Keep AM Alive

The campaign to maintain our radio heritage

Category: Sport

  • Ofcom encourages AM listening even as BBC longwave hangs by a thread

    Ofcom encourages AM listening even as BBC longwave hangs by a thread

    The UK’s media regulator has published an article on its website encouraging sports fans to use AM (which includes longwave) and FM radio. In a piece timed to coincide with the World Cup, Ofcom urges spectators to ‘keep up with play and avoid the delay’ by avoiding watching or listening…

  • Test Match no longer Special as Sport Leaves Longwave

    Test Match no longer Special as Sport Leaves Longwave

    Whatever the weather, one thing that remains a British summer stalwart is Test Match cricket, whether it’s played amidst the English showers or carried to our ears from far-flung parts of the cricketing world. But this summer, after sixty-seven years, for the first time Test Match Special is not available to…