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By Alex Lennane
UK and BBC World Service listeners will know the dulcet tones and soporific nature of The Shipping Forecast. (If you don’t know it, go a couple of minutes in, here.) But new technology is threatening its reception on long-wave radio. However, the advent of digitisation means no one is making transmitters for long-wave any more. The BBC apparently bought up the entire last stock ? but there are no more. Why does this matter? Because on FM, broadcasts don’t reach ...
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