Yea, one has to wonder if the FCC was really an interested party in all this. The just caved to iBiquity as they don't seem to have much interest in standard terrestrial broadcasting.

Kudos and congratulations to the ones not satisfied to have eighty percent of something who instead covet one hundred ninety percent of everything. In our emerging third world techno-kleptocracy, they shall have it. For a while. They shall have it to the detriment of broadcasters jammed off their air by HD's bandwidth-eating adjacent-jamming listener-unfriendly pseudo-technology. They shall have the twelve remaining listeners, the rest having departed radio for the internet, podcasts, and myriad new media, having been driven from the radio they long enjoyed by a demented welter of buzzing called 'HD' by its slick, greaszy-wig promoters, known to the American citizens as iBLOC and iBUZZ. The airwaves belong to the citizens, not Struble, the FCC, nor the tediously predictable usual suspects who will see their ill gotten gains inexorably evaporate. This decision affirms the increasing perception that those who claim to bring change instead deliver shortage, reduction, and regression. History is larded with small minded greedyguts who just had to have it their way. For a time, they had their way. And then, inevitably, despite all their best efforts at arranging their ends, things changed. Paul Vincent Zecchino Manasoviet Key, Florida 30 January, 2010

No victory here because when you think about it – what else could they do? The FCC set the monster loose and now it’s out there like an old parade limping along with Struble as the bandleader. You have a few manufacturers that have a vested interest in it (primarily transmitter manufacturers) and investors that have lost their ass on it therefore the FCC had to allow a voluntary increase to save face. (Keyword here is voluntary.) Now the fun begins. Struble, The corrupt FCC had no other choice therefore you got what you wanted. We’ll see where this goes now. Let the lawsuits begin!

Increase the power for what? Ten of fifteen listeners that are probably employed in the commercial radio business. How stupid. This will amount to nothing.

The airwaves are dying and have become irrelevant. What is your solution to advancing this dark age technology of analog radio??? This power increase may or may not make any difference... but I back anything willing to bring us remotely close to the 21st century. Let's give it a chance. If nothing is done to try to improve Terrestrial radio (analog only)... it will surely become more irrelevant. Besides... AM dxing is so overrated and is a thing of the past. Gotta love all these naysayers all the time. An agenda they certainly have. When they claim iBiquity has one. Don't we all?