I personally hope it's a short-lived technical issue. I don't know the bandwidth requirements, but many of the songs KESZ usually plays during the Christmas music period are monaural, so it doesn't _seem_ like they'd need a lot of bandwidth. I wouldn't know whether that's part of their thinking or not, though. I refuse to listen to any all-Christmas format before the first of December, and even then I tend to listen in short snippets only, apart from on or right around Christmas itself. I have 99.9-HD3 as a preset in the car, which now has no reason to be there.
AM 910 is fine, but I'm super-far west and it turns out that my initial ability to receive that broadcast in HD was a one-night-only thing, it appears. Last night was particularly good again, but at best it kept switching in and out of HD such that I eventually turned the radio a bit so it'd stay analog. I would very much like them to either put the Coyotes games back onto HD-2, or figure out how to improve the AM broadcast coverage (I recognize that's not likely a quick, easy, or cheap thing to do even after any necessary FCC approvals are won). I struggle to understand some of the nearly-treble-free broadcast with all the noise on the analog broadcast. I don't care for 'sports talk' in the least, but I was really happy to be able to hear Coyotes games this season.
