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Well BBC Radio 4 and all the other stations no longer list in SONOS or in TUNEIN. 

As of this morning (8 am EDT)  I have R4 set as an alarm and it worked yesterday and today not. 

BBC Sounds does not show up in services. 

NONE of the BBC stations show in SONOS Radio or in TUNEIN 

In the TUNEIN app on my iPhone to which I have a paid subscription 

BBC Radio 4 now shows the following message. 

    Regional Restrictions
    This station is not available in your region. 

Honestly this is so upsetting … 

BBC itself said that BBC RADIO 4 and WORLD SERVICE would be available TO ALL ANYWHERE.  And now they are taking it away ???

That is the article where they said that 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8j1m721mp2o
“The BBC has said its radio stations will continue to be available for people outside the UK to listen to live after BBC Sounds access is restricted for international listeners.
The BBC said listening to BBC audio programming on non-BBC platforms would not be affected by the change.”

There is nothing on the bbc.com website today about this new change.

I would think that SONOS with their millions of users would be able to exert some pressure on BBC to add at least allow BBC Radio 4 and World Service as those are available on the bbc.com website to anyone.  

I dont understand why the BBC is blocking EVERYTHING on SONOS and TUNEIN 

At least give us BBC R4 and WS. 

Just unbelievable and so upsetting This is a sad sad day.  I am utterly gutted

Answered here: 

 


Yes it is ridiculous- I don’t understand why they are actively reducing their audience. You can still listen live  via the dreadful bbc . Com app . if you go to Audio , audio FAQ’s it then lists all the stations at the bottom of the page. 
 

Losing BBC Sounds was very upsetting and this is yet another disappointment. The only option is to get a VPN 


UDPATE 

They were all back as of 5 pm Tuesday … must have been a programming error. 

All show now on TUNEIN and SONOS RADIO and all work as normal