Unforgettable radio station ! In the 80's I used to listen RTL 208 every evening from 8PM until 3AM in the morning. Super music, incredible jingles, famous dj's...all was great on Radio Luxembourg ! I listened it on 1440 Khz MW with its so particular sound and fading effect, in France and also in Germany, Denmark, and Sweden. How can died such a popular broadcasting program with millions of listeners everywhere in Europe !?... However thanks for all .
I used to listened Radio Luxemburg in Slovakia. In years 1962-1966 I studied on high school and every evening after studying I had a good time with this radio.
When radio rocked fell asleep many a night as a child with my little battery transister radio tuned to the great 208 fading in and out as the night wore on 7PM till 3am nightly absolutely the best ever radio station that lived thanks for keeping me company and entertaining me late night luxy rocked
God bless you all at Radio Luxembourg! We heard you on the east. Whishing you God's blessing and Peace. Good night and good morning where ever you may be.
Здравствуйте друзья, слушал эту радиостанцию на средних волнах(LW) во время службы в Советской Армии в 1980-1982 годах. У меня был маленький приёмник ,которым нельзя было пользоваться по уставу Армии. Но мне удавалось послушать эту станцию в Ленинградской области в городе Великий Новгород (Новгород). Вот это был КАЙФ!
yeah...Luxembourg. I started listening in 1971. when living in USSR. That was main source of fresh music. Often fell asleep with my radio on my chest .
Nothing has come anywhere near this station, used to listen to it in the 70s and 80s, remember Olly Henry and Rob Jones, even the fading in and out was great, we lived through some great times, miss it so much RIP. 208 1440
On écoutait cette station la nuit(on ne pouvait la capter que la nuit) au fond du jardin avec les premiers transistors,pour entendre les tubes anglo-saxon avec quelques semaines d'avance sur SLC.Quel bonheur!!.Une autre époque
radio Luxemburg is and remains the best I have listened to. the music was so good, whether it was one or two months of pop music before it came to Sweden, it was always fun to listen to, when you could get Radio Luxemburg all the time. before the broadcasts from Radio Luxemburg, it was Italy's radio broadcast where the hunt for the mafia was heard, then Radio Luxembourg started and everything was broadcast in the mid-frequency area and low wave. history of radio Luxembourg began in the 1930s and onwards. radio Luxemburg is also the only radio station that was occupied by the English and American ss-waffen during World War II. the feature in the media and advertising from radio luxembourg and the music and those who worked at radio luxembourg did a very good job and made it fun to listen to despite the interference to hear from radio luxembourg, i was always happy to hear from radio luxembourg every once, always. when Radio Luxemburg was shut down, it didn't feel fun, it became empty and quiet. I look back and you miss Radio Luxemburg every day, a radio station that is missed. even with one from Sweden who is fighting hard to get Radio Luxemburg in the hood. radio Luxembourg is missing forever.
hi Bob! i spent many nights listening RL until the close minutes! More than 25 years. But many times i got asleep and i was waken up by your voice that i'll never forget! Thanks fot it!!!
I listened to "Radio Lux" as we called it , during my Army service from 1965 to 1967. It was late night listening while on guard Duty , Nurnberg Germany. Radio was the best then!
В БЪЛГАРИЯ СЕ СЛУШАШЕ СРАВНИТЕЛНО ДОБРЕ,ВЪПРЕКИ РУСКОТО РАДИО НА СЪЩАТА ЧЕСТОТА,БЛАГОДАРИМ ВИ,THANK YOU,,LUCKY LUXEMBOURG" FOR THE GREAT MEMORIES!!!😍✌️👍
LOVED this station! Still really miss it big time, won a Sony Walkman on it and used to call in and be on the Radio. Bob Stewart was fab! Once an hour power play!
I was in Ireland during August of 1972 and I used to hear this when I stayed up at my aunt Kitty and Uncle Doney's house. This was a great radio station to listen to when you were staying up late in the Emerald Isle, and, indeed all over Europe!
!!!!!! Super radio station pocuvana mnohymi fanusikmi popu najma v 70 rokoch z Ceskoslovenska,noc co noc i mnou samym. Konecne po styridsiatich rokoch som mohol nazivo zaspominat pri znelkach radia Luxembourg.Vdaka vsetkym tym z radia Laxik.
Petrik Fuzo mam rovnake spomienky na laxik, koniec 60-tych a cele 70-te roky, na strednych vlnach, obcas to unikalo, prlelinalo sa to sumami, ale bola to supa, pocuvat najnovsie hity, najradsej som mal international brief kontakte o 19.00 do 19.30
I used to fall asleep to BIGL every night when I lived in England, 1976--77 ... then I had to leave Britain and go back to the States, and my life has been crap ever since ... so nice to have at least one warm fuzzy memory!
I remember the summer of 1990, the week I was looking for this famous radio station I had the time I was a holiday but no one in my circle of family or friends did not know exactly where to look for the radio. Commonly known was just a name and they listened to what was once just do not remember the details. It was only after a week I found information that Radio Luxembourg broadcasts on medium wave in 1500. Finally, the case before midnight came and I immediately knew that this is it! Really for me it was something incredible. Music buzzy, quality of sound, dj led in English .... Unfortunately, during the day it means not broadcast station emit normal radio program in German. Very often around 21.00 listened though I had bad reception. Then I did not have any information why the station just disappeared. There was no internet, satellite TV in its infancy .. After years until I learned everything and still can not understand how you can eliminate such an amazing radio station. Nowadays, I am convinced that such a radio would bring a lot of money because of the time despite all the technical innovations have not heard...
Radio Luxembourg thought that by discontinuing 208 metres MW 29th December 1991 for an Astra Satellite only future across Europe and 24h a day Shortwave transmission to Canada on 15350 kHz / 19.50 metres, that it could survive, however, they were wrong. Later in the year, CLT management all from banking and business fields started moving in and replacing RTL management, and they turned the spotlight on all of RTL's radio projects and reviewing them, and they wanted to charge each language department to hire the AM FM and SW transmitters. John Catlett who started up Atlantic 252 for the CLT in Ireland tried to advertise the station through a coupon in various broadcast trade magazines in a bid to try and get satellite radio stations, CATV networks across Europe and in the United Kingdom, and partner FM stations the UK and Europe / student radio stations and hospital radio in the UK to carry Radio Luxembourg from Astra, but response to this was very poor and at the time CLT didn't know how many were listening to the Radio Luxembourg service on Astra, and this is what they questioned, "how many are actually listening to us on Astra in Europe and in the United Kingdom?". Faced with this lack of listenership and poor response to the advertising campaign, CLT decided in September 1992 that they would no longer broadcast the English Service via Astra 1A satellite relay in stereo and shortwave and decided on a date of the 30th September 1992 to close it for good. From 1am UK to midnight UK on the 30th December 1992, Radio Luxembourg broadcast it's final day hurrah with 208 metres MW joining the fun from 7pm UK and at 12 midnight UK, Radio Luxembourg faded away with a German RTL Radio taking it's place. Today there's loads of commercial radio in Europe and the UK but NONE of them sound like Radio Luxembourg, or if they do, are a very feeble mediocre parady of the station we once loved and cherished. Radio Luxembourg 1933-1992 R.I.P. Don't ask about the relaunch of a Classic Rock Luxembourg on Digital Radio Mondiale technology via SW transmitters with a directional UK only beam - that was a total disaster : lack of receivers, frequent technical problems with the transmitters, and poor reception in the UK,. That feeble Luxy parody was forgettable at best.
Nikolai Kozlov Согласен! Слушал эту станцию в 1981-1982 годах во время службы в СА на Аэродроме "Кречевицы" под В.Ногородом.По ночам на радиоприемник Кварц ,средние волны.
А я в Армии слушал, когда проходил службу в ГСВГ 79\81. Причём уровень лошадиный,ловился на любой приёмник от Альпиниста, Кварц,Гиала...до Риги-103, Океан-209...
Hi Bob! I hope you'll read my comment. I've been listening RL for more than 25 years almost each night. I first knew about it from my neighbour Georgi Zanev who had recorded each transmission of RL since the early 50's. Later he went to Vienna and he was a music conductor there. Many times i was awaken up by your voice that i'll never forget! Many thanks for it and I wish you will bring many happy hours for us again!
The man who was responsible for those early jingles of Radio Lux in the 1960s through the 1990s Ben Freedman just passed away a few weeks ago in Dallas, TX
76 77 78... oh...wonderfull years whit radio luxembourg......i remember stay my house hours and hours listen sing.......i mis you all the days of my life.......
A group of us used hang around a friend's car in Ireland in the late 50's waiting for sunset and after that picking up the 208 signal.Great excitement for us all!
Hii Steven Gilbert and friends. I used to listen to Radio Luxemburg, from Spain, in the 60s and 70s. There was a beautiful song in which a flute sounded very softly and very sweetly. That song was a success of those decades, maybe 1970? I do not know English and I have never known who played this song. Please anyone of you remember this song? Can anyone help me by telling me who sang this beautiful melody? Many thanks.
The voice of Luxy the great Bob Stewart much missed, In the early 70s there were just 2 pop stations Luxy & Radio 1....Mike Read, Steve Wright, Andy Peebles, David 'Kid' Jensen, Peter Powell, Paul Burnett were all at Big L & then moved to the BBC, 208 was a breeding ground for very good Disc Jockey's now you don't hear the full title nowadays
in the fiftty,s this was the radio station to fall asleep to the batterys on my radio always ran out of power as no way for automatic turn off back then in the morning woke up to a hissing sound back in belfast n ireland in those days now living canada that the type of radio station we need in canada today thomas r,
C'est vrai qu'on l'écoutait dans le jardin. Pour ne pas agacer les parents. Ce n'était pas tellement la musique qui les gênait mais le fading. J'avais tendu un fil de cuivre de 52 mètres pour améliorer la réception mais ce n'était quand même pas fameux. Mais on l'écoutait aussi en Néerlandais, le dimanche à midi. Ils avaient un fameux DJ : Peter Koelewijn. Puis en Allemand, "Die großen Acht" avec Camillo. Ces gens de Luxemburg 208 avaient inventé un style de radio. Même la pub était écoutable.
They learned all other how to make excellent and attractive radio programming. Unfortunately those times of enthusiasm and quality are gone. I also listened RL vial transistor under my pillow :)
The rot first set in when Medium Wave 1440 kHz was given the shove, the adverts were pulled and the DJs contracts were not renewed end of 1991 which was Mistake No 1. Mistake No 2 was advertising the station in a broadcast journal to anyone who wanted to rebroadcast it and failing. Mistake No 3 was depending on Astra satellite distribution and via low power SW transmission to Quebec in Canada at a power of 50kW using 15350 kHz / 19.50 metres in the 19 metre band.
I agree with you there. They made the biggest mistake pulling it off AM. If it had moved to another MW or LW frequency that would have been ok. Worst mistake ever was going to the astra satellite. Most people back in 91 and 92 did not even have satellite. We did not get our first satellite system until 1996. I do however think radio luxembourg would work nowadays on the internet radio so you could pick it up with a smart speaker.
@@owen671 Radio Luxembourg, set it up as RTL International, originally to target CATV systems in Scandinavia, but it got too much for them, as greedy cable operators wanted music royalty payments, which RTL declined to pay, so they turned it into a 24h Radio Luxembourg on Astra Satellite channel 13 RTL-4 11.391 GHz H partially scrambled Luxcrypt Stereo 7.38 / 7.56 MHz, and the reason why many cable TV system operators would not carry Radio Luxembourg from Astra 1A is because the encryption would knock out the audio on the vision carrier when it kicked in on certain programmes. To listen at home, it was a simple matter of connecting the stereo phono outputs of your satellite receiver with stereo phono leads to a spare input on your hi-fi, usually AUX or Line In and selecting Stereo 2 on your receiver. I would've used a stereo pair of sub-carriers on RTL Television Astra Channel 2 11.229 GHz V PAL Clear to make this a lot easier for cable systems to tune in and carry in stereo from the Astra 1A satellite to their subscribers and make it easier for direct to home Astra Satellite dish owners to receive and listen to. I would have also advertised the Radio Luxembourg satellite service on free to air UK and European Astra satellite TV and radio services too, to get instant recognition for it. The reason RTL got rid of 1440 kHz Medium Wave end of 1991 is because of the fading and unpleasant distortion, which was a big turn-off to advertisers, not to mention the half a million pounds cost of hiring the transmitter and paying a colossal hefty energy bill that outlet consumed, also the intern between RTL and CLT to hire that frequency was at an end too. I would have also carried Radio Luxembourg at night over the Atlantic 252 LW service after 7pm and modified the transmitter to give an omnidirectional beam pattern to Ireland, the UK and continental Europe keeping the same 500 kW power at night, and said "stuff Algeriia".....…. I would've also explored other avenues to being in revenue - (a) looked at advertising being available in European languages throughout Astra 1A's footprint to advertisers, (b) buy in paid for programming such as religious programmes from time to time, and (c) hire airtime to organisations on 15350 kHz SW to bring in some additional cash as well plus broadcasting sponsored programmes.
@@anthonyperkins7556 Thank you for letting me know why they quit MW . Back in 1991-92 It just was just not practical to use Astra satellite for radio as it just was too much trouble for most people to have to listen too it this way. People wanted an easy way to listen too it and not to have to invest in an expensive satellite system. Back then we all just switched over to atlantic 252 instead. I do agree with you that they should have just moved Luxembourg over to LW 252 I still listen to many far off radio stations on my smart speaker The main question I would like to ask you is do you think radio Luxembourg would work today on internet radio if the English service came back? (This would be for alexa and google home smart speakers)
@@owen671 Internet would be interesting, but not all areas of the UK have decent broadband connections or mobile phone reception for these devices, and I still think satellite should be an option i.e. in stereo on a Pan European beam using Astra 2G as it has the biggest Pan European beam @ 28.2 degrees East through Sky / Freesat as it's affordable now and not the expensive gamble it was back in the day plus I'd talk to Virgin Media about carrying this satellite feed in the UK via the cable system they have, and partner radio stations across Europe as well as cable systems in reach of the footprint around Europe on their programme service, and I'd look into additionally carrying a DAB+ stereo feed from the Astra 2 outlet through the Sound Digital Limited (SDL) multiplex from the satellite across the UK. Satellite radio from Astra's launch in 1989 did exist and was indeed carried on some cable systems in the UK and Europe, and some did make the effort to listen to it from Astra, like myself did.
a became a dj due to listen to lux 208 wn a was ten wa back 70s .... the big L POWER PLAY .........IT WAZ AMAZING..........AM STILL DEEJAYN TO THIS DAY AND HAV TO THANK THE BIG L..........208
Yes I find that in America its different but in the 60's if you were in New York or Chicago there were some good pop stations which I liked.WABC WMCA WINSetc.
@adriatic111 i did the same with a mediumwave walkman, it didn;t have FM on it so was forced to listen too mediumwave and picked the trongest music music station wich was the big 208.
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I'm 7 years old again listening to this. I would listen to it on my pocket transistor radio under the bed sheets when I was supposed to be sleeping.
LOVED 208 USAF GO AIRFORCE💪
Unforgettable radio station ! In the 80's I used to listen RTL 208 every evening from 8PM until 3AM in the morning. Super music, incredible jingles, famous dj's...all was great on Radio Luxembourg ! I listened it on 1440 Khz MW with its so particular sound and fading effect, in France and also in Germany, Denmark, and Sweden. How can died such a popular broadcasting program with millions of listeners everywhere in Europe !?... However thanks for all .
I used to listened Radio Luxemburg in Slovakia. In years 1962-1966 I studied on high school and every evening after studying I had a good time with this radio.
I same!1970-74from Lithuania.best radio!
When radio rocked fell asleep many a night as a child with my little battery transister radio tuned to the great 208 fading in and out as the night wore on 7PM till 3am nightly absolutely the best ever radio station that lived thanks for keeping me company and entertaining me late night luxy rocked
God bless you all at Radio Luxembourg! We heard you on the east.
Whishing you God's blessing and Peace. Good night and good morning where ever you may be.
Здравствуйте друзья, слушал эту радиостанцию на средних волнах(LW) во время службы в Советской Армии в 1980-1982 годах. У меня был маленький приёмник ,которым нельзя было пользоваться по уставу Армии. Но мне удавалось послушать эту станцию в Ленинградской области в городе Великий Новгород (Новгород).
Вот это был КАЙФ!
yeah...Luxembourg. I started listening in 1971. when living in USSR. That was main source of fresh music. Often fell asleep with my radio on my chest .
Bob Stewart is my favorite dj on radio Luxembourg its unique voice many remember this is not zabyvaemo. My best wishes from Russia.
FANTASTIC POST...great memories of the fabulous 208 in the 70s and 80s
There will be no radio like this anymore...
R.I.P. Bob Stewart.
Nothing has come anywhere near this station, used to listen to it in the 70s and 80s, remember Olly Henry and Rob Jones, even the fading in and out was great, we lived through some great times, miss it so much RIP. 208 1440
On écoutait cette station la nuit(on ne pouvait la capter que la nuit) au fond du jardin avec les premiers transistors,pour entendre les tubes anglo-saxon avec quelques semaines d'avance sur SLC.Quel bonheur!!.Une autre époque
The best Radio station ever! That was Europe! In English,German,French,Dutch...Language!
and.... Swedish!
@@berntandersson3904 in Italy R L was the soundtrack of my generation..............CIAO
Pick a language and it was probably on the air from RTL 208 at least once.
Good memories. Early eighties with an old glowing tube radio. So much great music!
radio Luxemburg is and remains the best I have listened to. the music was so good, whether it was one or two months of pop music before it came to Sweden, it was always fun to listen to, when you could get Radio Luxemburg all the time. before the broadcasts from Radio Luxemburg, it was Italy's radio broadcast where the hunt for the mafia was heard, then Radio Luxembourg started and everything was broadcast in the mid-frequency area and low wave. history of radio Luxembourg began in the 1930s and onwards. radio Luxemburg is also the only radio station that was occupied by the English and American ss-waffen during World War II. the feature in the media and advertising from radio luxembourg and the music and those who worked at radio luxembourg did a very good job and made it fun to listen to despite the interference to hear from radio luxembourg, i was always happy to hear from radio luxembourg every once, always. when Radio Luxemburg was shut down, it didn't feel fun, it became empty and quiet. I look back and you miss Radio Luxemburg every day, a radio station that is missed. even with one from Sweden who is fighting hard to get Radio Luxemburg in the hood. radio Luxembourg is missing forever.
hi Bob! i spent many nights listening RL until the close minutes! More than 25 years. But many times i got asleep and i was waken up by your voice that i'll never forget! Thanks fot it!!!
I listened to "Radio Lux" as we called it , during my Army service from 1965 to 1967. It was late night listening while on guard Duty , Nurnberg Germany. Radio was the best then!
Was great in 1971-72 !!
The legend is back.............nostalgic memory. Ciao from Sardinia
Radio Luxembourg was also listened in former SFR Yugoslavia ,60s,70 and 80,s ,especialy music charts ,the best Radio ever.
В БЪЛГАРИЯ СЕ СЛУШАШЕ СРАВНИТЕЛНО ДОБРЕ,ВЪПРЕКИ РУСКОТО РАДИО НА СЪЩАТА ЧЕСТОТА,БЛАГОДАРИМ ВИ,THANK YOU,,LUCKY LUXEMBOURG" FOR THE GREAT MEMORIES!!!😍✌️👍
Łza się w oku kręci... Słuchałem Ich niemal co noc od 1960 roku. Brakuje mi tego radia.
Miałem wtedy niezły odbiornik Blaupunkt lecz jakość dźwięku Radia Luksemburg była wprost tragiczna...
LOVED this station! Still really miss it big time, won a Sony Walkman on it and used to call in and be on the Radio. Bob Stewart was fab! Once an hour power play!
Baby Bob Stewart,the best sounding american scouser there was. One of the big 3 from Radio Caroline North!!!!
Bob is my radiohero.
I was in Ireland during August of 1972 and I used to hear this when I stayed up at my aunt Kitty and Uncle Doney's house. This was a great radio station to listen to when you were staying up late in the Emerald Isle, and, indeed all over Europe!
i could never get enough of luxy loved it fantastic
I listened to this station in Poland in 1979-1980. It was my link with the West.
So did I from 1974 also in Poland
Radio Lux, listened to it fanatically in the 80s, Estonia, former USSR
!!!!!! Super radio station pocuvana mnohymi fanusikmi popu najma v 70 rokoch z Ceskoslovenska,noc co noc i mnou samym. Konecne po styridsiatich rokoch som mohol nazivo zaspominat pri znelkach radia Luxembourg.Vdaka vsetkym tym z radia Laxik.
Petrik Fuzo mam rovnake spomienky na laxik, koniec 60-tych a cele 70-te roky, na strednych vlnach, obcas to unikalo, prlelinalo sa to sumami, ale bola to supa, pocuvat najnovsie hity, najradsej som mal international brief kontakte o 19.00 do 19.30
Hahn Air Base, Germany, early 80's, listening to Benny Brown on the night shift and Bob Stewart's close... man, the memories...
Thanks for posting this!
I took me back thirty years !!
Brings tears to a glass eye
usta listen to this station in the mid 1980s, the best station ever.radio luxemborg 208
From 72 until 77 as a teenager in Paris 208 was my best friend at night waiting for T.Rex or Slade and all the Glam rock stars ! HAPPY YEARS
I used to fall asleep to BIGL every night when I lived in England, 1976--77 ... then I had to leave Britain and go back to the States, and my life has been crap ever since ... so nice to have at least one warm fuzzy memory!
Listen to www.uniteddj.com Tony Prince, Sean Tilley, Emperor Rosko! You'll love it. It's radio the way it should be - run by Luxy DJs.
back in the dayz, when radio wasnt just a musicplayer. 208 made my youth!
Used to love radio Luxembourg
I remember the summer of 1990, the week I was looking for this famous radio station I had the time I was a holiday but no one in my circle of family or friends did not know exactly where to look for the radio. Commonly known was just a name and they listened to what was once just do not remember the details. It was only after a week I found information that Radio Luxembourg broadcasts on medium wave in 1500. Finally, the case before midnight came and I immediately knew that this is it! Really for me it was something incredible. Music buzzy, quality of sound, dj led in English .... Unfortunately, during the day it means not broadcast station emit normal radio program in German. Very often around 21.00 listened though I had bad reception. Then I did not have any information why the station just disappeared. There was no internet, satellite TV in its infancy .. After years until I learned everything and still can not understand how you can eliminate such an amazing radio station. Nowadays, I am convinced that such a radio would bring a lot of money because of the time despite all the technical innovations have not heard...
Radio Luxembourg thought that by discontinuing 208 metres MW 29th December 1991 for an Astra Satellite only future across Europe and 24h a day Shortwave transmission to Canada on 15350 kHz / 19.50 metres, that it could survive, however, they were wrong. Later in the year, CLT management all from banking and business fields started moving in and replacing RTL management, and they turned the spotlight on all of RTL's radio projects and reviewing them, and they wanted to charge each language department to hire the AM FM and SW transmitters.
John Catlett who started up Atlantic 252 for the CLT in Ireland tried to advertise the station through a coupon in various broadcast trade magazines in a bid to try and get satellite radio stations, CATV networks across Europe and in the United Kingdom, and partner FM stations the UK and Europe / student radio stations and hospital radio in the UK to carry Radio Luxembourg from Astra, but response to this was very poor and at the time CLT didn't know how many were listening to the Radio Luxembourg service on Astra, and this is what they questioned, "how many are actually listening to us on Astra in Europe and in the United Kingdom?".
Faced with this lack of listenership and poor response to the advertising campaign, CLT decided in September 1992 that they would no longer broadcast the English Service via Astra 1A satellite relay in stereo and shortwave and decided on a date of the 30th September 1992 to close it for good. From 1am UK to midnight UK on the 30th December 1992, Radio Luxembourg broadcast it's final day hurrah with 208 metres MW joining the fun from 7pm UK and at 12 midnight UK, Radio Luxembourg faded away with a German RTL Radio taking it's place.
Today there's loads of commercial radio in Europe and the UK but NONE of them sound like Radio Luxembourg, or if they do, are a very feeble mediocre parady of the station we once loved and cherished. Radio Luxembourg 1933-1992 R.I.P.
Don't ask about the relaunch of a Classic Rock Luxembourg on Digital Radio Mondiale technology via SW transmitters with a directional UK only beam - that was a total disaster : lack of receivers, frequent technical problems with the transmitters, and poor reception in the UK,. That feeble Luxy parody was forgettable at best.
I used to listen in germany and austria. always every evening the best in music radio luxembourg rewritten
Radio Luxembourg was really big back in the day. I still remember listening to Jack Jackson and Pete Murrey on Radio Luxembourg.
I used to listen to this great station in Switzerland... Good memories !
Great station. glad it brought back good memories.
да! супер! просто ностальгия какая то по тем старым далеким 80-м годам! спасибо!
Nikolai Kozlov Согласен!
Слушал эту станцию в 1981-1982 годах во время службы в СА на Аэродроме "Кречевицы" под В.Ногородом.По ночам на радиоприемник Кварц ,средние волны.
А я в Армии слушал, когда проходил службу в ГСВГ 79\81.
Причём уровень лошадиный,ловился на любой приёмник от Альпиниста, Кварц,Гиала...до Риги-103, Океан-209...
Super !!! I remember in the days of communism in Poland as well as listening to the Radio Luxembourg. Regards ...
TAK …. Te radio sie sluchalo ….
@@josephskieresz5091 ale zagłuszali lub fala znikala.
@@noraskos1 no ale lepiej sie odbierao te radio niz RWE .........
Hi Bob! I hope you'll read my comment.
I've been listening RL for more than 25 years almost each night. I first knew about it from my neighbour Georgi Zanev who had recorded each transmission of RL since the early 50's. Later he went to Vienna and he was a music conductor there. Many times i was awaken up by your voice that i'll never forget! Many thanks for it and I wish you will bring many happy hours for us again!
Never a truer words said. It really was 'The Great 208'
The man who was responsible for those early jingles of Radio Lux in the 1960s through the 1990s Ben Freedman just passed away a few weeks ago in Dallas, TX
Belle époque,nostalgie de notre jeunesse.
"The Best Music - Music at the Speed of Light - The Greatest Hits By Satellite! Radio Luxembourg!" - how I remember them from mid-90's in Denmark.
oh the memories .the best station ever
76 77 78... oh...wonderfull years whit radio luxembourg......i remember stay my house hours and hours listen sing.......i mis you all the days of my life.......
we got it in merseyside uk ...drifted in and out but we persevered!!!!
A group of us used hang around a friend's car in Ireland in the late 50's waiting for sunset and after that picking up the 208 signal.Great excitement for us all!
Radio 208 on Air from Denmark 1440kHz with 500W. My favorite Radio in the 80's in GDR
Hii Steven Gilbert and friends. I used to listen to Radio Luxemburg, from Spain, in the 60s and 70s. There was a beautiful song in which a flute sounded very softly and very sweetly. That song was a success of those decades, maybe 1970? I do not know English and I have never known who played this song. Please anyone of you remember this song? Can anyone help me by telling me who sang this beautiful melody? Many thanks.
loved the closing down song with paul burnett
good memories, listen in the Netherlands !
That' s cool! Really cool! Superstantion !!!
The voice of Luxy the great Bob Stewart much missed, In the early 70s there were just 2 pop stations Luxy & Radio 1....Mike Read, Steve Wright, Andy Peebles, David 'Kid' Jensen, Peter Powell, Paul Burnett were all at Big L & then moved to the BBC, 208 was a breeding ground for very good Disc Jockey's now you don't hear the full title nowadays
That station sign on is the most badass sign on I've ever heard.
What a montage of memories!
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYY, Happy memories when there was still great radio. :)
I heard Radio Luxembourg when I was in Ireland in 1972, and I can say that I was bowled over!
@ochshane Used to listen in Ireland too! On a little transistor radio! good times!
super stacja w latach 80
Radio Luxembourg,ROCKS GREAT BRITAIN.
giga moc..wspomnien
The 208 chart show in the early 1970’s had a great ‘Trumpet Fanfare’ Intro...... anyone else remember this?...😎
Amikor én még kissrác voltam.........!!!!!! (Budapest, HU)
One of the best radio stations I know. Even with th efading at night. I am so sorry that it is no more.
pozdrav from YUGOSLAVIA
in the fiftty,s this was the radio station to fall asleep to the batterys on my radio always ran out of power as no way for automatic turn off back then in the morning woke up to a hissing sound back in belfast n ireland in those days now living canada that the type of radio station we need in canada today thomas r,
C'est vrai qu'on l'écoutait dans le jardin. Pour ne pas agacer les parents. Ce n'était pas tellement la musique qui les gênait mais le fading. J'avais tendu un fil de cuivre de 52 mètres pour améliorer la réception mais ce n'était quand même pas fameux.
Mais on l'écoutait aussi en Néerlandais, le dimanche à midi. Ils avaient un fameux DJ : Peter Koelewijn. Puis en Allemand, "Die großen Acht" avec Camillo.
Ces gens de Luxemburg 208 avaient inventé un style de radio. Même la pub était écoutable.
The official voice of Jingles of Radio Milano International (R:M.I) THE FIRST (and the best) Radio Station in Italy for the years 70s and 80s
Could never understand how when my favourate song came on the sound would fade..
And, RLUX is already available through the Internet in the UK.
the best in the 80s
Without checking the other comments, the first jingle is Luxy circa 1989......
My teen years back to the 70ies i was a 208 fan ..Better than french radios ...( fan from France )
Great station......what a pitty there are now adays no mor English Service....
Good old 208! X.
They learned all other how to make excellent and attractive radio programming. Unfortunately those times of enthusiasm and quality are gone. I also listened RL vial transistor under my pillow :)
the comercials fantastique
so amazing! Thank you :))))) Dont you have more especially with our fav Mike Hollis? Pleaseeeeeeee
It was highest standard of musical broadcast! Still can not understand why...why such a legendary station has died?
The rot first set in when Medium Wave 1440 kHz was given the shove, the adverts were pulled and the DJs contracts were not renewed end of 1991 which was Mistake No 1.
Mistake No 2 was advertising the station in a broadcast journal to anyone who wanted to rebroadcast it and failing.
Mistake No 3 was depending on Astra satellite distribution and via low power SW transmission to Quebec in Canada at a power of 50kW using 15350 kHz / 19.50 metres in the 19 metre band.
I agree with you there. They made the biggest mistake pulling it off AM. If it had moved to another MW or LW frequency that would have been ok. Worst mistake ever was going to the astra satellite. Most people back in 91 and 92 did not even have satellite. We did not get our first satellite system until 1996. I do however think radio luxembourg would work nowadays on the internet radio so you could pick it up with a smart speaker.
@@owen671 Radio Luxembourg, set it up as RTL International, originally to target CATV systems in Scandinavia, but it got too much for them, as greedy cable operators wanted music royalty payments, which RTL declined to pay, so they turned it into a 24h Radio Luxembourg on Astra Satellite channel 13 RTL-4 11.391 GHz H partially scrambled Luxcrypt Stereo 7.38 / 7.56 MHz, and the reason why many cable TV system operators would not carry Radio Luxembourg from Astra 1A is because the encryption would knock out the audio on the vision carrier when it kicked in on certain programmes.
To listen at home, it was a simple matter of connecting the stereo phono outputs of your satellite receiver with stereo phono leads to a spare input on your hi-fi, usually AUX or Line In and selecting Stereo 2 on your receiver.
I would've used a stereo pair of sub-carriers on RTL Television Astra Channel 2 11.229 GHz V PAL Clear to make this a lot easier for cable systems to tune in and carry in stereo from the Astra 1A satellite to their subscribers and make it easier for direct to home Astra Satellite dish owners to receive and listen to.
I would have also advertised the Radio Luxembourg satellite service on free to air UK and European Astra satellite TV and radio services too, to get instant recognition for it.
The reason RTL got rid of 1440 kHz Medium Wave end of 1991 is because of the fading and unpleasant distortion, which was a big turn-off to advertisers, not to mention the half a million pounds cost of hiring the transmitter and paying a colossal hefty energy bill that outlet consumed, also the intern between RTL and CLT to hire that frequency was at an end too.
I would have also carried Radio Luxembourg at night over the Atlantic 252 LW service after 7pm and modified the transmitter to give an omnidirectional beam pattern to Ireland, the UK and continental Europe keeping the same 500 kW power at night, and said "stuff Algeriia".....….
I would've also explored other avenues to being in revenue -
(a) looked at advertising being available in European languages throughout Astra 1A's footprint to advertisers,
(b) buy in paid for programming such as religious programmes from time to time,
and (c) hire airtime to organisations on 15350 kHz SW to bring in some additional cash as well plus broadcasting sponsored programmes.
@@anthonyperkins7556 Thank you for letting me know why they quit MW .
Back in 1991-92 It just was just not practical to use Astra satellite for radio as it just was too much trouble for most people to have to listen too it this way. People wanted an easy way to listen too it and not to have to invest in an expensive satellite system. Back then we all just switched over to atlantic 252 instead.
I do agree with you that they should have just moved Luxembourg over to LW 252
I still listen to many far off radio stations on my smart speaker
The main question I would like to ask you is do you think radio Luxembourg would work today on internet radio if the English service came back? (This would be for alexa and google home smart speakers)
@@owen671 Internet would be interesting, but not all areas of the UK have decent broadband connections or mobile phone reception for these devices, and I still think satellite should be an option i.e. in stereo on a Pan European beam using Astra 2G as it has the biggest Pan European beam @ 28.2 degrees East through Sky / Freesat as it's affordable now and not the expensive gamble it was back in the day plus I'd talk to Virgin Media about carrying this satellite feed in the UK via the cable system they have, and partner radio stations across Europe as well as cable systems in reach of the footprint around Europe on their programme service, and I'd look into additionally carrying a DAB+ stereo feed from the Astra 2 outlet through the Sound Digital Limited (SDL) multiplex from the satellite across the UK.
Satellite radio from Astra's launch in 1989 did exist and was indeed carried on some cable systems in the UK and Europe, and some did make the effort to listen to it from Astra, like myself did.
remember it fading in and out of my radio when I was under the bed sheets
RADIO LUXEMBOURG !!!!!!
Great 208!
R.l.P Bob Stewart
fantastic!!
a became a dj due to listen to lux 208 wn a was ten wa back 70s .... the big L POWER PLAY .........IT WAZ AMAZING..........AM STILL DEEJAYN TO THIS DAY AND HAV TO THANK THE BIG L..........208
Super super....
RIP Bob Steward
Yes I find that in America its different but in the 60's if you were in New York or Chicago there were some good pop stations which I liked.WABC WMCA WINSetc.
Is it possible to send somthing abaut radio luxembourg at xmas ..... and in the new year
first real radio of... europe union
uuuh I remember that radio Lux :)
The best radiostation in sweden at the 70`´s
@adriatic111
i did the same with a mediumwave walkman, it didn;t have FM on it so was forced to listen too mediumwave and picked the trongest music music station wich was the big 208.
you know that in 70s and 80s an italian radio station used magic Bob Stewart's voice for their jingle?