"RHF" wrote in message
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Then start writting the Obituary for AM/MW Radio
in a good part of Rural America right now [.]

The owners of stations in metro areas don't care about listening outside the
metro. They can not make any money from those listeners. On the other hand,
if there is a chance to make AM more viable in the future and the only
sacrifice is a handful of listeners outside the metro, that mean no income,
then the trade is very one-sided. The FCC agrees.

-cause- The Digital Noise Level {Background Hash}
from IBOC has made and impact on the Listenability
of several California Central Valley AM/MW Radio
Strations that I could pick-up and hear reasonably well
580 kHz - KMJ and 1530 kHz - KFBK come to mind.

Where are you? If you are not in the metro area of the station, the station
really does not care. They do care about surviving, though.