Read this: Gold to lose its London 1548 frequency ahead of 50th anniversary
Summary: Gold's 1548 kHz AM London frequency will be turned off at the end of this month by Global. The station, which started life as Capital Radio, has been on medium wave in London since it launched in October 1973 - almost 50 years ago. - radiotoday.co.uk
radiotoday.co.ukGold to lose its London 1548 frequency a…Transcriptions done by Google Cloud Platform.
Lots more recommendations to read at Trends - ukfree.tv.
Summaries are done by Clipped-Your articles and documents summarized.
Tuesday, 22 August 2023
N
Nicholas Anderson9:42 AM
Does the decision to close down the AM frequency of Gold radio for the greater London area mean an eventual switch off all AM transmissions including those of the BBC?
| link to this comment |
S
StevensOnln110:47 AM
Nicholas Anderson: Ofcom have already announced that they expect the remaining BBC and commercial AM stations to close by 2027. Absolute Radio already closed their national AM station a few months ago and most of the local AM licences owned by Bauer Media have already closed, with Global Radio announcing the closure of most of theirs along with Gold London. Radio 4 LW will cease to have separate programming from March 2024 and will likely close completely in another year or 2 once the energy companies who are currently funding it no longer need 198 LW to broadcast the switching signals for Economy 7 meters. Most BBC local stations have also closed their AM transmitters over the last 10 years.
| link to this comment |
Tuesday, 29 August 2023
It is sad that AM or medium and long wave band transmissions are to be phased out by 2027 as the signals are so much more robust than DAB or low power FM and the decision will mean that reception will be impossible on all old or vintage radios.
| link to this comment |