Final Years of Operation
648 kHz: Following cuts in the BBC World Service budget, its transmissions in English on 648 from Orfordness ceased at 0000 GMT/UTC on 27 March 2011.
The 648 channel came back on the air in August and September 2011 as a temporary measure for the Dutch domestic news/information network Radio 1. This was broadcast from Orfordness following fires at the Lopik and Hoogersmilde FM transmitting sites in the Netherlands on 15 July 2011.
1296 kHz: In 2001, the Dutch station Radio Nationaal hired the use of 1296 to beam its signal back to the target audience in the Netherlands and Belgium.
In 2008, an EU-funded programme in English, Network Europe, was aired on 1296 for half-an-hour a day.
Between 2003 and 2012, BBC World Service used Orfordness on 1296 kHz at limited times of the day for transmissions using the DRM digital radio system.
Radio Netherlands hired 1296 at other times of the day for analogue broadcasts in Dutch.
The final transmission from Orfordness (on either frequency) was a farewell 24-hour broadcast by Radio Netherlands on 10-11 May 2012, marking the end of its Dutch service.
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