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On 7/10/2025 7:54 PM, JAB wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jul 2025 16:53:59 -0400, Michael Trew
> <michael.trew@att.net> wrote:
> 
>> AM/MW is dead overseas
> 
> Large networks of transmitters are remaining in the UK, Spain and
> Romania.
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_wave#Use_in_Europe

Maybe so, but I've read that commercial broadcast stations on that dial 
are dwindling in number.  Canada dumped their public broadcast AM 
stations.  AM 740 was once public radio in Toronto, now it plays an 
oldies/nostalgia format.  Someone bought the station from the Canadian 
government.