Still, I guess I wonder why something couldn't be done or do they see the handwriting on the wall way better than I do, or will acknowledge.

1) AM allowed to decline for years. Network programming, bird voices and automated crap is not an audience loyalty generator or motivator. (Like FM ignored Napster, MP3's and early Netcasters)

2) AM radios were degraded, to save a few dollars in parts the sound got muddier and muddier throughout the years.

3) AM Stereo = Let the market dictate the standard (lol that worked out well)

4) IBOC is the worst standard they could have chosen and palm greasing won over this one. There are so many stations still TX it. (sarcasm)

5) They did something on AM. Brokered block programming, no money returned to improve the future. (lol that ended well too, they all left for Netcasting).

6) Auto manufacturers not including it on head units anymore.

7) Cell phone manufacturers not including it (not like they could due to technological challenges)

8) High cost to TX those transmitters, antenna maintenance, value of ground underneath (urban sprawl, suburban sprawl and increased value).

9) A whole generation has no clue or interest, what AM radio is. (We can't fool ourselves to educate them on it, they will not turn in 128KPBs Stereo bitrate for 4Khz mono)

10) I am too tired to keep on.......

SW radio is in the same boat. Even pirates have vacated the bands.

John, this is not against you or trying to step over you. It is to illustrate off of your statement, what can really be done at this point? It is nothing you and I have done or not done as consumers. But it is squarely on the corporations that own them and secondary the government not being part of the solution. You don't become proactive when a cancer patient is in hospice, you attack it when it is onset. Corporations have been complacent, bad decisions, not forward thinking, more interested to appease shareholders. FM radio is not hospice at this point, but it is somewhere between Stage #2 and #3 and will meet the same fate as AM.

Z