ARLA/CLUSTER: BBC anuncia alterações nos seus serviços locais em Ondas Médias

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

Further changes to some BBC local radio medium wave services

*Kieran Clifton*
Director, BBC Distribution & Business Development

In my blog posted in the summer of 2017
<https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/entries/46b21269-723b-4cfd-b8f3-fc735d09d0a3>,
I explained the BBC’s plans for local radio and the reasons for the closure
of some of our medium wave transmitters - which happened in January last
year. This was the first stage of putting into action a plan that the BBC
originally announced in 2011. Starting in February 2020, and completing in
mid-2020, we will be moving on to the next stage of the plan, closing a
further 18 medium wave transmitters across England, Scotland and Wales.
There is a list of services affected at the end of this blog post.

My earlier blog post explained why we are closing some local medium wave
transmitters, but I wanted to recap again here. The majority of radio
listening in the UK - including to the BBC - is now digital, and digital
listening is continuing to grow. We want to make our services available to
you when and how you want them, but it’s also right that the BBC continues
to ensure that the ways we distribute our services represent good value for
money for you, the licence fee payer.

The BBC is committed to a digital future for radio, and in the past few
years we have funded local DAB expansion, made all local radio stations
available on digital terrestrial TV (such as Freeview), and we have
transformed our online and mobile offering with BBC Sounds.  Together with
FM (which has recently been expanded for Radio Wales), these ways of
receiving our stations now make up the great majority of listening, and as
a result continuing to transmit these services on medium wave would no
longer represent good value for money.

This change was planned as long ago as 2011, but we have taken a measured
approach to implementing it to ensure that as many of you as possible have
already moved on to other ways of receiving the services before we make
this change.  We know that the changes will impact some of you, and that’s
why we’re speaking about the plans again now. We want to make sure that
people listening to these transmissions will be able to use other methods
to hear the same programmes

.All stations which will be affected will continue to be on FM and digital
outputs (such as DAB, digital television, or online). For most people,
re-tuning their radios or cars to FM or DAB is likely to be the simplest
solution.You can use our Problem Assistant tool
<https://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/> to get more information on how to access
all BBC services in your area.The stations which will no longer be
transmitted on MW are:

   - Three Counties Radio (3CR)Radio MerseysideRadio NewcastleRadio Solent
   (for Dorset)Radio SolentRadio Cornwall
   - Radio York

In addition, the following stations will have reduced MW coverage:*Radio
Scotland*

   - Areas in and around both Aberdeen and Kirkcudbright

*Radio Wales*

   - Tywyn, Forden and Llandrindod Wells transmitter areas

*Radio Cumbria*

   - Areas in and around Whitehaven

*Radio Norfolk*

   - Areas in and around Norwich

https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/entries/8bda7cd8-fdf8-41f5-8f3c-212cf5f7c86f

*•* Our thanks to *Mike Terry* for the above information
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