BBC Radio Abroad

[15isto2]

BBC sounds app/website will be geolocked to UK only from Spring this year.

"As part of this launch, the BBC will also be making BBC Sounds available exclusively to UK audiences and ending access to the service for international users beginning Spring 2025. UK users who go on holiday (outside the UK) for a short period of time will still be able to use the BBC Sounds app abroad."

BBC Studios to make podcasts available to international audiences via BBC.com and the BBC App

Newly launched audio section will make the BBC’s vast portfolio of current and archived podcasts easier to find

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[David and Sally]

I use BBC Sounds on my iPad linked to my UK phones sim.

Presumably the BBC will think I am in the UK?

 

[15isto2]

I use BBC Sounds on my iPad linked to my UK phones sim.

Presumably the BBC will think I am in the UK?

I am not sure. I know when I have been abroad using my iphone even with a VPN set to the UK (that worked for Iplayer) that sounds app knew I was not in the UK

 

[Jewellbags]

Switch your location services off ?

 

[The Old Man]

All this modern access and options however back in time I was fortunate to work overseas often in strange places with no such thing as a mobile phone or Internet and when a phone call home needed to be booked days in advance.

My lifeline was a small;

And to hear those few words, "This Is London;"

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[15isto2]

All this modern access and options however back in time I was fortunate to work overseas often in strange places with no such thing as a mobile phone or Internet and when a phone call home needed to be booked days in advance.

My lifeline was a small;

And to hear those few words, "This Is London;"

I do always have the urge to play Lilliburlero whenever I cross a border

 

[Peavy]

All this modern access and options however back in time I was fortunate to work overseas often in strange places with no such thing as a mobile phone or Internet and when a phone call home needed to be booked days in advance.

My lifeline was a small;

And to hear those few words, "This Is London;"

Good old AM When I was a kid I searched for international AM radio in my old Radiola cassette player.

 

[Mike800966]

I do just wonder how many people have radios, portable or otherwise, which receive BBC R4 on long wave (198metres).
I think it still emanates from Droitwich. I understand the transmitter valves are irreplaceable and towards end of life. However it is still used for Economy 7 electricity meters?? So until they all move over and become Smart it has a time extension.
The ground wave seemed to cover France but I well remember listening to R4 PM at 1700 in Portugal until about 1745 then the skywave would fade so you always lost the Six o'clock News.
Happy days!
Mike

 

[billym]

They've just been on about this on radio 4.
An awful lot of people will not be happy if their VPN doesn't work. Me included.

They say it will start early spring this year but have not issued the date.

 

[15isto2]

I do just wonder how many people have radios, portable or otherwise, which receive BBC R4 on long wave (198metres).
I think it still emanates from Droitwich. I understand the transmitter valves are irreplaceable and towards end of life. However it is still used for Economy 7 electricity meters?? So until they all move over and become Smart it has a time extension.
The ground wave seemed to cover France but I well remember listening to R4 PM at 1700 in Portugal until about 1745 then the skywave would fade so you always lost the Six o'clock News.
Happy days!
Mike

Odd coincidence is I have seen a news article saying the old "radio controled" ecomomy 7 meters are being turned off on 30th June!

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[kev54]

I do just wonder how many people have radios, portable or otherwise, which receive BBC R4 on long wave (198metres).
I think it still emanates from Droitwich. I understand the transmitter valves are irreplaceable and towards end of life. However it is still used for Economy 7 electricity meters?? So until they all move over and become Smart it has a time extension.
The ground wave seemed to cover France but I well remember listening to R4 PM at 1700 in Portugal until about 1745 then the skywave would fade so you always lost the Six o'clock News.
Happy days!
Mike

Still going, but the ‘end of the teleswitch’ is supposed to be coming ‘very soon’ in 2025.
This info from wikipedia - Radio Teleswitch Service [which shifts the old electric meters to and from Economy 7] is broadcast alongside the longwave output of BBC Radio 4from the Droitwich Transmitting Station.

In October 2011, the BBC stated that the Droitwich transmitter, including Radio 4's longwave service and Radio Teleswitch, will cease to operate when one of the last two valves breaks, and no effort would be made to manufacture more nor to install a replacement longwave transmitter.

The BBC stated that their plan is simply to cease broadcasting on longwave forever once the Droitwich transmitter fails.

 

[kev54]

BBC sounds app/website will be geolocked to UK only from Spring this year.

"As part of this launch, the BBC will also be making BBC Sounds available exclusively to UK audiences and ending access to the service for international users beginning Spring 2025. UK users who go on holiday (outside the UK) for a short period of time will still be able to use the BBC Sounds app abroad."

BBC Studios to make podcasts available to international audiences via BBC.com and the BBC App

Newly launched audio section will make the BBC’s vast portfolio of current and archived podcasts easier to find

www.bbc.co.uk

How short is a ‘short period of time’ ? How will we cope without Petroc Trelawny in the morning and Sarah Mohr-Pietsch at night? No, I’m serious! I do hope my VPN will fix it