radio 100,7 is a
public service
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radio station in the
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
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. Broadcasting in the
Luxembourgish language
Luxembourgish ( ; also ''Luxemburgish'', ''Luxembourgian'', ''Letzebu(e)rgesch''; Luxembourgish: ) is a West Germanic language that is spoken mainly in Luxembourg. About 400,000 people speak Luxembourgish worldwide.
As a standard form of th ...
, the station's principal focus is on culture and information, although entertainment – in the form of a relatively wide spectrum of music, with the accent on
classical – also features prominently.
History
Established under the provisions of Luxembourg's Electronic Media Act of July 1991, and run by the Établissement de Radiodiffusion Socioculturelle du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg (ERSL),
the station began broadcasting on 19 September 1993 as ''honnert, 7: de soziokulturelle radio'' ("one hundred point seven: the socio-cultural radio station"). The name, derived from its allocated FM frequency of 100.7 MHz, was changed in 2002 to the somewhat snappier "Radio 100,7".
Radio 100,7 has been a member of the
European Broadcasting Union since 1997 and co-operates closely with other European public-service broadcasters.
Programming
On weekdays, the station offers a 1-hour English-language program,
Time Out', presented by Benny Brown, which starts at 6:35 pm, with a roundup of the day’s main national news, and a mix of music that is rarely found on the radio nowadays (
Blues,
Rock,
Country
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,
Indie
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Arts, entertainment, and media
Gaming
*Independent video game development, video games created without financial backing from large companies
*Indie game, any game (board ...
Rock).
In 2015, the radio launched for the first time in Luxembourg a competition for original radio plays. In the spring of 2016, a second contest started under the theme
Social media and their impact on time and culture.
See also
*
List of radio stations in Luxembourg
References
External links
Official website(in Luxembourgish)
{{European Broadcasting Union Members
European Broadcasting Union members
Publicly funded broadcasters
Radio stations established in 1993
Radio stations in Luxembourg
1993 establishments in Luxembourg
Luxembourgish-language mass media