[Stooky Bill]

I had no idea how much history 1215 AM had. Even more poignant to see it go.

I've seen people being anal and pointing out it was 1214 until 1978, as if 1kHz makes a difference.

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And Radio 4 LW must have a very low listenership these days given they're on FM too. I can't be the only one who doesn't even have a radio capable of picking up LW anymore.

I wonder how many listeners it has from outside the UK (admittedly not within the BBC's remit), or indeed on boats, which is the reason why they have the shipping forecast (and why the shipping forecast was on the Light Programme/Radio 2 when they were on Longwave before 1978).

Ships have better ways of finding out the weather forecast these days, the shipping forecast itself is mostly obsolete. 

There's 3 real reasons 198 LW still exists - switching electricity meters, the shipping forecast and British people abroad who want to listen to Radio 4. 

The first one is the only thing that's keeping it going and that doesn't actually need to have any radio broadcast alongside it. The equivalent French system stopped broadcasting a few years ago but kept the data transmission