Dane, No, they are not taking it off air in 2016, 2020 at the very very earliest.
Do you want a long wave scan or just samples of stations? I am quite happy to do a scann for you, waiting on each station for a few minutes, but please be aware, I am located only three miles from the local transmitter which carries A.M services and we get some imaging at the hf end of long wave. As for sets being sold with long wave, I am not aware of any lack, certainly down here in Hampshire. Radio 4 is on 198kHz and RTE1 (or is it 2)? is on 252kHz. R4 is reasonable but again, suffers problems due to the local A.M transmitter, primarily because we have Talk Sport on 1107kHz which generates a hetrodyne on 198kHz, I have not yet found a radio which totally nulls this, if you care to work it out, 1107 minus 198 = more or less double the i.f of many sets, i.e 909, most sets have an i.f of 465, 455 is half 909, rather close to the i.f of 465, which most sets tend to use, least those which have a.m on the lf and mf bands. RTE on 252 here, is not very strong, but then being on the south coast, the signal not really being very strong from the transmitter, it not really a surprise.
