Out-of-market stations on HD

[CTListener]

WTIC-FM Hartford carries WBZ-FM Boston (The Sports Hub) on its HD3 channel. The feed is silent when live sports events are being carried. Is CBS Radio using its HD streams to carry out-of-market signals anywhere else? Also, if a PPM-wearing listener in Hartford listens to this HD signal, does he count as a listener to WTIC-FM, which contributes nothing to the programming or advertising on the signal, or to WBZ-FM, of which this signal is a 100 percent simulcast, Boston-targeted ads and all, minus live sports?

 

[rbrucecarter5]

In Houston they attribute all HD-2 ratings to the parent station. Specifically the "NGEN" format of KSBJ, which is available on a rim shot station, translators, and their HD-2. All of those ratings are combined on the rim shot.

 

[tomservo]

I haven't heard it recently, but I understand CBS does this with WJFK in Washington. HD2 is CBS Sports, HD3 is WFAN from New York and HD4 is WJZ? from Baltimore.

 

[bobdavcav]

Baltimore makes sense as it's only 35 miles from DC, but I think WFAN was also being carried on WHFS before it was spun off. I'm not sure what the strategy behind this is, just like I'm not sure of the strategy behind turning WEEI into a regional network.

 

[stewie]

Baltimore makes sense as it's only 35 miles from DC, but I think WFAN was also being carried on WHFS before it was spun off. I'm not sure what the strategy behind this is, just like I'm not sure of the strategy behind turning WEEI into a regional network.

I think it's a brilliant idea. I wish Clear Channel or CBS would do that and carry some of the stations from San Francisco on the HD-2's of some of the stations in Sacramento.