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Originally Posted by Ian - G4JQT
Obviously a few hundred of us vintage radio aficionados won't be a reason to keep MW transmitters operating when there are tens if not hundreds of thousands of older people who only have (or only know how to use) their old MW radio. The BBC no doubt known about them, but they don't figure in the calculations.
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This assumption about older folk is for the most part erroneous. Many that I know had DAB receivers and freeview TV boxes before the commonplace use of DAB and before TV DSO in the quest for something different from the usual fare.
Those that will miss MW are those who live in awkward places where FM and DAB reception is difficult but they are probably few in number. A shame for them but that’s how things go. Unfortunately, some of them will probably live in places where gaining a 1MB internet connection remains something of a dream.
However, given that BBC local radio was the last bastion for the older listener and that is changing given the BBC’s determination to chase the youth audience, they probably won’t miss it much anyway.