Nice to have a recording of the last broadcast of RTE Radio 1 I listen to the station here in the south west of England where reception is quite good in the daytime till about 7pm when Algeria kicks in. Shame there was no whistles or bells to let listeners to know what was happening.
Independent broadcaster - Absolute Radio do a small goodbye programme based on the history of 1215KHz including bits from the BBC Light Programme and Radio 1. State owned broadcaster RTE - nothing, just go direct to a loop telling everybody to retune. Make no wonder nobody is listening to the service anymore. I suppose when 198 KHz goes they will just turn off the transmitter without any comments.
RTE made a big deal of their MW closure in 2008 and ran a farewell programme as they had been broadcasting on MW since the 1920s. They were only on LW since 2004 so it didn't really have the same historical significance.
But this was the legend Atlantic 252 miss that station 😢
Next news at one!
Thank you for preserving for posterity.
Nice to have a recording of the last broadcast of RTE Radio 1 I listen to the station here in the south west of England where reception is quite good in the daytime till about 7pm when Algeria kicks in. Shame there was no whistles or bells to let listeners to know what was happening.
Rte radio was great on long wave mist it. From kieran from Keady Co armagh rte great radio station hart to get fm in Keady Co armagh in my house
Independent broadcaster - Absolute Radio do a small goodbye programme based on the history of 1215KHz including bits from the BBC Light Programme and Radio 1.
State owned broadcaster RTE - nothing, just go direct to a loop telling everybody to retune. Make no wonder nobody is listening to the service anymore.
I suppose when 198 KHz goes they will just turn off the transmitter without any comments.
RTE made a big deal of their MW closure in 2008 and ran a farewell programme as they had been broadcasting on MW since the 1920s. They were only on LW since 2004 so it didn't really have the same historical significance.