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Further changes to some bbc local radio medium wave services
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<blockquote data-quote="Fisty McB" data-source="post: 1083185" data-attributes="member: 389824"><p>Are we to take seriously a claim from some random anonymous poster on a popular Internet forum? Unless said poster has been there for some time & has a reputation of accurately delivering predictions, announcements or news well ahead of them being made public or being "leaked" by others in the industry, then such a claim is worth next to nothing.</p><p></p><p>A major issue is that a large section of BBC R5L's audience right now still listen to them via Medium Wave, particularly in vehicles that don't have DAB tuners in the head end - although this is slowly decreasing & is no longer an absolute majority of them. They may make an announcement in due course of closing down some of the low power MW TX sites (following the examples of Absolute Radio last year and Talk Sport's plans later this year) especially in places where the MW service area is otherwise well covered by DAB**, but a complete closedown of the whole 909/693/990 network without both a significant period of notice and if a notable amount of listeners still use the network - especially as R5L doesn't have full time FM coverage to fall back on, compared to BBC local radio stations - would likely lead to public complaints. I'd reckon that it'll definitely outlast Absolute going off MW entirely, and quite likely Talk Sport too - though again that will depending on how their audience listen to them, they have a similar profile to R5L IIRC.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">**Where I live, R5L reception from Enniskillen on 693 kHz is usually reliable 24/7, but neither Absolute or Talk Sport have ever transmitted from the same site (in the past BBC R3 was on 1197 kHz and BBC R1 on 1053 kHz) meaning that the best reception for them comes from Lisnagarvey (nr Belfast) about 75 miles away, but they (as well as R5L on 909 kHz from there) can be weakish during daytime, and at night they all suffer from fading & distortion from co-channel skywave from TXs in Britain - Absolute especially, even during daytime at this time of year. In terms of the Enniskillen MW service area for R5L, there are quite a few black spots in terms of coverage of the BBC National DAB ensemble. </span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fisty McB, post: 1083185, member: 389824"] Are we to take seriously a claim from some random anonymous poster on a popular Internet forum? Unless said poster has been there for some time & has a reputation of accurately delivering predictions, announcements or news well ahead of them being made public or being "leaked" by others in the industry, then such a claim is worth next to nothing. A major issue is that a large section of BBC R5L's audience right now still listen to them via Medium Wave, particularly in vehicles that don't have DAB tuners in the head end - although this is slowly decreasing & is no longer an absolute majority of them. They may make an announcement in due course of closing down some of the low power MW TX sites (following the examples of Absolute Radio last year and Talk Sport's plans later this year) especially in places where the MW service area is otherwise well covered by DAB**, but a complete closedown of the whole 909/693/990 network without both a significant period of notice and if a notable amount of listeners still use the network - especially as R5L doesn't have full time FM coverage to fall back on, compared to BBC local radio stations - would likely lead to public complaints. I'd reckon that it'll definitely outlast Absolute going off MW entirely, and quite likely Talk Sport too - though again that will depending on how their audience listen to them, they have a similar profile to R5L IIRC. [SIZE=3]**Where I live, R5L reception from Enniskillen on 693 kHz is usually reliable 24/7, but neither Absolute or Talk Sport have ever transmitted from the same site (in the past BBC R3 was on 1197 kHz and BBC R1 on 1053 kHz) meaning that the best reception for them comes from Lisnagarvey (nr Belfast) about 75 miles away, but they (as well as R5L on 909 kHz from there) can be weakish during daytime, and at night they all suffer from fading & distortion from co-channel skywave from TXs in Britain - Absolute especially, even during daytime at this time of year. In terms of the Enniskillen MW service area for R5L, there are quite a few black spots in terms of coverage of the BBC National DAB ensemble. [/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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