The BBC ends longwave radio service today

According to Boing Boing, the BBC has ended its longwave radio service today—the final broadcast on a technology that carried voices across continents for nearly a century. Longwave radio once graced radio dials with distant place names like Warsaw, Droitwich, and Nador, creating a sense that entire worlds were just a dial turn away. The service has become obsolete in the age of streaming and digital radio, leaving only nostalgia for frequencies that once felt magical.

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