Detroit Pistons moved to CBS due to HD Radio interference

Pete Skorich, Detroit Pistons Director of Broadcasting, addressed a
rumor that RBR-TVBR heard regarding a rate reduction in The Detroit
Pistons contract with Clear Channel’s Sports WDFN-AM 1130 kHz over
poor reception in the evenings. Details had it that 50-kW KMOX St.
Louis (1120) and 50-kW WRVA Richmond (1140) were killing WDFN’s
nighttime signal because of their skywave HD Radio carriers on 1130.
Well, Skorich tells us there was no rate reduction but instead a
complete move to CBS Radio’s The Ticket (WXYT) simulcast of 97.1 and
1270 some two years ago.

But he did note it was because of reception complaints: “That was one
of the components, and we were with them for five years. They had a
weak signal and we were getting a lot of people that could not hear
us. It could have been [because of] HD Radio, but at the time we were
totally unaware of it.”

WDFN is 50-kW during the day, but lowers its power to 10-kW in the
evenings. CBS Radio's KMOX added HD Radio in May, 2006. In the Summer
of 2008, CC Radio pulled WRVA’s nighttime digital signal “due to
destructive interference to three high-power AM stations the company
owns in Detroit, Milwaukee and Minneapolis operating on adjacent 1130
kHz,” according to StopIBOC.com. This was potentially just after the
Pistons moved to The Ticket.

RBR-TVBR observation: This has been a complaint from time to time for
local stations affected at night by first-adjacent 50-kW skywave
stations. Even full-time 50-kW AMs have issues in their markets from
distant HD Radio skywave signals.

But this is the first time we’ve heard it could have been a factor in
programming and associated revenue. You may note that on 1270 AM,
there are no first adjacent 50-KW stations that would add HD Radio
interference onto its signal. As well, it is 50-KW full-time.

http://www.rbr.com/radio/detroit-pis...erference.html

Well, Struble and the rest of the HD loons, you did it to yourselves!
Let's up the power to -2db on FM, too (oh, that's right, only 150 FM
stations are interested in upping power to max -10db). Stupid ****s -
LMFAO!!! Let's totally destroy radio, so Struble can get his IPO!