Maybe it's me:
Now that the corporate broadcasters have killed off the AM band, they have moved to killing off the FM band as well, in my original post.

They are trying to turn off all the terrestrial signals, hand in the licenses, go digital online and squeeze out the small independent net casters. It is already in motion. Notice the lack of interest in FM translators and LPFM which EMF has seized upon? The AM station exodus. Changing TX sites all the time. (You think it is irony they have moved the AM 780 stick to a 3rd home, so far? It is detuning it more and more every time, no need for it anymore).

What happens when the Chinese, Russia, or some hackers march in and take over? Shut off the Internet. How do people communicate? (they do not). In the 30s/40s WBBM-AM was a fortress with the ability to shoot anyone that approached the transmitter if we fell into enemy hands. Those behemoth AM stations were meant to communicate with the people, the citizens. Great idea, shut off the AM and FM bands to make the corporate pigs richer and the working class poorer, including losing the ability to communicate in emergency.

Z