The cricket has been on Radio Five Live Sports Extra since at least 2005, in 
addition to Radio 4 Long Wave. 

During the cricket, they still announce cutaways for the Shipping Forecast 
(much to the amusement of the foreign commentators), but only Radio 4 LW 
actually cuts away. 

John 

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> On May 26, 2022, at 10:07 PM, Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> And it turns out "The Thick of It" went from Four to Two for its third season.
> 
> Turns out that it's Radio 4 Extra, the DAB band drama/comedy library station, 
> that's moving to streaming.  The mainline Radio 4 is going to close up its 
> long wave frequency as soon as it can find new homes for the long wave-only 
> programming (church services, coverage of those marathon cricket matches, 
> some broadcasts of the beloved shipping forecast, although there would be a 
> lot of complaints if the nightly 12:50 a.m. broadcasts on the mainline R4 are 
> even taken off, complete with the lead-in music of that stock library piece 
> "Sailing By").  I suspect the cricket would go to the DAB station Five Live 
> Sports Extra.
> 
> Mark Jeffries
> [email protected]
> 
> 
>> On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 7:07 PM Brad Beam <[email protected]> wrote:
>> “Fleabag” went from Three to One for its second series although, per Wiki, 
>> by that time Three was concurrently streaming it.
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
>> Behalf Of Mark Jeffries
>> 
>> 
>> >Adam, considering that a show moving from BBC Two to BBC One was once 
>> >considered the symbol of mass appeal, have any shows other than the 
>> >difficult game show "Only Connect" moved from Three or Four to Two or even 
>> >One?
>> 
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