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When and how will AM die?

BMR said:
There are constant rumours about BBC Radio Four's LW transmitter in Droitwich. That has been going since the 1930s on basically the same channel, and it's getting harder and harder to source replacement parts. It clearly won't be long for this world, but we don't have a switch off date yet.
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I hope the last program aired is the Shipping Forecast, which most likely was among the first things to be broadcast over that transmitter.
 
BMR said:
There are constant rumours about BBC Radio Four's LW transmitter in Droitwich. That has been going since the 1930s on basically the same channel, and it's getting harder and harder to source replacement parts. It clearly won't be long for this world, but we don't have a switch off date yet.
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This will be the last MW transmitter left on in the world for one reason: it factors into the UK's war planning. Among the standing orders for submarine captains is what to do if the UK has been destroyed, and one of the ways to know it's been destroyed is that Radio 4 is off the air.
 
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