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Only BBC Radio London broadcasts a 24-hour service. As with BBC Local Radio, the BBC's national radio stations also carried a UK-wide station during downtime. BBC Radio Scotland initially took BBC Radio 4 due to Radio 4 not being on VHF/FM across most of Scotland until the end of the 1980s. BBC Radio Ulster, for the same reason, carried Radio 4 ...
The Radio Teleswitch Service is broadcast alongside the longwave output of BBC Radio 4 from the Droitwich Transmitting Station. In October 2011, the BBC stated that the Droitwich transmitter, including Radio 4's longwave service and Radio Teleswitch, will cease to operate when one of the last two valves breaks, and no effort would be made to ...
Droitwich Masts at the Droitwich transmitting station Droitwich Transmitting Station (Worcestershire) Location Droitwich, Worcestershire Mast height 213.36 metres (700 ft) Coordinates 52°17′48″N 2°06′19″W / 52.296666666667°N 2.1052777777778°W / 52.296666666667; -2.1052777777778 Grid reference SO929663 Built 1934 The Droitwich transmitting station is a large broadcasting ...
The switch-off was noticed by few, since the overwhelming majority receive TV via cable and only around 74,000 households relied on terrestrial over-the-air broadcasts. [2] The switch-off was helped greatly as cable continued to use analog distribution, and thus consumers' old tuners continued to be useful.
BBC Radio 4 is the second-most-popular British domestic radio station by total hours, [8] after Radio 2.It recorded its highest audience, of 11 million listeners, in May 2011, [9] and was "UK Radio Station of the Year" at the 2003, 2004, 2008 and 2023 Radio Academy Awards.
While BBC Radio London, albeit with some further minor interruptions, continues to take the show, the rest of the network switches to BBC Radio 5 Live. [4] 4 January Ian Shepherd joins Central Radio to present weekend breakfast. [5] Former Key 103 presenter Jonathan Miles joins Happy Radio UK to present a weekly show on Saturday evenings. [6]
BBC Switch was the brand for BBC content aimed at UK teenagers. The brand was launched on Saturday 20 October 2007 on BBC Two and ceased broadcasting on 18 December 2010. It included a block of television programmes on BBC Two , an online portal and programming on the BBC's youth radio station, BBC Radio 1 .
It was originally planned for the analogue switch-off to occur on 31 December 2002, but this was achieved 15 months earlier. The last three channels, Sky Premier, Sky One and Sky Sports 2, were switched off at 00:01 on 28 September 2001. [1] Sky analogue equipment could still pick up German channels until 30 April 2012 when they were shut down.