What was radio luxembourg

Part of the broadcasting on medium wave is also occupied by a programme in Dutch and Luxembourgish. The success of Radio Luxembourg grows day by day.

The management of CLR enters into a new era of broadcasting: television. Sponsorship now switches mainly to record companies such as Decca and EMI. The kW medium wave transmitter — relocated from Junglinster to Marnach to provide a better reception in England and Scandinavia — goes into service. Radio Caroline, the first of several British pirate offshore radio stations, starts broadcasting from a ship. These pirate stations, broadcasting mainly rock and pop music, are major competitors to Radio Luxembourg.

In June, Radio Luxembourg and the magazine Fabulous link up. The magazine Fabulous is born. The Marine Broadcasting Offences Act outlaws pirate offshore stations, although some unlicensed radio stations continue broadcasting. To counter the popularity of these illegal broadcasters and the ongoing success of Radio Luxembourg, the BBC is restructured, establishing Radio 1, Radio 2, Radio 3 and Radio 4. Radio Luxembourg changes its format, shifting from sponsored pre-recorded programmes to an all-live format with commercial breaks.

Powerful long-wave transmitters go into service at the Beidweiler site. The Junglinster transmitters are used as back-up. Licences for independent local commercial radio stations are awarded by the British broadcasting authorities. The station broadcasts from Trim in the Republic of Ireland.

CLT continues to expand into new countries, setting up a complementary network of TV channels and radio stations and thus beginning to create families of channels. John N. The construction of the transmitter site in Junglinster began soon after. Radio Luxembourg made its first long wave broadcast on 15 March in French and German, using the most powerful kW transmitter in Europe: the newly built site in Junglinster.

Stephen Williams was the first British presenter to move to Luxembourg. Prince Felix of Luxembourg lays the first stone of the transmitter in Junglister. Broadcasting centre in Junglinster. Advertising revenue was in decline for the British Broadcasting Corporation, with company's moving their bought airtime to Luxembourg.

As a result, the BBC teamed up with the postal service to prevent British advertisers from accessing Luxembourg by landline. The CLR was unimpressed, and came up wth an alternative solution: let the ads be recorded in London, and then fly them over to Luxembourg on a weekly basis with Thomas Cook. This service attracted some of Britain's largest advertising companies to Radio Luxembourg, to the disgust of the BBC. Their plan had clearly not worked. On top of that came the fact that Christopher Stone joined commercial station Radio Luxembourg in September of , a stab in the back for the BCC who consequently blacklisted him for his collaboration with the radio station.

Four million British listeners tuned in to Radio Luxembourg in A De Havilland Dragon airplane, christined "The Luxembourg Listener", was flying twice a week between Croydon and Esch-sur-Alzette carrying taped programmes, records and passengers. Decktician, who made the track listings featured below, says:. I remember being quite shocked at open references to his previous dabbling in drugs, for example. Sometimes he'd talk away for mins at a time. Currently there is only one full show available from 03 June Radio Luxembourg online.

In December , a cache of historic tracklistings from Peel's show on Radio Luxembourg became available as part of the Decktician Logs project of the Peel Mailing List , covering what appears to be a continuous six-month period from January Please see the following pages:.

John Peel Wiki Explore. John Peel Show. Other Shows. Other Peel. Lists Places Films. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? The station provided a way to circumvent British legislation which until gave the BBC a monopoly of radio broadcasting on UK territory and prohibited all forms of advertising over the domestic radio spectrum.

It boasted the most powerful privately owned transmitter in the world 1, kW, broadcasting on medium wave. In the late s, and again in the s and s, it had large audiences in Britain and Ireland with its programmes of popular entertainment, and was an important forerunner of pirate radio and modern commercial radio in the United Kingdom.