Japanese Broadcasters Association calls for a system revision to abolish their AM broadcast services

This is news from KYODO(in Japanese). 

   According to a news interview to the officials on March 22nd, the Japanese private broadcasters decided to request the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications to revise the system reform to abolish AM radio broadcast and make it possible to convert it to FM broadcast. A representative from the Japan Commercial Broadcasters Association(JAB) will make a statement at the ministry's expert conference held on March 27th.

    Most of the AM broadcasters want to unify their broadcasts into the supplementary broadcasts (wide FM)  that is carried out as a disaster countermeasure in response to the stagnant advertising revenue from AM broadcasts. If the system reform is realized, there is a possibility that private AM broadcasts will be abolished in the future except for some areas such as Hokkaido.

    According to officials, JAB calls for a system revision by 2028 so that it can be converted from AM to FM.
(Note: I translated KYODO News on March 22nd written in Japanese to English.)