"A Brown" wrote in message
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(well, much of the time anyway.. since IBOC interferes with reception of
adjacent, second adjacent, and even in some cases, co-channel reception.

IBOc doesn't "interfere" with anything you really want to listen to.

If there is a co-chanel station you want to hear, you are probably not in
the priomary listening zone...as stations would not be placed that close
to each other in the same area.

Please don't try to tell ME or anyone else what we DON'T want to hear. There
are millions of people across the country that do not live in major metro
areas, and don't want to listen to their local radio. And you didn't even
address adjacent channel and second adjacent interference, which HAS been
proved many times over. Before IBOC, there were two co-owned stations, one
in Seattle on 97.3, one in Portland on 97.1. I could listen to the same
programming (not something I care about in most cases, but in this case I
did) all the way from Portland to Seattle, and only need to click the radio
up one position at some point around Longview/Kelso. Now, anywhere in that
middle area, it's nearly impossible to listen to EITHER signal. I know many
people in Longview/Kelso. Most of those I know do not listen to local radio.
They listen to Portland radio (and watch Portland television). At least
they did until several of the stations started running IBOC, now they're a
captive audience to local stations.. those that didn't just turn off their
radios completely and listen to CD's and MP3's.

It's supposed to be a free country. I for one, and there are a great many
others, don't like being told what to listen to.