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Or they could just do what a lot of major AM stations have done and add HD Radio to their existing analogue AM signal.  Best of both worlds with coverage remaining good.

I really hope we never go to anything similar to DRM in this part of the world.  Every time I go back to visit family in Europe I'm appalled at how piss-poor radio reception has become as a result of that changeover.

AM here in Dallas used to have AM 770 that was a great 70's and 80's channel.  They opted to go to a religious format and became like 80% of the material on AM.   WBAP 1040 is good news.   A Korean channel.   Really not much of note on our AM dial now honestly.

^ That's the real issue, the content. You can thank big corporate radio for a lot of that among other issues.