A classic piece of tech is becoming redundant: BBC waves bye-bye to its Long Wave broadcasts
- The BBC has turned off its Long Wave (LW) service
- BBC 4 joins the digital-only party
- Radios will likely soon need to support digital to be viable
If you still rock a retro, decades-old radio (and live in the UK), you're probably going to have to pop down to your local electronics store, because it's well on its way to becoming defunct.
BBC 4, the last radio station in the UK to use Long Wave (LW) radio, has now been taken off the airwaves. And by that I mean, it's still going digitally and on FM analog radio, but it's the final station to be taken off BBC's Long Wave service — and thus, the power there has been switched off.
This follows a several-decades-long trend, which started in 1995 when the Beeb launched its first-ever DAB broadcast. Over time, digital-only stations and the slow shutdown of aging long-wave tech...
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