daveor, have you replaced your radio yet? Just got around to installing that Jensen 975. It is of course not super high quality like Kenwood etc. But everything seems to work fine. It has lots of inputs and outputs including USB for iPod and HDMI to the tv.
And as for reception, I would rate it very good to excellent. It was a replacement for a Concertone. The customer said he was lucky to get one station at his house and no weather channel. Using seek I found at least 10 FM stations and the weather channel came in great.