Re: Will someone please shoot this poor, dying horse?
"I imagine by 2030 this will be largely a moot point thanks to ubiquitous access to Spotify, podcasts, apps etc via 5G"
All of that takes an enormous amount of back end to make go. Any break in the chain and it's crickets. Switch to another station, still crickets. If an FM station is off the air, chances are that others aren't unless the JCB operator sliced through a major fibre installation that also included all of the upstream signals to an antenna farm on the hill.