5 Live will close its AM transmitter network by 2028, and BBC Radio 4 will cease its LW service as part of a digital-first plan announced by the BBC today.
challenge of the bbc faces. the licence fee has been frozen for two years in the bbc has to find big savings and obviously that happens mid cost of living crisis of the need to find £200 million of savings. the other big thing is a technological threat of the bbc is going to be around in ten or 15 years and needs a new generation to not just watch and years and needs a new generation to notjust watch and listen to the bbc but to pay for it so there is another £300 million being spent on new digital programming to try and appeal to let young audience but it does mean getting from here so they re some of the bbc s treasure programmes and services will changed. radio four extra and cvc which i m addicted to not by choice or because my children watch it four won t stop existing but they will become digital services, but with the three years time. radio four long wave. in some programmes, don t yet know which ones, don t no timescale and will be cut. bbc world news, global news channel th