Dave,
I had a quick look at the
RTE website and saw their plans for 252kHz. I think Atlantic 252 has been fairly widely listened to in Britain in recent years (although it's not my kind of station).
Sven,
Good point about LW. It's not used as a broadcast band in many parts of the world (e.g. North America), so many imported Japanese radios don't include it. They have to make specific European versions anyway to cater for the 9kHz channel spacing vs. 10kHz in the Americas, but with PLL tuning that's often just selectable with an internal link.
On the redundancy angle, you would have liked the old set-up in Britain, where the AM/MW and VHF/FM transmitters were simply simulcasts of the same program. In more recent years the MW broadcasts of some stations have been dropped leaving them on FM only, but we still have many local radio stations on both MW and FM.
