Thats your opinion that you seem to repeat ad nauseam here and under your other name on the Free Radio board, almost gloating at the decline of medium wave.

Energy is an anorak project putting a signal on the air just because they can. They receive reception reports from many European DXers.

Radio North on 846 kHz and Radio Star Country on 981 kHz are broadcasting from the Republic of Ireland mainly to an audience in the north. They are commercial operators and you only have to listen to them to be clear they have an audience, maybe not a large one, but still an audience. Enough of an audience to attract commercials.