David Eduardo wrote:


No, an attempt to jump into the digital world that was just not timely
enough. AM is pretty much dead, with little advertiser interest in most
of the remaining listeners.


The "digital world" is where machines live, not people. Until you can
make a $5 digital radio that runs for a week on a single AA battery you
have an inferior product.

As I said earlier, AM DX can't be preserved if there is a way of making
AMs more viable. As it is, the night listening levels to AM are about
25% of daytime levels, and there is no measured listening outside each
station's local groundwave coverage area. The need for night service
died when evening programming moved to TV, and then the FCC licensed
about 10,000 more local stations, obviating any need to listen to
scratchy, fading, staticy AM signals from afar.

What about stations from "afar" that sound better than the locals? Los
Angeles has nothing that comes close to the quality of KGO, both in
production values and technical air sound. Hell, KKOH in Reno has a
more together air sound than anything in L. A.