The BBC is discontinuing its oldest service, Radio 4 on longwave, which has been broadcasting for 92 years from two steel masts in Droitwich, central England. This move ends a technology used for nearly a century, though few in the UK are expected to notice its disappearance, marking the first step in BBC's plan to phase out longwave.

The British broadcaster BBC will cease its analog longwave radio program transmissions, citing financial and technical reasons for discontinuing BBC Radio 4 on 198 kHz.