RTL - Germany's hit radio

RTL - Germany's hit radio
Radio transmitter ( private law )
reception	analog terrestrial ( VHF , cable , satellite )
Reception area	Germany Luxembourg
Start of transmission	July 15, 1957
owner	RTL Group
executive Director	Frank Jaeger
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RTL - Germany's Hit-Radio (formerly RTL Radio , previously Radio Luxemburg ) is a German-language radio station that is produced in Berlin and broadcasts throughout Luxembourg and Germany via cable, satellite (throughout Europe) and, in some areas, also via FM. According to Media Analysis 2015 Radio I , RTL Radio reached around 515,000 listeners per working day and thus had a Germany-wide market share of 0.7%. The music format was Major AC until June 30, 2015 , and has been Hot AC since then .

history

origin

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Radio Luxembourg or today's RTL - Germany's hit radio originated from Radio Luxembourg (now RTL), which was launched on March 15, 1933 as the first private broadcaster in Europe with a French-language program. After the liberation of Luxembourg in September 1944, the station was the official mouthpiece of the Allied headquarters. The head of the German service was Hans Habe . Because of the ban on commercial radio in countries such as the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and the Federal Republic of Germany, this program broadcast from Luxembourg until the 1980s, with programs in several languages. The English-language broadcasts began in 1933 and were largely contested by the advertising industry , which had its own production facilities and presenters to present its products extensively. In the south of England and Ireland, "Radio Luxembourg" positioned itself as a competitor to the BBC and was considered a forerunner of pirate radio because of its unapproved status, broadcast from abroad . Also in 1933 the “Flemish Program” of Radio Luxembourg started, which was broadcast in Dutch from Brussels. Since 1966 Radio Luxembourg, which has become independent as a pure French-speaking radio, has officially been called RTL .

1950s

Radio Luxembourg's German-language program, which was extremely popular in the 1950s and 1960s, began on July 15, 1957 with the presenter Pierre Nilles (1923–2000), who called himself Peter Perleberg in the program, with the words “Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear listeners, you are now listening to a test program from Radio Luxemburg in German. Starting today, we will broadcast a light music program every day from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Here Radio Luxembourg is on the medium wave 208 meters ”. It was broadcast on the medium wave frequency 208 m / 1439 kHz (later 1440 kHz) and on the short wave frequency 6090 kHz in the 49 m band. It was produced in the Villa Louvigny . On the other hand, the English-language program “2-0-8” on Radio Luxembourg started at 7:00 p.m. on medium wave 208 m / 1439 kHz. Airtime of the German-language program was initially one hour from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m., but in November 1957 it was extended to four hours. Before that, the Flemish program broadcasted, in the evening the English one. VHF channel 33 (97.0 MHz) was added in December 1962, so that the initially three happy waves to Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland and North Rhine-Westphalia can now be received on VHF daily from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. were. As early as January 1, 1960, the medium wave was amplified 208 meters to 600 kilowatts. VHF channel 6 (88.9 MHz) was added as the fourth happy wave in April 1967. Since 1957 the instrumental title Belle of the Ball by Leroy Anderson has been used as the signature melody and after ten years it was replaced on September 27, 1967 by Happy Luxemburg by James Last . In addition to this station-related identification melody, individual program series such as the hit parade also had their own identification melodies.

One of the first German presenters was Lilibert (Elisabeth Bertram), wife of the hit producer Hans Bertram . In April 1958, Camillo Felgen came to the station and became chief spokesman for the German program. On April 6, 1958, Felgen first broadcast a hit parade in German. The first lions (a 2.5 kilogram trophy in gold, silver and bronze) from Radio Luxembourg were awarded on April 30, 1959 in the Grugahalle in Essen.

1960s and 1970s

In those parts of Germany where Radio Luxembourg's four happy waves could be received due to its proximity to Luxembourg (especially in the west and south-west of the Federal Republic), the station achieved cult status among younger listeners. Since the otherwise unrivaled public radio stations of the ARD only broadcast a very conservative program with higher cultural demands and almost no pop music, RTL-Radio Luxemburg was  the only way for them - alongside BFBS , AFN , CFN or pirate stations - to hear new pop music . Due to the growing success, the German afternoon program was quickly expanded into a full-day program. As early as the late 1960s, German programs broadcast from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. and from 12 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. on medium wave, which reached far into Germany, and which was boosted to 1,200 kilowatts in 1968 and thus became one of the most powerful medium wave transmitters in Europe; from 6 a.m. to 1 a.m. it could also be received in the immediate vicinity of the Grand Duchy via VHF. More than 15 million German listeners followed the program, which generated around 40 million  DM in advertising income. Meanwhile, the Flemish program shrank to three hours in the morning (9 a.m. to 12 p.m.) and finally to an hour and a half or, in the 1970s, only half an hour in the early evening (6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. or 7 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.) before the continued very much successful English program, with speakers such as B. Tony Prince. High ratings in the German program on Saturdays were achieved primarily by “Die große Acht” (moderated by Camillo Felgen, Frank Elstner - from January 14, 1964, head of the German-language program from May 1973 - Jochen Pützenbacher (from 1973 chief spokesman), Viktor Worms ) and on Sundays the “Hit Parade” (moderated by Camillo Felgen, Frank Elstner, Oliver Spiecker , Thomas Gottschalk , Jörg Ebner, among others ). To determine the "Big Eight", large record stores in the German distribution area were alternately called live on the show and asked about their single sales hit parade. One could observe in these shops that a tally sheet was actually kept when buying a record. In the “Hit Parade”, the listeners voted by postcard or, in selected savings banks, by voting box and voting slip in North Rhine-Westphalia . As an incentive, prizes were offered, the winners of which were drawn in the program. In the spring of 1968, Camillo Felgen left the station because he wanted to devote himself to television.

From 1969 to 1972 the station organized the Grand Prix RTL International , a music competition based on the Grand Prix Eurovision of the EBU .

In 1977, Radio Luxemburg started Kindertage, an annual program where children could do the program from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. The then 12-year-old Luxembourg presenter and actress Désirée Nosbusch made her first public appearances.

In 1979 Wolfgang Rositzka invented the sketch series Die Puhvogels , which he played together with Axel Fitzke.

1980s

In September 1983, Radio Luxemburg announced the establishment of a German-language TV program called RTLplus , whose test broadcasts began on October 3, 1983. The official start was on January 2nd, 1984. This became possible because the Federal Constitutional Court had cleared the way for private broadcasting with the 3rd broadcasting judgment . On January 1, 1988, the former subsidiary RTLplus moved to Cologne in order to be present on the emerging German media market.

On May 2, 1988, RTL-Radio Luxemburg was first renamed RTL Hörfunk and finally restarted on October 1, 1990 under program manager Arno Müller, following the example of the American Hitradios, it focused on 25- to 45-year-olds and renamed RTL Radio . Among the reasons for the reform, Müller cited the poor marketability of the previous, hit-heavy program. At the same time, the entire moderation was rejuvenated. Arno Müller left RTL Radio after only one year and became program director of 104.6 RTL in Berlin . He also moderates the show Arno and the morning crew today, which is broadcast on this very station and today on RTL - Germany's hit radio.

1990s

In 1990, the network and regional program RTL Radio Baden-Württemberg was created in Stuttgart, which also supplied other local broadcasters in Baden-Württemberg and North Rhine-Westphalia with program routes. The innovative program, in which the local identifiers and advertisements could be triggered by remote control, was discontinued in 1994 because politics did not grant a future for national private broadcasting. Well-known voices from the time in Stuttgart's Heusteigstrasse include Jürgen Kaul , now with Bayern 1 ; Frank Bluhm , today antenne 1 or Kai Karsten , successful today at SWR3 . In contrast, the Berlin city radio 104.6 RTL , founded in 1991, still broadcasts today.

On November 2, 1992, RTL Radio became a pure oldies broadcaster with the rule of thumb that an oldie is anything “that is 14 years and older”, so that every year on January 1 a new year was added. Accordingly, the 80s were added from 1994, whereby the previous slogan The greatest hits of the 50s, 60s and 70s - RTL, the oldies broadcaster! to RTL RADIO - The greatest oldies! has been.

In-house sketch series such as Die Staumeiers or Das Chaoskrankenhaus ran across Germany on other radio stations with the voices of RTL radio presenters (for example as Die Radio Hamburg Staumeiers ), without the origin of the sketches being pointed out to other stations. The sketch series spaceship special price (with the figures Capt. Cork, Mr. Spit and the notoriously drunken surgeon Pulle) went on RTL radio during the time when oldies station for years before Michael "Bully" Herbig the series Our (T) spaceship in his Bullyparade introduced .

In the summer of 1996, RTL - Der Oldiesender renamed itself again to RTL RADIO after four years .

2002-2015

Logo until June 30, 2015

In December 2002, those in charge moved away from the pure oldies channel and since then, until June 30, 2015, they have been broadcasting oldies as well as the best hits of the 80s, 90s and today. The slogan of RTL RADIO was first: The best hits with feeling , later he was: The best hits of all time .

In addition to music, the program also included news from all over the world and Germany's weather, entertaining sections, information on current events and competitions. The moderation team before the relaunch of RTL Radio in July 2015 included Julia Siegel, Kirsten Frintrop, Alex John, Helmer Litzke, Andree Werner and Andreas Radtke. The editorial team includes a. Frank Jaeger, Christian Runne, Mikael Hoffmann and Peter Fath.

After a first wave of layoffs at the turn of the year 2013/2014, the few remaining RTL RADIO employees were informed on February 7, 2014 that the station was moving to Berlin and that its studios in Luxembourg were to be given up. All eight permanent employees were offered a move to Berlin, the remaining freelancers should not be employed any longer. On July 1, 2015, after almost 58 years, the story of the German-language RTL program from Luxembourg ended.

From January 1, 2005 to May 1, 2011, RTL RADIO broadcast a digital test program on the shortwave frequency 6095 kHz and on the medium wave frequency 1440 kHz. On the medium wave frequency 1440 kHz from the Marnach broadcaster , RTL - Germany's hit radio was last from 5:00 to 5:30, 6:00 to 8:00, 13:00 to the shutdown of the frequency on December 31, 2015 1:10 p.m. and 5:55 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. From 5:30 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. and from 7:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., the programs of religious organizers, primarily those of the Swiss Missionary Society, were disseminated. For this purpose, the RTL program was interrupted with the message "RTL RADIO - you are now listening to the religious program". From 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and from 8:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. the program was broadcast by Radio China International . The medium-wave transmitter was switched off from 1:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m. and from 1:10 p.m. to 5:55 p.m.

In addition to the RTL RADIO program, a program called RTL 1440 could also be received via satellite until December 31, 2015 , which, with the exception of Radio China International, corresponds to the medium wave program with religious broadcasts. In contrast to the medium wave program, RTL 1440 was broadcast around the clock. The China Radio International broadcasts were not broadcast on RTL 1440, but exclusively on medium wave.

From December 1, 2008 to December 23, 2013, RTL RADIO broadcast on FM frequencies 93.3 and 97.0 under the name RTL Radio 93.3 and 97.0 (from 2012: RTL RADIO - The best hits in the best mix) around the Watch its own program. This program had no programmatic connection to RTL RADIO. The program included a more modern “Hot-AC” repertoire with music from the 1980s to the present day, information from all over the world and from the Greater Region, event tips for the Greater Region, regional sports information and special programs, e.g. B. "TBB Trier - Basketball live" with sports reporter and TBB hall spokesman Chris Schmidt or "People from our Greater Region" with well-known personalities from the broadcasting area. The morning show was called Jans Morgen , from January 7, 2013 it was renamed Jan and Julia am Morgen . It was broadcast on working days between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m. and moderated by Jan Seifert (Julia Siegel since 2013). In mid-December 2013, it became known that this program was discontinued on December 23, 2013 and that the nationwide “RTL RADIO - the best hits of all time” was switched on again from 7 p.m. A decision that met with a largely negative response from RTL RADIO's regional listeners.

The 50th anniversary of RTL Radio Luxembourg

On July 15, 2007 at 3:00 p.m., exactly 50 years after Radio Luxemburg went online (1957), up to 350 former and current employees celebrated the big anniversary of the Four Happy Waves . The celebration continued after a meeting on the Kirchberg in the RTL Group headquarters from 8:00 pm on the Moselle steamer "MS Roude Léiw" in Remich.

The wife of Camillo Felgen , Marianna, was awarded an "extraordinary" golden RTL lion for the life's work of her husband, who died on July 16, 2005. This award was presented by the RTL-RADIO director at the time, Holger Richter.

today

After severe listener losses (2.16 million listeners were reached per working day in 2001, in 2015 there were only 515,000), it was announced at the end of June 2015 that RTL Radio would be relaunched on July 1, 2015 at 6 a.m. It has been broadcast from Berlin ever since . At the same time, the music format was switched to Hot AC. The broadcasting of RTL - Germany's hit radio started with the broadcast Arno and the morning crew , which is moderated by Arno Müller. A regional editorial office, which produces the weather and the traffic service for the VHF frequencies 93.3 and 97.0, will remain in Luxembourg . Helmer Litzke moved to Berlin as the only moderator ; the remaining moderators left the station on June 30, 2015 at their own request. The new program consists mainly of voice tracking ; the program structure is also taken over from sister station 104.6 RTL . The relaunch led to major protests by letter, telephone and email, as well as on the program's Facebook pages. The broadcaster justified its approach and cited the decreasing number of listeners as the reason for the change. Alternatively, consideration was given to discontinuing the station completely; however, it was decided to relaunch. In response to popular requests, RTL - Germany's Hit Radio - launched the web radio offshoot RTL - The best hits of all time with the old music format on September 16, 2015. Non-stop music is broadcast without moderation. The messages at ten before are taken over by the main program.

At the beginning of July 2020 it was announced that RTL will digitally broadcast its radio program nationwide in the program package of "Antenne Deutschland" with the start of the second DAB + - Bundesmux from October 2020.

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Directors

Period	Directors
1957 to 1964	Claude Fischer
1964 to 1973	Helmut Stoldt
1973 to 1983	Frank Elstner
1983 to 1990	Helmut Thoma
1990 to 1999	Bernt von zur Mühlen
1999 to 2000	Alain Berwick
2000 to 2014	Holger Richter
since 2014	vacant

Program manager

The program manager takes over the planning of the program.

Period	Program manager
1988 to 1990	Hubert Terheggen
1990 to 1991	Arno Mueller
1991 to 1995	Bernd Britten
1995 to 2014	Holger Richter
since 2014	vacant

Station manager

The station manager takes over the day-to-day commercial business and supports the director in his activities.

Period	Program manager
1993 to 1999	Jean Steffen
1999 to 2014	Holger Richter
since September 1, 2014	Frank Jaeger

Studios

Radio Luxemburg broadcast mainly from Studio 4 of the Villa Louvigny in the Parc Municipal in Luxemburg . Studio Bonn was founded on January 2nd, 1976, followed in July 1981 by a studio in Düsseldorf- Oberkassel (studio manager: Max Schautzer ), in which the programs "Mister Morning" and "Die große Acht" were recorded in particular. The traffic warning radio from RTL-Radio Luxemburg, live from the Düsseldorf State Ministry of the Interior, was considered one of the best and was even praised by the "Stern" at the time. Supported by the Ford works in Cologne, equipped with car telephones that were operated at the transmitter's expense, drivers deployed by the DRK reported live on the transmitter from the autobahns about traffic jams and obtained more information directly from the local police.

Events

At its peak, Radio Luxemburg had more than 21 million listeners a day, mainly in Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia . With the “white car” from RTL-Radio Luxemburg, you were there every month with promotional competitions at shopping centers, hypermarkets and supermarkets. The advertising industry placed all of the spots and competitions on Radio Luxemburg's Four Happy Waves through the IPA advertising agency in Frankfurt am Main.

RTL-Radio Luxemburg also had its own radio and TV club, which was called “Hallo RTL” and whose club magazine has been published free of charge every month since October 1977. RTL-Radio Luxemburg was also regularly represented at the Düsseldorf trade fair “boot” and at the Berlin radio exhibition with a stand and live broadcasts. The RTL lion ceremony attracted every year over 15,000 listeners in the Dortmunder Westfalenhalle the award ceremony. Other popular programs were the “Funkkantine” and the “Fröhliche Wecker” as well as “RTL 12 o'clock noon”, the “RTL Torparade” and “Hits from the school desk” as well as “A day like no other”.

Moderators

The most popular and well-known presenters of the Four Happy Waves were Camillo Felgen, "Franz" Enno Spielhagen , "Ferdy" Waldemar Müller , "Frank" Timm Elstner , Dieter "Thomas" Heck , Alf Wolf , Helga Guitton , "Rolf" Wilfried Röpke , Jochen Pützenbacher , "Metty" Matthias Krings , Christian Simon, Lou van Burg , Thomas Gottschalk , Monika Georges , "Brigitte" Tamara Kiefer, Marion Preuss , Désirée Nosbusch , Anke Engelke , Rolf Zuckowski , Georg Bossert , Reinhard Münchenhagen , Barbara Gansauge , Klaus A. . "Charly" Heller , Felix Parbs , Kristina Hertel , Achim Graul , Rolf Röpke , Klaus Bungert, Rainer Holbe , Patrick Lynen , "Uncle Acki" Axel Fitzke , Benno Weber , Hugo-Egon Balder and Inga Abel ( meal ), Biggi Lechtermann and Tommi Ohrner , Björn-Hergen Schimpf , Edy Hildebrandt , Oliver Spiecker , Günter Meyer, Michael Wirbitzky , Thomas Germann , Viktor Worms , Carlheinz Hollmann , Iff Bennett , Martin Schwarze, Peter Trunk, Wolfgang Rositzka, Hans Meiser , "Ulrich" Ulf Posé , Heinz Siebeneicher , Willy Knupp , Adelaide "Haidy" Jacobi, Walter Freiwald , Fritz Walter , Michael Daub , Geert Müller-Gerbes , Dave Christian and Jürgen "Jörg" Ebner .

In the summer months during vacation time, u. a. also Ulla Norden , Jürgen Marcus and Volker Lechtenbrink as representatives. James Last produced the theme song Happy Luxemburg especially for the Four Happy Waves in 1967 . The studio orchestra Peter Orloff produced the indicative for the program RTL 12:00 noon . In retrospect, for some of them, their work at the Four Happy Waves of RTL-Radio Luxemburg turned out to be a springboard to their later radio and television careers in Germany. It was only when the ARD broadcasters in the broadcast area, above all Südwestfunk and its SWF3 program, discovered younger listeners that RTL-Radio Luxemburg's popularity waned.

The cheerful waves of Radio Luxembourg with their casual style of moderation, the focus on pop music and a low proportion of news were unique on the German-speaking radio market in the 1960s and initiated or reformed numerous radio programs, both inside and outside their broadcast area, such as WDR2 ( Early 1970s) and shortly afterwards SWF3 (Baden-Baden) and Ö3 in Austria.

reception

The program broadcast for Germany by RTL - Germany's Hit-Radio (rtlradio.de) can be received via the following channels:

• ASTRA 19.2, digital transponder: 111, frequency: 12.604 GHz
• Germany-wide in the cable networks.
• via the RTL RADIO app (iOS, Android)
• from October 2020 on DAB + in the second DAB federal mux at around 71 transmitter locations in Germany

The transmission area for the VHF programs (93.3 and 97.0) is the greater region around the Quattropole city ​​network of Luxembourg, Trier, Metz and Saarbrücken. You can also receive it in Wallonia and the German-speaking community of Belgium . The reception area extends from Verdun in the west to Mainz in the east as well as Cologne in the north and Nancy in the south.

In the 1970s, radio receivers were launched that had a green Radio Luxembourg button. By pressing this button, the receiver was immediately set to the frequency of the transmitter.

Transmitters

The RTL RADIO broadcasting systems are in Dudelange and Hosingen ( VHF ). From 2008 to 2013, the FM frequencies were used by the newly created RTL Radio 93.3 and 97.0 . Between 2008 and 2013, RTL RADIO was only broadcast terrestrially via medium wave. The Marnach transmitter was shut down on December 31, 2015. The transmitter system was dismantled / dismantled between February and March 2016.

Web links

• www.rtlradio.de - Germany program

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ The best-known example of these commercials, which characterize the current program, was The League of Ovaltineys (for Ovaltine), broadcast every Sunday at 5.30 p.m. from 1934, and with war interruptions until the 1950s. See the Wikipedia article on Ovaltine .
3. ↑ Andrew Crisell: An Introductory History of British Broadcasting . Chapman & Hall, 2002, p. 47 f.
4. ↑ ^{a b} RTL Radio Luxemburg Chronik, 1957 to today. In: Radio Journal. Retrieved December 19, 2015 . 
5. ↑ Chronicle of the 50th anniversary 2007. (No longer available online.) RTL Radio, p. 4 , archived from the original on September 18, 2013 ; Retrieved December 21, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ ^{a b} Documentation on Radio Luxemburg, from 4:50 minutes. RTL Radio Luxembourg, accessed on December 19, 2015 . 
7. ↑ Chronicle of the 50th anniversary 2007. (No longer available online.) RTL Radio, p. 9 , archived from the original on September 20, 2013 ; Retrieved December 21, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ Chronicle of the 50th anniversary 2007. (No longer available online.) RTL Radio, p. Page 14 , archived from the original on September 19, 2013 ; Retrieved December 21, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ^ Chronicle of the 50th anniversary 2007. (No longer available online.) RTL Radio, p. 12 , archived from the original on September 20, 2013 ; Retrieved December 21, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ ^{a b} Chronicle of the 50th anniversary in 2007. (No longer available online.) RTL Radio, p. 19 , archived from the original on September 19, 2013 ; Retrieved December 21, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ↑ Chronicle of the 50th anniversary 2007. (No longer available online.) RTL Radio, p. 15 , archived from the original on September 20, 2013 ; Retrieved December 21, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
12. ↑ With twice the strength . In: Der Spiegel . No. 37 , 1968, pp. 126 ( online ).
13. ↑ Chronicle of the 50th anniversary 2007. (No longer available online.) RTL Radio, p. 23 , archived from the original on December 24, 2013 ; Retrieved December 21, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
14. ↑ ^{a b} Chronicle of the 50th anniversary 2007. (No longer available online.) RTL Radio, p. 27 , archived from the original on September 14, 2014 ; Retrieved December 21, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
15. ↑ Radio Journal: Wolfgang Rositzka: The Puhvogel family - »Harmless jokes turned into successful comedy«. Retrieved December 19, 2015 . 
16. ^ Radio Journal: Interview with Wolfgang Rositzka. Retrieved December 19, 2015 . 
17. ^ Chronicle of the 50th anniversary in 2007. (No longer available online.) RTL Radio, p. 36 , archived from the original on December 24, 2013 ; Retrieved December 21, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
18. ↑ Interview with Arno Müller from the early 90s. RTL Radio, accessed on December 19, 2015 . 
19. ↑ ^{a b c d} Chronicle of the 50th anniversary in 2007. RTL Radio, p. 38 , archived from the original on September 13, 2014 ; Retrieved December 21, 2013 . 
20. ↑ Luxemburger Tageblatt: RTL-Radio moves to Berlin. February 7, 2014, accessed February 7, 2014 . 
21. ↑ Luxemburger Wort: RTL Radio discontinues window programs for the Greater Region. December 3, 2013, accessed December 11, 2013 . 
22. ↑ Luxemburger Tageblatt: RTL RADIO from July 1st: Arno & the morning crew throughout Germany. June 30, 2015, accessed December 19, 2015 . 
23. ↑ Statement on the sender's Facebook page
24. ↑ Stream
25. ↑ Posted September 16, 2015 on the sender's Facebook page
26. ↑ These radio programs start all over Germany on DAB +. In: RADIO SCENE. July 10, 2020, accessed on July 26, 2020 (German). 
27. ↑ Chronicle of the 50th anniversary 2007 ( Memento from September 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
28. ↑ Holger Richter leaves RTL RADIO. In: radio scene. August 9, 2014, accessed August 13, 2014 . 
29. ^ Chronicle of the 50th anniversary 2007. (No longer available online.) RTL Radio, p. 25 , archived from the original on December 24, 2013 ; Retrieved December 21, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
30. ↑ Chronicle of the 50th anniversary 2007. (No longer available online.) RTL Radio, p. 31 , archived from the original on December 24, 2013 ; Retrieved December 21, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
31. ↑ Frances Monsheimer: RTL Radio changes frequency to Astra 19.2 degrees east. Digital television, accessed December 19, 2015 . 
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Coordinates: 49 ° 38 '15.9 "  N , 6 ° 9' 49.4"  E