Group    From 1933  To 30/12/1991

Radio Luxembourg

Categories: Music / songs, TV & Radio

Countries: Luxembourg

Radio Luxembourg was a multilingual commercial broadcaster in Luxembourg. The English-language service of Radio Luxembourg began in 1933 as one of the earliest commercial radio stations broadcasting to the UK and Ireland. The station provided a way to circumvent British legislation which until 1973 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. In the late 1930s, and again in the 1950s and 1960s, 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 UK.

It broadcast on 208 metres medium wave which, for technical reasons, was only possible after dusk, so it was an evening station. For anyone who listened to the station "Keynsham, spelt K-E-Y-N-S-H-A-M" and the Ovaltineys song will generate waves of nostalgia.

We have removed the image of one of the DJs from this montage because he is best forgotten.

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