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Summary: Bauer will turn off AM transmitters carrying the national brand in Newcastle and South Yorkshire, along with Downtown Radio in Northern Ireland. Global is also in the process of turning off its AM services, whilst the BBC has been doing it for many years, including BBC Radio Scotland in 2020, and has plans to turn off 5 Live on AM and BBC Radio 4 on LW in the near future. - radiotoday.co.uk

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Monday, 13 November 2023
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Nicholas Anderson
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2:35 PM

It is surely wrong for the BBC who are still regarded as the principal UK broadcaster to shut down all national and regional AM transmitters whilst there are still AM only receivers operating within the UK.

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StevensOnln1
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3:00 PM

Nicholas Anderson: The number of people using AM only radios is probably tiny. The number who don't have access to FM, DAB, Freeview, satellite or internet radio will be even smaller. Spending millions of pounds broadcasting on AM to reach such a small number of people is a huge waste of money.

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Chris.SE
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3:01 PM

Nicholas Anderson:

What is wrong is not increasing the number of FM and DAB transmitters to cover the areas where there is now no coverage.

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Monday, 27 November 2023
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Willie Bone
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5:25 AM

Bauer Media has already calculated around 85% per cent of its audience have gone digital which is a far higher percentage proportion of the national average! So, Bauer has decided to pull the plug on its AM services in Scotland, Northern Ireland and North of England.
DXers excepted, how many people will notice the AM service has gone after December 13th?

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Nicholas Anderson
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2:49 PM

If AM service is to be discontinued by most providers how does one explain that Radio Caroline has an AM service they claim is still widely listened to in the South East of England and the near continent?

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Chris.SE
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2:53 PM

Nicholas Anderson:

Because it's Radio Caroline!

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StevensOnln1
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2:56 PM

Nicholas Anderson: Radio Caroline is a community station largely broadcasting to its own group of fans. It isn't a commercial station and therefore doesn't have the same financial considerations (i.e. it doesn't need to make a profit as long as enough people are willing to fund it).

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