Assuming that the Google Streetview didn't just have a different lens that time (it's pretty washed out and on the edge of its resolution), let's assume that it

Assuming that the Google Streetview didn't just have a different lens that time (it's pretty washed out and on the edge of its resolution), let's assume that it was actually gone. It's very difficult to imagine someone knowing that the station was gone if they really didn't care if it existed or not. Why would they be incented to track it if all their listeners were on AM? (OT, but this simulcasting license from the FCC seems more like an effort to finally kill off AM than to strengthen it, since essentially all radios handle FM now and have for at least my entire life. If you could receive the same broadcast on FM, why wouldn't you choose that instead? You can get FM stations even in the middle of nowhere, and they're not crackly.)