The Wychbold Masts will no longer transmit LW with the switch-off expected at 00:01 BST on Saturday. A spokesperson for the BBC said the move came as the equipment was reaching the end of its life.

There will be no specially commissioned farewell for the BBC’s Long Wave (LW) radio service when it ceases transmission at ...

BBC Radio 4 broadcasts on Long Wave will end on 27 June 2026, ahead of the Long Wave platform closing on 30 June 2026.

The decline of AM broadcast radio is a slow but inexorable process over much of the world, but for regions outside America there’s another parallel story happening a few hundred kilohertz further down ...

There’s a quirk of broadcasting in Europe left over from the earliest days of the medium, which our American readers may not have encountered. As well as the familiar AM band, Europeans and Africans ...

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