107.3, right? I wonder how satisfactory the reception would be of the HD subchannels on those suburban and/or low-power FM signals in significant parts of the market. I suspect that Entercom may wait for the results of Greater Media's tests of higher-power HD subchannels. Those tests went on for a month or so on 102.5. Since 102.5 has now applied for (and has maybe been granted) permission to move its main site to the WBZ-TV tower (had been on FM-128), maybe those tests are now complete. Anybody know whether 102.5 is running HD-n at 10X the power everybody else is using, now that it has it has applied for (and maybe has been granted) a license to cover its new main site? I wonder whether trying to get a usable HD-3 signal in places like, say, Lexington and Winchester, from 107.3 in Hudson might finally put the last nail in the coffin of the disasterous move from Paxton.

 

[Eli Polonsky]

I wonder whether trying to get a usable HD-3 signal in places like, say, Lexington and Winchester, from 107.3 in Hudson might finally put the last nail in the coffin of the disasterous move from Paxton.

I thought 107.3 ended up on the Channel 27 tower in Boylston. I believe that the Channel 66 tower is in Hudson.

107.3 HD here in Somerville is a very difficult catch. I've gotten it, but it requires some acrobatics with my indoor antenna, and I'm on the side of a southwest facing hill. 97.7 HD comes in well. This is with a stationary home receiver. I don't know how they would do here in a car. I'd guess that 107.3 wouldn't demodulate HD in a moving car here, and 97.7 HD would probably be intermittent .