Yup, the FCC is bought and paid for by iNiquity!

In challenging reception areas (like the far out suburbs of many cities where a lot of the newer audiences live), HD radio will at last be a reception enhancement to analog FM if the 6dB goes through. At it's current level (-20dBc) the HD recepton is good when the analog reception is already good, which has meant up to now there has been little incentive to upgrade. To Joe six pack good sound is when the reception is clear and stable. To the slightly more advanced listener HD radio is 20kHz audio frequency response with high S/N ratio. To the pure audiophile, they will always find something wrong with HD radio sound, but in a mobile environment there is a lot more wrong with analog FM compared to HD FM. It's time to move on to IBOC or radio will certainly have a slow death. BTW HD-AM is the best thing since Marconi. Just need to go to pure digital AM HD and nearly all the night-time interference issues go away (i.e. the controversial sideband problem will be a non-issue then).