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@decvalts.bsky.social

The end of an era! The last broadcast of BBC Radio 4 on Longwave (198kHz). The transmitter will be switched off at the end of June after nearly a century of transmission from Droitwich.

27/6/26, 12:48 am14 reposts34 likes

Declan Valters

@decvalts.bsky.social

1 July

and finally the automated message stopped transmitting yesterday at noon. Just background static on 198kHz now 🥲. You might like this final video from Ringway Manchester: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRYT...

youtube.comThe Radio 4 Long Wave Transmitter Was Just Switched Off For The Last TimeYouTube video by Ringway Manchester

@CreativeCamden

@creativecamden.bsky.social

29 June

A wave of nostalgia has just swept over me.

Adrian Jackson

@adrianjhpc.bsky.social

27 June

Surely should have been sailing by as the last song

Adrian Jackson

@adrianjhpc.bsky.social

27 June

Although I was also partial to the UK theme before it was dropped

Red Moon #FBPE 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🍁

@undercovermole.bsky.social

27 June

And next the shutdown of BBC Radio 5 live on Medium Wave by the end of next year. Both the Redruth transmitter in Cornwall, and the transmitter in Folkestone in Kent, will both cease transmissions on 31st July 2026.