A communications device for improving reception of transmissions with first-adjacent co-channel interference signals corresponding to digitally-modulated side-bands of in-band 2. on-channel, IBOC, broadcasted signals, the device comprising: a radio frequency, RF, signal-reception circuit including at least two RF-signal paths (501-1, 501-2, 601-1, 601-2) driven in response to signals received via at least two respective antennas (505-1, 505-2, 605-1, 605-2) and including respectively-associated front-end circuits (513-1, 513-2, 613-1, 613-2) including analog-to-digital converter and signal-processing circuitry configured to respond to signals carried in the respective RF-signal paths by providing pre-processed RF output signals (507-1, 507-2, 607-1, 607-2); a beam-forming circuit driven in response to the signals received at the at least two respective antennas and configured and arranged in parallel with the two RF-signal paths of the RF signal-reception circuit to facilitate first-adjacent interference cancellation, FAC, by: providing a beam forming for first adjacent cancellation, BFFAC, signal as a function of the first-adjacent co-channel interference signals; using a statistically-based analysis to weight or assess a likelihood of the BFFAC signal indicating the first-adjacent co-channel interference signals are significant; and providing a beam-forming output signal in which weighting for noise-cancellation is provided for in response to the statistically-based analysis; and an interference-cancelling circuit configured and arranged to reduce the first-adjacent co-channel interference signals by combining the beam-forming output signal with the pre-processed RF output signals by using the statistically-based analysis of the BFFAC signal to compensate for the first-adjacent co-channel interference. a radio frequency, RF, signal-reception circuit including at least two RF-signal paths (501-1, 501-2, 601-1, 601-2) driven in response to signals received via at least two respective antennas (505-1, 505-2, 605-1, 605-2) and including respectively-associated front-end circuits (513-1, 513-2, 613-1, 613-2) including analog-to-digital converter and signal-processing circuitry configured to respond to signals carried in the respective RF-signal paths by providing pre-processed RF output signals (507-1, 507-2, 607-1, 607-2); a beam-forming circuit driven in response to the signals received at the at least two respective antennas and configured and arranged in parallel with the two RF-signal paths of the RF signal-reception circuit to facilitate first-adjacent interference cancellation, FAC, by: providing a beam forming for first adjacent cancellation, BFFAC, signal as a function of the first-adjacent co-channel interference signals; using a statistically-based analysis to weight or assess a likelihood of the BFFAC signal indicating the first-adjacent co-channel interference signals are significant; and providing a beam-forming output signal in which weighting for noise-cancellation is provided for in response to the statistically-based analysis; and providing a beam forming for first adjacent cancellation, BFFAC, signal as a function of the first-adjacent co-channel interference signals; using a statistically-based analysis to weight or assess a likelihood of the BFFAC signal indicating the first-adjacent co-channel interference signals are significant; and providing a beam-forming output signal in which weighting for noise-cancellation is provided for in response to the statistically-based analysis; and an interference-cancelling circuit configured and arranged to reduce the first-adjacent co-channel interference signals by combining the beam-forming output signal with the pre-processed RF output signals by using the statistically-based analysis of the BFFAC signal to compensate for the first-adjacent co-channel interference. <EOS>