Archive for October, 1999

Radio Luxembourg Revival

Looks like the great 208 will be making a return shortly…

Amazing news: the late lamented Radio Luxembourg is returning to medium wave 1440 kHz! Once the favorite station of pop music-starved listeners across Northern and Western Europe, the station closed in December, 1992, in an ill-fated early satellite experiment. CLT-UFA says the revived channel will have studios in both Luxembourg and London, and besides 1440 kHz, will also transmit via analog and digital satellite and via the Internet. The relaunch is scheduled for “early November”.

RTE World Service

Egad, RTE are on shortwave and no one told me!

Times of RTE’s shortwave transmissions of the “News at Six-Thirty” have been moved forward one hour to take account of summer time changes across the world. The bulletin is now broadcast on 12160 kHz at 18:30 UTC/GMT from Monday to Friday, 19:00 UTC/GMT on Saturday, and 20:00 UTC/GMT on Sunday (North and South America, Europe and Africa).