In every market, we have had good HD experiences on AM and FM... NY,
Miami, Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Phoenix, LA, San Diego, San Francisco,
etc. All our engineers like it, and love the sound.

I call BS. I have personal reports that AM IBOC cannot be heard in downtown
Manhattan on a display radio.

Our (AFN) engineers say their crap sounds great, too. Yet the AM is full of
drops (not dropouts, the equipment actually shuts down for a half second
every minute or so), it is also overmodulated, clipped and overcompressed.
They also only feed one half a stereo feed into it, which makes it
interesting to listen to. The FM in many plants is either out of phase
(stereo mpx), shrill, or severely over or under modulated.

I'm a former broadcast engineer myself. I would be ashamed to claim I was
anywhere near any of these AFN sites. Me internet radio station sounds
better than any of them but their FM flagship, and it's only a 56K stereo
stream, I don't EXPECT it to sound like a good broadcast station.