Do you realise, night after night, when you listen to the transmissions from Europe’s greatest commercial radio station, that they come from such a palatial building in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg as shown in the photo above? The entrance has the grandeur of a Royal Palace. On the top floor is Tele-Luxembourg, the country’s own television service. There are splendidly equipped studios, a vast record library and a magnificent concert hall. Set in a pine wood, the building is a piece of history but at the same time is up to the minute utilising the most modern broadcasting techniques on a large scale, with transmissions in many European languages.
Since Radio Luxembourg is one of the largest commercial broadcasting organisations in the world, no expense has been spared in ensuring that the equipment being used to provide you with your entertainment is of the highest quality available. The sound broadcasting transmitters at Marnach and Junglinster are constantly being modernised, and frequent improvements take place in a continuous effort to produce the best possible reception.
The television transmitter situated at Dudelange, like the sound transmitters, consists of equipment manufactured in Germany, France, great Britain and many other countries, because it has always been the policy of the station’s administrators to buy the finest equipment in the world quite irrespective of the country of its origin.
Although Luxembourg is a small country the transmitters are all staffed by local personnel and all are highly trained for these specialist duties. The actual studios and administrative buildings are situated in the capital city of Luxembourg, and there again, the facilities are second to none. The concert hall is one of the most impressive used by any broadcasting organisation in the world and all the studios provide excellent working conditions for artists, announcers and technical staff. I hope this brochure will paint an interesting picture for you of the scene at the other end of the microphone at 208 - the station of the stars.
GEOFFREY EVERITT General Manager
Villa Louvigny in Luxembourg, the impressive headquarters of a vast European network of sound and television broadcasting
