BBC Relay Station Seychelles Closes.

[Tedzed1]

One more outlet for the BBC world service is to close

http://www.seychellesnewsagency.com/arti...Seychelles

[Nick]

...but you can see why, and I really admire the plans for the re-purposing of all the equipment and land. Very good & well thought out handover...

[ed731pdh]

Just waiting for the upcoming technological crunch, and we'll all be sending in morse.

[Mike Watterson]

Very sad.
I can't help thinking that a lot of LW, MW, SW closures are driven by a false sense of efficacy of Satellite, Internet and local FM or even DAB Radio.
All of those can be blocked by a censorious government.
Many of those are not as universal coverage as AM, nor as long life battery for listeners in a disaster or portable.

[Mike Watterson]

Since I last looked at this topic:
May 2021: The Official Irish DAB service closed. Since then two non-RTE stations have joined "Terrestrial Digital Radio", Radio Maria and UCB. RTE has a few extra Digital only stations. Terrestrial Digital Radio is still on DTT which has better coverage than Analogue TV had (which was on Band III in some areas as well as UHF, the last Band I 625 closed in 1999).
BBC has restarted some Shortwave AM World Service.
Five Live is still on MW due to lack of DAB coverage
R4 is still on LW due to lack of FM & DAB coverage.
DAB in UK is still less coverage than FM.


Satellite and Internet are complementary to Terrestrial Broadcast. FM and DAB only does local or main National. No use for International nor complete National coverage.