50 Years of Radio Luxembourg - Historic Broadcast from December, 1983

In December 1983, RTL (as it was known for a while) produced a special for its 50th anniversary of broadcasting. It was hosted by longtime jock Noel Edmonds. Listen now as we bring you back 30 years, to celebrate the previous 50 years on Radio Luxembourg – a remarkable station that no longer exists as an over the air entity. This is the story of a European broadcasting legend. The Great 208, they called it. 208, because as was customary in Europe, radio stations identified by the wavelength of the station’s frequency. 208 comes out to approximately 1440 kHz. Radio Luxembourg was on 15.350 Mhz shortwave during the time I, your webmaster discovered it, but prior to 1983 the station only broadcast on medium wave. At 1,300 KW of output power, it was considered the most powerful commercial station ever! This post is written from an American perspective, so, perhaps it’s difficult to realize the enormous impact which Radio Luxembourg had on Great Britain. There are pages and pages – in fact, a whole website or two dedicated to the history of Luxembourg, in addition to assorted airchecks of the station which reside in various places throughout the web. Perhaps the American station with the closest history, between controversy and high power, would be Powell Croseley’s WLW Cincinnati. But even WLW never got close to a station putting out ONE MILLION, 3 HUNDRED THOUSAND WATTS!! Radio Luxembourg did. And its influence was far and wide. This aircheck is available as originally posted at Airchexx.com. Simply copy and paste the following link into your web browser. https://airchexx.com/radio-luxembourg...