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In the SF Bay area, plenty of people listen to Sacramento stations. Bay
side stations are often weak in 680 corridoor, and would be trashed if
central valley powerhouses started daytime IBOC.

The SF Bay area is a market where AM does well because the terrain
isn't friendly to FM, or because many people live far south of San
Fransciso. I could see problems if Monterey AM stations went IBOC in
the SF "normal" AM could suffer.

Afer all, IBOC isn't something for nothing. They are stealing what used
to be guard bands. It is no different as if the FCC all of a sudden
allowed normal AM broadcast stations to fill the empty channels.

Sure it is... if it were normal AM stations, it would still be QRM, but at
least we could make heads or tails out of what it was that was interfering
with our favorite stations.