It's sad and what's even sadder is the fact that this entire situation is absolutely avoidable.
Right now KBC is paying nearly $300 to use the Nauen transmitting station, if they switched to WBCQ ($25 to $50 an hour) or WRMI ($50 an hour) to broadcast to the U.S, that would immediately solve any financial difficulties for that transmission, and it would give them the same signal that they get from Nauen usually.
As for the European broadcast, even WRMI can be clearly heard in Europe on the right antennas, they ought to just have invested in that.
A real shame.