Millions of listeners with digital radios will soon no longer be able to tune in to popular stations including Classic FM.
Major channels are abandoning older Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) radios in favour of new DAB+ technology – forcing listeners to buy a more modern radio.
It comes after many listeners were pushed to switch to digital radio after the Government announced ambitions to turn off the FM signal in 2015.
This will now not happen until at least 2030, but many digital radio models are now becoming obsolete as they can only pick up the DAB signal, and not the superior DAB+.
Classic FM, which has around 4.5 million listeners, is the among the popular stations to announce it will switch over to DAB+.
Nearly 50m adults, or 88pc of those aged over 15, listened to their favourite radio station at least once a week, according to figures from…
