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21st Jan 2024, 6:09 pm
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Heptode
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Stockport, Cheshire, UK.
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Re: Droitwich reduced power??
In 2020 "31% of radio 4 listeners used LW" says the BBC
Since then "numbers have dropped off and we predict they will continue to do so" Too right they will, as you are slowly turning off all the transmitters. |
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21st Jan 2024, 6:24 pm
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Octode
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Location: Thetford, Norfolk, UK.
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Re: Droitwich reduced power??
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21st Jan 2024, 7:07 pm
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Heptode
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Stockport, Cheshire, UK.
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21st Jan 2024, 9:01 pm
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Nonode
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Stockport, Greater Manchester, UK.
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Re: Droitwich reduced power??
There are no plans to cease R4 transmissions on LW, it's the opt-out programmes like Test Match Special and Yesterday in Parliament which will be discontinued in April, moving to R5, or to 4 Extra on DAB
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24th Jan 2024, 4:56 pm
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Octode
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Co. Durham, UK.
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Re: Droitwich reduced power??
That's good to know.
Can't see the logic in it, though. |
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24th Jan 2024, 9:06 pm
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Dekatron
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Surrey, UK.
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Re: Droitwich reduced power??
I expect that it's to get more folk used to using other means of listening to what up to now were for them LW-only services before final cessation on 198. There's probably quite a bit of politics re. fringe areas and coverage to iron out in the meantime.
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24th Jan 2024, 9:18 pm
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Moderator
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Ipswich, Suffolk, IP4, UK.
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Re: Droitwich reduced power??
As a regular LW listener ,at least I won't have to switch to FM when the cricket is on.
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24th Jan 2024, 10:12 pm
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Octode
Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: Bristol, UK.
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Re: Droitwich reduced power??
I thought I'd read somewhere in a BBC release that total 998 kc/s shutdown would come in the 2nd quarter of 2024. If so, hardly a significant reprieve...
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