RTL Radio

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RTL Radio

Feel Good Music von den 80ern bis heute
Germany
Broadcast area	Germany Luxembourg
Frequencies	FM: 97.0 MHz (Northern Luxembourg) DAB+: Various (Germany and Luxembourg) Astra: 12,604 GHz
RDS	RTLRADIO
Programming
Language	German
Format	Hot adult contemporary (since 1 July 2015)
Ownership
Owner	RTL Group
Sister stations	89.0 RTL 104.6 RTL Toggo Radio
History
First air date	15 July 1957; 69 years ago (1957-07-15)
Former names	Radio Luxemburg (1957–1988) RTL Hörfunk (1988–1990) RTL – Der Oldiesender (1992–1996)
Former frequencies	AM: 1439/1440 kHz (until 31 December 2015) Shortwave: 6090 kHz
Links
Website	Listen live

RTL Radio Germany is the biggest commerical Radio-Industrie group in Germany, Luxemburg, Portugal, France and Belgium. It is based in Berlin and part of the RTL Group.

RTL Radio Deutschland has stakes in almost 29 stations in Germany, including 104.6 RTL in Berlin, Antenne Niedersachsen and Radio Hamburg.

The largest station of the network is RTL Radio, which originated as the German language service of Radio Luxembourg, which began broadcasting after World War II from Luxembourg. It broadcasts adult contemporary music nationally via cable, DAB+, satellite, internet and regionally via FM in Luxembourg, Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland, eastern German-speaking Belgium, and Lorraine.

RTL radio

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 City of Luxembourg to Berlin.

In June 2026 the radiostation changed name and format into RTL Radio and now Broadcast feel good music.

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

Radio stations of RTL Group

References

External links

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

• "Homepage of RTL Radio" (in German). RTL.
• "Homepage of RTL Radio for Luxembourg" (in Luxembourgish). RTL Lëtzebuerg.
• History of the German service of Radio Luxemburg Archived 6 May 2001 at the Wayback Machine (in German)