I know what the problem is... you are stubborn and do not understand that
few listeners are even interested in non-local stations, and when combined
with signals that are not reliable day and nigh and which can be subject to
interference, they don't listen to them.

The real problem is that you, Edweenie, don't realize that you are posting in
what is ostensibly a *hobby* news group, where folks actually *do* listen to
things that fall outside of the parameters of your little fantasy world.

It's not a fantasy world. It's just that we (here) don't fit into the
demographics of the vast majority of AM listeners. If we had it our way,
there would be no interference problems to prohibit us from listening to
distant AM stations. But the consequence of that would be fewer AM
stations in the future to listen too. You can't have the first without
the second, given the state that AM radio is in now. Unfortunately for
us, the numbers will win in the end and we really can't do anything
about it. As he said, radio is all about the money.