It has gotten so crazy with the holiday book that some Country stations actually do go Christmas music as a stop gap for that 6 weeks of ratings bleeding. From what I've seen it does keep the ratings steady but they never make a viable challenge to the heritage ac Christmas station. It also doesn't seem to damage the brand even when there is Country competition in said market. I don't think that XTU would do this next year but I wouldn't be surprised if they did.