Mark Roberts wrote:

It wasn't possible for me to determine from my Bay Area location
tonight whether the station was on the air; the 1420 kHz signal
did not make it far into the Bay Area, whether day or night.
Still, it was a distinctive and local voice, far too rare in an era
of corporate repeater radio.

Looks like they stayed til the bitter end. How many Top 40 or CHR or whatever
stations are still on AM? Hardly a handful. I was surprised over the years
that they never switched the formats between the stations, but I guess the FM
format was just too lucrative (at least in the past, anyway).

According to one of the Record articles, the AM may come back on the air. I
suspect it will, since evern the most marginal AM stations are still finding
ways to stay in business. Think KVTO, KWG, etc.