RTÉ director general Dee Forbes said the broadcaster can 'no longer justify' investment in the long wave transmitter.
The LW 252 service caried RTÉ Radio 1 to listeners across the island of Ireland and also into Britain.
She added that considerable investment had been placed in prolonging the life of the transmitter and that the “time has come to bring the long wave service to a close”. The second factor was the investment that would be needed to maintain a service that caters to a “greatly reduced number of listeners”, as well as the “inaccessibility of longwave radio on newer devices”.
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