RTL Radio

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RTL Radio is a German commercial radio station based in

RTL Radio began broadcasting as the German service of Radio Luxembourg on 15 July 1957. Along with the Saarland-based pirate radio Europe 1, Luxembourg interfered with the non-commercial monopoly imposed by the German states since broadcasting first started in the country. Apart from advertising reaching German radios for the first time, RTL also introduced Germans from both East and West to rock-and-roll, bebop/cool jazz and other types of American popular music which contrasted to the classical repertoire that had dominated mainland services.

In 1988, Radio Luxembourg was renamed RTL Hörfunk. On 1 July 2015 RTL Radio branded itself RTL Radio – Deutschlands Hit-Radio and moved its studios from the

RTL Radio has slots on analog and digital cable, and transmits digital signals via the Astra 1L satellites.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to RTL – Deutschlands Hit-Radio.

• Homepage of RTL Radio (in German)
• Homepage of RTL Radio for Luxembourg Archived 22 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine (in German)
• History of the German service of Radio Luxemburg (in German)